External Sales Consultant
Red Ember Recruitment is recruiting for an External Sales Consultant for our client in the North of Johannesburg.
Requirements
- More than 6 years’ experience in shipping environment or similar
- More than 2 years’ experience in sales in shipping environment
- Tertiary qualification in maritime studies/import, export and/or similar will be a great
- advantage
- Admin orientated
- Strong Interpersonal skills and handling difficult clients
- Portray corporate image
- Must be a Team Player
- Computer Literate in Word, Excel, Power Point, E-mail
- Ability to work under pressure under minimum supervision
- Admin orientated with high degree of accuracy
- Driver’s license
- Time Management and Stress Tolerance in an ever-changing environment
- Planning and organising skills
Duties:
- Sourcing new clients
- Maintaining current Clients
- Filing and checking of SQ’s.
- Application to principals for freight rates, routings, feeder space, uncleared shipments etc.
- Providing customers with freight rate quotations.
- Assisting customers with queries relating to shipments and services
- Communication with principals on BIZ matters
- Distribution of freight rate guidelines; BIZ notices, sailing schedules.
- Updating client database
- Entertaining clients and organising client functions
- involved with negotiation of Tenders/Freight Contracts with clients and principals