Sales Representative (Mpumalanga)
Smollan · Mpumalanga
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Key Responsibilities and Deliverables
Sales and Communication Management
- Manage staff to ensure adherence to basic merchandising requirements and objectives of that function
- Ensure continual drive for sales through repeat replenishment by staff
- Ensure that all new lines are ordered as soon as the product is listed
- Ensure store staff and management are aware of new lines, stock and supplier issues, and staff issues
- Discuss future promotions, focus lines, stock issues or any other relevant information
- Communicate all relevant Franchise issues through submission of the Franchise contact report
- Identify and take appropriate action where over-stock situations occur and also when
- short-dated coded stock is found as per the
- Short Dated and Expired Stock policy
- Communicate pricing, listing, product, packaging or stock issues directly to management
- Manage returns and waste
Customer Service
- Respond promptly to all customer and supplier complaints and requests 24hr turnaround
- Ensure that feedback on the above is detailed and correct
- Ensure that all suppliers and customers are treated with the required respect
Key Manage Technology
- Complete all relevant tasks, audits on SMART in full and in time
- Ensure adoption and effective usage of SMART by store teams where applicable
Promotional Activity Management
- Ensure that all promotional activity is completed, sufficient stock is ordered, displays, ends and
- Point of Sales are erected correctly and on time.
- Ensure store teams are informed about promotions
- Communicate promotional activities to store teams
- Ensure promotional activities have been implemented and maintained
- Provide feedback on promotional implementation
- Achieve POP Objectives and Targets
- Ensure generic Planograms flows are implemented
- Ensure store-specific planograms and category flows are implemented and maintained
- Ensure shelf health is implemented and maintained
- Ensure PI labels are updated and in the correct place
- Ensure promotional signage is implemented and maintained
- Communicate sales targets to the Store teams
- Identify in-store cross-merchandising opportunities
- Monitor sales to ensure sales targets are achieved
Operational Excellence
- Communicate with store management on every visit GNAP and feedback
- Basic merchandising principles
- Shelf health and stock rotation and stock management policies Gap Scan, OOS label, stock counts
- Manage the store teams required to ensure efficient and effective day-to-day operations of the store execution, including scheduling and ensuring enough coverage by day and category
- Continuous monitoring of service delivery
- Implementation of sales initiatives and value-adding store operations
- Ensure all company assets are maintained according to company policy
- Ensure adherence to call cycle at all times.
- Ensure that every store has a Mule Train book at all times and that it is properly utilized by the store staff
- Continual review of store structures to align with pack out rates, trading densities and store requirements
Stakeholder Engagement
- Proactively influencing and managing relationships to ensure growth for all
- Provide continuous feedback as per requirements
- Complete Franchise contact report for every visit
- Establish and maintain effective relationships with customers, principals, peers, subordinates and colleagues
Key Competencies
- Critical Thinking
- Commercial Acumen
- Digital Fluency
- Communication
- Relationship Building
- Emotional Maturity
- Resillience
- Organising & Coordinating
- Delivering
- Competitive Edge
Requirements
- An operational leader who ensures growth by proactively influencing sales of represented lines by managing the critical resources required to ensure efficient and effective day-to-day operations; and acting as a custodian, leader, and people manager.
- Minimum Qualifications: Diploma/NQF level 5, Driver's license code 8
- Minimum Experience: 2-3 years' sales experience in an FMCG environment at a managerial/ supervisory level
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities: Communication skills verbal & written
- Problem-solving
- Analytical skills
- Computer literacy
- Business acumen
- Attention to detail
- Industrial relations knowledge
- Decision-making skills
- Selling skills
- Negotiation skills
- Planning & organising skills
- Leadership skills
- Proactive thinking