Sales Executive
Fourier Recruitment · Centurion, Gauteng
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Start free — we apply for you →The role focuses on growing business by identifying new prospects, maintaining existing customer relationships, and achieving monthly sales targets and margins for the company.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Grow business by identifying new prospects and targeting new accounts
- Build and maintain solid relationships with the customer base
- Sell products by recommending solutions and establishing contact with prospects
- Organise monthly face-to-face client visits (minimum 3 per week for External Sales)
- Maintain travel logs and call sheets
- Advise management on market trends and competitors
- Inform Sales Manager of business opportunities to ensure accurate forecasting
- Accurately process customer orders
- Achieve monthly sales targets with a minimum 30% margin
- Manage a healthy debtors' book
- Identify business opportunities through research and analysis
- Bring in an additional R10,000 turnover per month in sales
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge through workshops and training
- Call a minimum of 30 customers daily to establish needs
- Update customer details in Pastel every 3 months
- Assess stock availability, pricing, and delivery dates
- Capture sales orders onto the system within 10 minutes of receipt
- Release sales orders to warehouse within 2 minutes of completion
- Compile and forward quotations within 10 minutes of request
- Resolve customer complaints and queries professionally
- Maintain safety, health, and environmental standards in the work area
- Perform weekly inventory counts and re-counts
Desired Experience & Qualification
- Minimum 3 years’ experience as a Sales Executive in any industry
- Proficient in MS Office suite
- Proficient in Pastel Accounting
- Driver’s license and own transport essential
- Excellent persuasion and negotiation skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to follow processes and procedures accurately
- Positive customer experience orientation
Package & Remuneration
- petrol allowance
Interested?
Fourier Recruitment