Graduate Sales Representative at Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) Plc

Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC) Plc is the franchise bottler and distributor for products of The Coca-Cola Company in Nigeria and a member of Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company S. A., an anchor bottler with the franchise to bottle products of the Coca-Cola Company in 28 countries in North, Central and South Europe, Asia and in Africa with over 560 million consumers in these markets. Copied from: www.hotnigerianjobs.com

Job Title: Sales Representative

Key Accountabilities:

• Develop and maintain the relationships with current customers and potential customers.
• Identify and explore new sales opportunities
• Follow-up on collection of payments
• Arrange schedules on product delivery
• Deploy special sales activities to increase sales.
• Help the company implement its marketing plans as required.
• Supervise the execution of sales plans and strategies for the territory,
• Service the strategic distributor/dealers accounts.
• Develop and grow existing accounts and retail outlets.
• Ensure activation to Coca-Cola standards in the primary and secondary outlets in a way that will positively impact product availability and outlet activation, thereby increasing company sales and market share. Copied from: www.hotnigerianjobs.com

Qualifications:

• Candidates must have B.Sc/HND in any discipline (minimum of 2^nd class lower division/lower credit) obtained from a recognized university/polytechnic with NYSC certificate.
• Must not be above 30 years as at December 2011.
• Excellent planning and organizing, customer relation and communication skills. Copied from: www.hot nigerianjobs.com
• Computer skills, including MS Office, PowerPoint, etc
• Knowledge of FMCG commercial operations will be an added advantage.

Application Deadline
9th March, 2012

How to Apply:
Interested candidates should send their hand written applications with 2 paged curriculum vitae (CV) quoting Ref No SR/02/12 on the left hand side of the envelope to the Human Resources Manager in any of the following NBC Plant locations:

Abuja
Challawa
Jos
Kaduna
Maiduguri

Closing date is 9th March 2012.
Please note that only short listed candidates will be contacted.