Measurement & Control Solutions Sales Manager at GE Oil & Gas

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GE Oil & Gas is recruting for the position of:

Job Title: Measurement & Control Solutions Sales Manager
Job Number: 1954730

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Role Summary/Purpose:
The candidate will be responsible for leading and strategically growing our full scope of Measurement & Control Solutions products and Services in West Africa Region
The Sales Manager is responsible for the effective and profitable management of assigned customer accounts. In this role he/she will be primarily focused on growing and maintaining existing accounts. He/she will also work with current customers to provide value and meet service needs.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Self starter, responsible for driving orders and sales through new and existing clients
• Develop and execute territory and specific account sales plans
• Accountability to deliver on commitments and communicate progress, needs, and strategies to win in a competitive landscape, meet/exceed sales target
• Be knowledgeable of competitive and market environment.
• Customer centric mind set focused on building and improving customer relationships and utilizing value selling of our technologies to make a difference
• Create and drive process changes to develop winning strategies and order closure.
• Cultivate long term relationships at all levels of customer organization.
• Responsible for managing and developing channel partners within assigned geography

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Minimum of a B.Sc. degree in preferably a technical engineering qualification/degree
• Proven technical and commercial sales experience as an individual contributor.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills that enable working relationships externally (customers) and internally and a strong team player
• Able to work effectively in a multi-cultural environment
• Fluent in English
• A proven background in the oil & gas industry (OEM,manufacturing and process industry with End Users, Engineering Firms and Manufacturers) of around 5 years, with a minimum of 3 years in preferably within a similar sales role
• Must have local market knowledge and understanding

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:
Desired Characteristics:

• MBA
• Ability to communicate at all levels within customer organizations as well as GE
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills
• International Experience

Application Closing Date
7th May, 2014

Method of Application
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