Sales Trainee - Marine Coating at a Reputable Paint Company - Willers Solutions Limited

Willers Solutions Limited - Our client, a reputable firm in the Paint sector, is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Sales Trainee - Marine Coating

Location: Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Objectives

• Sales Officers / Trainees job is to maintain and grow sales by retaining existing account, winning new customers by providing adequate pre and post technical service.
• Also help in improving gross margin for the product range in line with company budgets and strategic plans.
• To manage sale of the company's products and services in defined geographical areas.

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.
• Day to Day Management - To manage the day-to-day operations of sales & service in the assigned region, providing guidance, encouraging team work and facilitating related professional work processes in order to achieve high performance standards.
• To make regular customer visit for sales development, provide technical assistance 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.
• To coordinate with internal and external parties at the appropriate levels to ensure smooth flow of interaction and transaction.
• 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 wherever the opportunity arises, 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.
• Reporting - To prepare all applicable reports in time for accuracy and in order to ensure that they match the functional requirements, policies and standards.

Requirements

• B.Ed / B.Tech / Bachelor's Degree in Chemistry, Paint or Chemicals. NACE Level 1 or 2 will be additional qualification who would be given preference.
• 01 - 02 years of experience in servicing the Shipping / Marine/ Oil & Gas industry with experience in managing the Corrosion Protection, selling paints & providing technical service to the Marine /Asset Protection in the Oil & Gas sector or Chemical Industry.
• Well exposed to B2B Marketing in the Shipping/ Marine and Oil & Gas Industry in Nigeria.
• 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.
• A few years of experience in the development of Marine & Corrosion Protection coatings for this sector will be an additional advantage.

Application Closing Date
11th November, 2022.