Main duties that the candidate will perform:
- To contribute together with Marketing, to business planning to develop the portfolio and channel plans, the yearly and monthly sales budget.
- To lead and control the Sales team in order to ensure that policies, procedures and activities meet
- To establish with each sales manager realistic sales objectives for the month and action plan.
- To monitor on regular basis, the achievement of sales volumes and revenues versus the yearly budget, in order to suggest the corrective actions.
- To maximize the merchandising efforts by seeing that units are attractive and attention getting and use effective displays.
- To maintain relationships with wholesalers by performing regular market visits in order to investigate the operations and the fulfillment of contractual agreements with a special focus on the avoidance of transshipment.
- To maintain relationships with key accountants by performing regular market visits in order to favor the creation of additional business opportunities
- To monitor the competitive environment in order to identify business threats and opportunities in terms of existing and new clients.
- To prepare in advance and conduct regular sales meetings.
- To review the performance of sales force and to motivate and stimulate them to even greater achievements.
- To offer coaching, counseling, advice, support, motivation or information they need in order to help the sales force to meet the sales objectives
Skills and qualifications:
- University Degree in Economics for Marketing or Business Administration.
- Relevant experience in a competitive environment
- Strong analytical skills to interpret sales performance and market trend information.
- Very strong abilities to motivate and lead the sales team.
- Experience in developing the sales strategies.
- Strong skills in problem-solving
- Excellent knowledge of English (Italian knowledge would be considered an advantage)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong team work
- PC literate (Fluent with MS Office packages)
The interested candidates are pleased to send your resumes at: outsourcedrecruitment@gmail.com until 15 March, 2013.
It is a must that all the candidates identify on the e-mail subject the position they are applying for.
We wish you success on your application.
Apliko