Responsibilities:

1. Building and maintaining excellent relations with clients

2. Identifying business opportunities through direct contact with prospective distributors, wholesalers and retailers.

3. Maintaining good relationships with clients by providing support, information, and guidance;

4. Help clients by researching and proposing new marketing strategies to improve sales, service and profits

5. Assist store owners in merchandising and sales strategy formulation

6. Getting customer feedback on product improvements and new product recommendations

7. Conducting regular market research to keep up with the latest trends, prices and promotions in the region.

8. Help make and collect orders from both new and old clients and processing them with production

9. Assist in the delivery of products and collection of cash & cheque payments

10. Preparing daily sales reports

11. Check stock levels from current clients

12. Attend trade shows and travel to any location within the region to meet clients as needed

Key Skills

• Of very high integrity and honesty
• Ability to communicate oral & written effectively with both internal & external customers
• Ability to multi-task with effective results
• Excellent problem solving, time management and organizational skills required
• Ability to learn new skills and technology
• Ability to demonstrate professionalism & diplomacy to include telephone etiquette
• Good analytical & organizational skills,
• Able to make sound decisions utilizing
• Computer Literacy; Microsoft Office Products etc.
• Previous experience within the FMCG space and having existing relationships with major wholesalers and retailers will be an added advantage

Qualifications

• Full Grade 12 certificate with a minimum of 5 credits
• Relevant certificate/Diploma in Sales, Marketing, Business Management, or any commercial field from a reputable academic institution will be an added advantage
• Two years of work experience in the food processing industry or FMCG
• Experience in the sales and marketing of Cereals, Snacks, Cooking oil and Textured Soy Protein (Soya pieces) will be an added advantage

Must be computer literate with working knowledge of Excel, Word and PowerPoint.