SPECIALIST, SALES
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Job Purpose
Promoting and selling products to retailers, distributors, and other businesses. Developing and maintaining relationships with outdoor retail clients. Focus on displaying our products l in customers’ showrooms by presenting the added value.
Key Accountability Areas
Identify and target potential customers:
- Set a weekly plan to visit customers based on specific business objectives.
- Use TTM (Territory time management ) – to have productive daily visits
- Increase number of busying customers by working on coverage
- Understand customers needs and build on providing a solution with our products and services by emphasizing on added value
- Understand the main competitors (SWOT)
- Compliance with policies and procedures
Develop and execute effective sales strategies to achieve or exceed sales targets
- Build and maintain strong relationship with existing customers
- Open new doors by adding customers to platform in order to generate more revenue
- Address the needs and concerns after understating customers’ demands
- Educate our customers on the added value of our products and services
- Target space in our retailers showrooms in order to display our products in the best way possible.
Control of collection process
- Monitor customer credit balances with good collection of the debts in a timely manner according to company policy
- Plan sales calls with objectives of collection and payments
- Work on proposing solutions for delay and failures of payments and collection
Monitor market trends, competitor activities, and customer preferences to identify opportunities for product improvement and expansion.
- Negotiate pricing, terms and contracts with customers to ensure mutual benefits
- Create new selling opportunities by expanding the distribution network
- Work on proposing all the company's products to customers
- Utilize the enrichment of portfolio to stimulate opportunities for maintaining existing customers and adding new clients.
Provide accurate and timely sales updates to Supervisor/Section manager
- Highlight challenges and solutions with team leader
- Request on ground coaching and make joint calls with team leader
- Provide market data and customers’ experience to team leader
Maintaining standard display at retailers’ shops
- Provide newly developed collections / tiles display where needed.
- Enriching the display area by what is needed based on the retailer’s showroom needs, by providing sample tiles.
- Equip the retailer’s showroom with all needed designs display of items to boost sales and enhance relationships.
- Constant follow up with design department on changes in displays and maintain good communication.
Commitment to company policies and procedures
- Compliance with policies, procedures and approved forms
- Constant concern to follow up the updates and amendments to the company policies in coordination with an administration section.
- Submission of proposals of the development of procedures and processes
Role Accountability
HR Proficiency:
- Ability to obtain updated soft and technical skills related to the job
- To have a vision and a plan for the career path and how to achieve it.
Delivery:
- Perform the planned activities to meet the operational and development targets as per delivery schedules.
- Utilize resources effectively to achieve objectives within efficient cost and time.
- Provide a periodic report formatted by detailing the deviation and execution of planned tasks.
Problem-Solving:
- Solve any related problems arise and escalate any complex operational issues.
Quality:
- Ensure quality requirements to develop effective quality control and processes including specifications for products or processes or related activities.
Business Process Improvements:
- Coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
Compliance:
- Comply to related policy and procedures and work instructions.
Health, Safety, and Environment:
- Ensure compliance of relevant safety, quality, and environmental management procedures and controls within defined area of work activity to guarantee safety, legislative compliance, and delivery of high-quality products/services.
Academic Qualification
Work Experience
Technical / Functional Competencies