Sales Manager at KHS Machines Nigeria Limited

KHS Machines Nigeria Limited, a leading supplier of packaging equipment, after sales service and solutions to manufacturing needs, has at the core of it’s strategy - winning with PEOPLE. KHS Machines Nigeria Ltd sees people as a key asset to achieving its vision of being the First Choice in Packaging and engineering Technology across West Africa.

As an international manufacturer of filling and packaging equipment for the beverage, food, and non-food sectors KHS GmbH holds a leading position within the industry. The German company was established in 1993 from a merger involving Holstein & Kappert AG of Dortmund (founded in 1868) and Seitz-Werke GmbH in Bad Kreuznach (later SEN AG). Based in Dortmund, together with a workforce numbering approximately 4,500 KHS group* achieved a turnover of over €1 billion in 2013. KHS GmbH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Salzgitter Klöckner-Werke GmbH, itself part of the Salzgitter Group.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Sales Manager

Location: Nigeria

Job Description

• The position of sales Manager is primarily responsible for attracting customers and driving sales for the company.
• It consists of developing and sustaining relationships with prospective and existing customers, direct the actual sales process and continually improve same as the opportunity arises, coordinating sales distribution by establishing sales territories, quotas, and goals, working with the KHS management team to agree annual targets and budgets.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead our selling teams.
• Provide independent customer support and intensify existing customer relations.
• Acquisition of customers.
• Process customer inquiries and customer consultancy.
• Promote the KHS range of products.
• Process quotations for single machines through to turnkey filling lines.
• Take charge of quotation and order entry in ERP and CRM systems.
• Observe market potential and competitors.
• Clarify technical orders.
• Assume responsibility for reporting duties.

Desired Skills and Experience
Qualifications and Requirements:

• Degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering and/or beverage technology or a similar qualification.
• At least three years' sales experience in the beverage industry desirable.
• Good knowledge of KHS system technology as well as SAP and MS Office.
• Excellent knowledge of spoken and written English, French, knowledge of German will be beneficial.
• Ability to work under pressure and in a team.
• Targeted, independent working method.
• Excellent negotiating skills.
• Willingness to travel extensively within West Africa.

Competences (in order of importance)

• Integrity - Job requires being honest and ethical.
• Dependability - Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
• Achievement/Effort - Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
• Leadership - Job requires a willingness to lead, takes charge, and offer opinions and direction.
• Initiative - Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
• Computer Literacy - competent in the use of Microsoft tools e.g. MS project, word, Power point, Excel and also engineering drawing tools such as AutoCAD, etc.

Reporting Line:

• The Sales Manager will report directly to the Managing Director of KHS Machines Nigeria Limited.

Working Conditions

• The Sales Manager's role is a Full time role.
• Working time as stipulated in conditions of service however the employee would be expected to work at a capacity required to achieve desired results for the company, and may be expected to travel across the region generally and overseas in special cases.

Remuneration
Remuneration will be attractive and competitive in line with market/ industry standard.

Application Closing Date
28th April, 2015.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their applications to:

KHS Machines Nigeria Limited,
HR Management- MD
No. 50 Oduduwa Crescent,
Ikeja GRA, Lagos,
Nigeria.

Your Contact:
Michael Kloss
michael.kloss@khs.com
+2349098846189

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