Sales Activator

SUMMARY:
Our client has an urgent vacancy for a Sales Activator in Woodstock, Cape Town.

POSITION INFO:

Our client is an established and well trusted beverage brand in South Africa, known for high quality products and exciting innovations. As our client continues a strong growth trajectory, they are looking for a proactive, forward thinking, dynamic and action-oriented individual to join their team to support the management team to drive sales and lead in current and future relationships. 

MAIN PURPOSE / OBJECTIVES OF THE JOB:

• Executes Sales activities in new and existing channels to increase revenue, volume, and profit for all our client’s products nationally across off-trade outlets. 
• Dynamic execution and implementation of the brand Sales Strategy to bring awareness to new and existing customers. 
• Actively, evaluate and improve the customer outlet and our client’s product visibility in outlets.
• Drive and expand our client’s reach across all off-trade channels and groups to increase market share.
• Identify customer and close the distribution gaps. 
• Understand and supply our client’s financial levers to product mix, pricing, promotional strategy and cross-selling within and existing customers to ROI monthly.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• A completed degree in Commercial Streams: Entrepreneurship, Economics, Retail Management, Business Management
• 2+ years experience, 
• Must have own vehicle. 
• Experience in a FMCG sales environment would be advantageous.
• 2+ years experience as a Sales Brand Ambassador.
• Microsoft - Word, Excel, Outlook.

 Competencies Required:

• Solid financial acumen and a flair to work with numbers.
• Strong enterpriser that can be business development focused. 
• Team orientated to drive strong engagement with internal team and stakeholders. 

 Personal Characteristics:

• Strong admin temperament (initiative - taker, go getter attitude, analytical person, self-reliant, goal orientated, work across barriers)
• Initiative and taking ownership (take on responsibility for tasks and actions)
• Resource management (effectively managing resources to achieve maximum productivity and sales in all channels)
• Innovation (The ability to see and create new ways of doing things and finding creative solutions to problems)
• Collaborative team working (the willingness to act as part of a small team yet, high performing team and work jointly towards achieving team goals and outcomes)