Purpose of role
As an Area Sales Manager you will be responsible for providing leadership and guidance to sales officers in a specific territory to achieve shared sales targets and goals.
Responsibilities
- Manage train and provide overall guidance to the sales team of an assigned territory.
- Set reasonable sales targets to be achieved by the sales team.
- Monitor the performance of the sales team and motivate members to meet or exceed sales targets.
- Collect customer feedback and provide updates to senior management.
- Travel to potential and existing customers within an assigned sales area to present company offerings and build brand awareness.
- Utilize outbound telephone calls email communications and facetoface meetings with customers and distributors to close sales.
- Develop and sustain longterm relationships with customers.
- Implement a sales management process to assist the sales team in identifying and prioritizing key customers and prospects.
- Allocate areas to sales representatives.
- Develop sales strategies and setting targets.
- Compile and analyze sales figures and possibly deal with some major customer accounts yourself.
- Collect customer feedback and market research.
- Report to senior managers RSM.
Qualifications :
Requirements:
- A bachelors degree in marketing business management or related field is preferred.
- Professional qualifications and proof of professional training is an added advantage.
- Proven sales experience: FMCG (Tomato Paste and Seasonings) sales experience is compulsory
- Proven track record of meeting sales quotas.
- Proficient in all MS Office Suite.
- Excellent management leadership and organizational skills.
- Strong analytical and problemsolving skills.
- Outstanding negotiation and consultative sales skills.
- Effective communication skills.
- Exceptional customer service skills
- Previous industry experience
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime