Sales Representative-Zanzibar
Location: Zanzibar
Educational and Experience Requirements
Diploma in Business Administration or related field.
At least three years of industry sales experience.
Familiarity with sales systems/software’s.
Proven experience working in a FMCG industry is an added advantage.
Ability to drive manual vehicles is an added advantage.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities or Required Competencies:
- Ability to work for long periods of time, under pressure, to produce results.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Customer service
- Meeting sales goals
- Closing skills
- Territory management
- Prospecting skills
- Negotiation
- Self-confidence
- Product knowledge
- Presentation skills
- Client relationships
- Motivation for sales
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Collect money from customers, make change, and record transactions on customer
receipts.
- Inform regular customers of new products or services and price changes.
- Call on prospective customers in order to explain company services and to solicit new business.
- Visiting prospective customer location and pitching the products
- Ensure truck functions well, taking care of the truck and doing minor repairs
- Arrange merchandise and sales promotion displays, or issue sales promotion materials to customers.
- Maintain trucks and food-dispensing equipment and clean inside of machines that dispense food stuff.
- Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
- Serves customers by selling products and meeting customer needs.
- Services existing accounts, obtains orders, and establishes new accounts by planning and organizing daily work schedules to call on existing or potential sales outlets.
- Keeps management informed by submitting activity and results reports, such as daily call reports, weekly work plans, and monthly.
- Monitors competition by gathering current marketplace information on pricing, products, new products, delivery schedules, and merchandising techniques.
- Recommends changes in products, service, and policy by evaluating results and competitive developments.
- Resolves customer complaints by investigating problems, developing solutions, preparing reports, and making recommendations to management.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and training.
- Provides historical records by maintaining records on area and customer sales.
- Perform any other duties assigned by the management.