Job Description
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Research and identify new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets
- Scan the market and segment by industry sectors to develop and implement penetration strategies to enter newly identified markets.
- Develop new sales areas and improving sales through various methods
- Contacting potential clients to establish a business relationship and meet with them.
- Research the latest in the business industry and creating new opportunities to expand business.
- Research prospective accounts in target markets
- Pursuing leads and moving them through the sales cycle
- Collaborate with production and operations team to ensure requirements are met, such as sales numbers and profit goals.
- Think strategically - seeing the bigger picture and setting aims and objectives in order to develop and improve the business.
- Discuss promotional strategy and activities with the marketing department.
- Attend seminars, conferences and events where appropriate.
- Carry out sales forecasts and analysis and present your findings to senior management/the board of directors.
- Investigate any lost sales, recommend and implement actions to salvage and regain such accounts.
- Carry out all necessary data entry and documentations to ensure the smooth running of the company ERP and QMS
- Send weekly and monthly sales report comprising of actual sales versus budget, sales collection, outstanding, market intelligence.
- Ensure collection of all sales payments including WHT, VAT receipts and any other document necessary to complete the sales cycle.
- Collate and analyze drum sales data, price survey and generate periodic sales reports for the attention of the GM, Sales & Technical
- Perform other duties as assigned by the General Manager, Sales & Technical.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
- Research and identify new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets
- Scan the market and segment by industry sectors to develop and implement penetration strategies to enter newly identified markets.
- Develop new sales areas and improving sales through various methods
- Contacting potential clients to establish a business relationship and meet with them.
- Research the latest in the business industry and creating new opportunities to expand business.
- Research prospective accounts in target markets
- Pursuing leads and moving them through the sales cycle
- Collaborate with production and operations team to ensure requirements are met, such as sales numbers and profit goals.
- Think strategically - seeing the bigger picture and setting aims and objectives in order to develop and improve the business.
- Discuss promotional strategy and activities with the marketing department.
- Attend seminars, conferences and events where appropriate.
- Carry out sales forecasts and analysis and present your findings to senior management/the board of directors.
- Investigate any lost sales, recommend and implement actions to salvage and regain such accounts.
- Carry out all necessary data entry and documentations to ensure the smooth running of the company ERP and QMS
- Send weekly and monthly sales report comprising of actual sales versus budget, sales collection, outstanding, market intelligence.
- Ensure collection of all sales payments including WHT, VAT receipts and any other document necessary to complete the sales cycle.
- Collate and analyze drum sales data, price survey and generate periodic sales reports for the attention of the GM, Sales & Technical
- Perform other duties as assigned by the General Manager, Sales & Technical.
Key Performance Indicators:
- Percentage of sales target met.
- Number of customer complaints resolved.
- Total customer service downtime recorded
- Customer visitation report frequency and quality
- Timeliness and accuracy of reports, data and/or information
- Number of new clients recruited
- Increase in business with existing clients
- Sales collections and VAT/WHT remittance
- Competitor’s intelligence and market reports
Minimum Qualifications
- A First Degree or its equivalent in Chemistry or Engineering
- 3 - 5 years work experience.
Salary
N300,00 - N350,000 monthly.