Sales and Distribution Officers - Pure Water Factory at Edgewood Consulting Limited - Lagos & Ogun

Edgewood Consulting Limited - Our client, a leader in the Pure Water manufacturing sector, as a result of growth and expansion, is currently recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Sales and Distribution Officer - Pure Water Factory

Locations: Ikeja - Lagos and Ogun
Employment Type: Full Time

Job Summary

• The job holder accomplishes business development activities by researching and developing marketing opportunities and plans; implementing sales plans;
• Managing sales staff, closing sales deals as well as signing on new customers and increasing the business bottom line.

Job Responsibilities

• Accomplishes marketing and sales plans by meeting and superseding sales target.
• Achieves marketing and sales operational objectives by contributing marketing and sales information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing sales audits; identifying trends; determining system improvements; implementing change.
• Meets marketing and sales financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Determines annual and gross-profit plans by forecasting and developing annual sales quotas for regions; projecting expected sales volume and profit; analyzing trends and results; establishing pricing strategies; recommending selling prices; monitoring costs, competition, supply, and demand.
• Accomplishes marketing and sales objectives by planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating advertising, merchandising, and trade promotion programs; developing field sales action plans.
• Identifies marketing opportunities by identifying consumer requirements; defining market, competitor's share, and competitor's strengths and weaknesses; forecasting projected business; establishing targeted market share.
• Improves product marketability and profitability by researching, identifying, and capitalizing on market opportunities; improving product packaging; coordinating new product development.
• Sustains rapport with key accounts by making periodic visits; exploring specific needs; anticipating new opportunities.
• Provides information by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends.
• Protects organization's value by keeping information confidential.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations that would benefit the organization.
• Accomplishes marketing and organization mission by completing related results as needed
• Recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counselling, and disciplining sales employees; communicating job expectations; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures in the sales team.

Required Experience & Skills

• A graduate with back ground in Marketing or any Business related studies.
• Must have worked in a pure-water / manufacturing company for a minimum of 2 years.
• Understanding of customers’ needs and interaction among departments.
• Understanding operational and distribution process ‘in the street’.
• Strong organizational skills including a superior attention to details
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong project management and communication skills
• Strong process focus/mindset
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Demonstrated influencing and negotiation skills
• Self starter, able to drive initiatives independently.

Application Closing Date
28th June, 2021.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Applications to: [email protected] using "Sales and Distribution Executive" as the subject of the mail.