Sales and Marketing Specialist
We are looking for a results-driven Sales Representative to actively seek out leads, engage customer prospects, and secure business with restaurants, caterers, event planners, and large venues.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Achieve sales targets and develop the required territories by building relationships to win new clients.
- Takes orders from customers as needed and relays to the production team
- Negotiate pricing with customers, and suppliers as per mandate provided by Senior Management.
- Generate leads and cold call prospective customers. Maintain a client database to record client information, call activity, actions, follow-ups, and results, etc.
- Consults with clients after onboarding to resolve problems and to provide ongoing support
- Performs administrative duties, such as preparing sales budgets and reports, keeping sales records, and filing expense account reports
- Think strategically – seeing the bigger picture and setting aims and objectives in order to develop and improve the business
- Track and report competitive issues.
- Acquire, maintain, and report adequate knowledge of product, market, and competition.
KEY REQUIREMENTS
- Strong experience in sales in the poultry sector in Rwanda and regional markets.
- A strong network of contacts in the poultry sector.
- At least 3 years of sales experience in the poultry sector
- A “hunter” personality is an absolute must
- Be fluent in English and French. Both verbal and written.
- Other foreign languages (s) a plus
- Comfortable with Microsoft Office Suite programs and databases
- Interpersonal communication, and written communication skills
- Well organized, detail-oriented, results-focused, and able to work autonomously;
- Travel within the assigned territory.
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