Sales Manager (Hygiene – Institutional) in a Manufacturing Company

OutsideIn HR Limited – Our client in the Manufacturing Sector who offers a range of specialty chemicals and value-added products to industries that are manufacturing products for Personal Care, Soap & Detergents, Cleaning & Hygiene Chemicals, across Nigeria and West Africa is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Sales Manager (Hygiene – Institutional)

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Objectives

• Sales Manager – Institutional – The job is to drive and achieve sales of the hygiene business products and services in assigned customer segment and defined geographical territory.
• To develop existing as well as new customers, trends analysis and to monitor consumption, technological and demographic factors so that opportunities maybe capitalized and effects of competitive activities may be minimized.
• To build effective customer relationship and win confidence of customers as trusted supplier.
• The job requires you be on field most of your time and meet customers, identify business opportunity.
• To develop sales plan and sales strategy for market that ensures attainment of company sales, goals and profitability in consultation with Business Director.

Job Responsibilities

• Adheres to all company policies, procedures and business ethics codes and ensures that they are communicated and implemented within the team.

Sales Strategy:

• To achieve sales plan and budget along with business objective through identification and tapping new business opportunities; with profit responsibility.
• To drive the process in accordance of applicable SOP’s and policies.

Day to Day Management:

• To travel rigorously across the territory to increase market presence, customer base and increase sales volume.
• To supervise sales team effectively to ensure maximum productivity out of team.
• To identify market potential, develop customer relations and guide team to follow the same.
• To facilitate the sales team in processing leads, logistics and distribution of the material to the customers.
• To train team on product and application trials, guide them on their visit itineraries to gain maximum productivity out of team.

Customer Relationship:

• To develop new customer base and sustain existing business by regular customer meeting, territory visits, conducting various customer trials and managing effective customer intimacy.
• To facilitate FRT/ART in building accurate profiling for the customer to explore new business opportunities and right product promotion.
• Key Accounts – To focus actively on Key Accounts and seek support from various functional team/management where appropriate to ensure prompt solution to their satisfaction.
• Projects tracking on a continuous basis to Judge the market potential for key products and striving to widen the customer base through extensive research.
• To build accurate and detailed profiling for the key accounts to explore new business opportunities.

Sales Targets:

• To ensure Sales Targets are achieved as per assigned product and region/key accounts wise through managing the effective sales strategy and follow-up to ensure accomplishment of sales operational plans.
• To assess the various information tools, identify business opportunities and pinpoint bottleneck areas to further increase sales volume, market share and profitability

Sales Growth:

• To assess the various information tools, identify business opportunities and pinpoint bottleneck areas to further increase sales volume, market share and profitability.

Budget:

• To prepare and recommend sales budget and monitor financial performance verses the budget to ensure business alignment.

Reporting:

• To prepare all applicable reports in time for accuracy and in order to ensure that they match the functional requirements, policies and standards.

Job Requirements

• Well exposed to B2B and Institutional Sales.
• Bachelors’Degree in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering. Any management diploma and degree shall be an added advantage.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in sales with minimum 2 years of latest experience in selling products to Institutions (Hospital, Corporate House, Hotels, Malls, Banks, Universities etc)
• Must have handled minimum 3-5 direct reportees at managerial level.
• Frequent travelling is required in and around Nigeria.
• As per the need of the business the job is transferrable and posting can be made anywhere in Nigeria/West Africa.

Application Closing Date
15th July, 2021.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should please send their CV to: recruitment@outsideinhrng.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.