Territory Sales Manager – Horeca in a Reputable Chemical Manufacturing Company

Willers Solutions Limited – Our client, a reputable Chemical Manufacturing Company, is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Territory Sales Manager – Horeca

Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Sales
Product Segment: Cleaning and Hygiene Chemicals Functional Solutions.
Industry Segment: Hotels, Restaurants, Catering Services etc
Functionally Reports to: Sales Head
Administratively Reports to: Business Director

Job Description

• This job description is only a directive to facilitate and to bring clarity of your role and expectation of the Management out of it.
• You may also be assigned jobs other than this as and when need arise. Also management can make changes in the Job Description as per the need of the business and time and the same will be communicated to you through appropriate medium.
• At any point of time if you feel that your job description is not relevant to the job you are performing please feel free to approach your RA / HR and we will take the necessary action accordingly.
• Any approach of taking excuse from a necessary job by saying that it is not mentioned in the description will be consider as violation of your professional conduct and may be treated as indiscipline.

Job Objectives

• Territory Sales Manager HORECA’s Job is to develop sales plan and sales strategy for market that ensures attainment of company sales, goals and profitability in consultation with Sales Head.
• The Sales Manager manages sale of the company’s products and services in defined geographical areas. To ensure consistent, profitable growth in sales revenue through planning, deployment and management of sales personnel.
• The Sales Manager role is also to establish and manages effective programs to compensate, coach, appraise and train sales personnel. To develop customer relationship and intimacy.

Job Responsibilities
Adheres to all company policies, procedures and business ethics codes and ensures that they are communicated and implemented within the team. Duties include the following, measurable in terms of time, cost, quality or quantity:

Strategic Responsibility:

• To facilitate FRT in development of sales strategy/policy, processes and procedure. To manage the implementation of all the relevant applicable SOP’s. To ensure sales transactions are executed as per given prices and policies.
• To identify consumer base in given industrial segment, approach and promote the given product range, build the sale and service the account regularly.

Day to Day Management:

• To manage the day to day operations of sales region providing guidance, encouraging team work and facilitating related professional work processes in order to achieve high performance standards.
• To coordinate with internal and external parties at the appropriate levels to ensure smooth flow of interaction and transaction.
• To assess the various information tools, identify business opportunities, scope of new product development and pinpoint bottleneck areas i.e. market information report, market threats, and competitor’s initiatives etc. to further increase sales volume, market share and profitability.
• To make daily multiple customer visit for sales development for assigned product and industry segment and facilitate customers for various projects and probabilities to boost sales.
• To deal with customer grievances and follow-up with technical team for resolution and various customer trials analysis and support.

Sales Growth Targets:

• To ensure Sales Targets are achieved as per assigned product and region/key accounts wise through managing the effective sales strategy and follow-up to ensure accomplishment of sales operational plans.
• To develop dealer network in each state as per assigned territory/region and promote them for higher coverage in the assigned state.

Customer Relationship:

• To develop good customer base, manager customer relations, facilitate business managers/sales head to organize various business meets/seminars to boost customer intimacy.

Key Accounts:

• To focus actively on Key Accounts and seek support from various functional team/management where appropriate to ensure prompt solution to their satisfaction.
• To build accurate and detailed profiling for the key accounts to explore new business opportunities.

Budget:

• To prepare and recommend sales budget and monitor financial performance verses the budget to ensure business alignment.
• To monitor stock inventories in alignment with the budget and re-order level for product as well as packaging.

People Management:

• Manages to effective communication by setting individual targets, developing and motivating staff, providing of formal and informal feedback on performance and training needs – in order to maximize subordinate and department performance.
• To develop second line successor and drive performance through team to take up higher challenges.

Reporting:

• To prepare all applicable reports in time for accuracy and in order to ensure that they match the functional requirements, policies and standards.

Job Requirements

• Minimum of a B.Sc or HND in Business Administration, MBA (Preferred)
• Minimum of 4 – 5 Years experience as Territory Sales Manager – HORECA business.
• Well exposed to HORECA Sales and must have exposure in leading a team of 4-5 people.
• Excessive travelling is required in and around Nigeria/West Africa.
• As per the need of the business the job is transferrable and posting can be made anywhere in Nigeria/West Africa.

Deadline: 10th August, 2021.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send CV in MS Word format to: dorathy.chienyinem@willerssolutions.com using “Territory Sales Manager – Horeca” as the subject of the mail.

Note: Only qualified candidates will be shortlisted.