Regional/Upcountry Sales Supervisor 61 views

OK Bottling and Beverage Share Company is involved in the production of Bottled Natural Spring Water that highly satisfies its customers as well as end users in supplying clean spring water and in discharging its social responsibility for the society.  The Company’s manufacturing Plant is located in South Nations and Nationalities Region Guraghe Zone Eza Woreda nearby Wolkite University 198 KMS away from Addis Ababa.  The Company currently is looking to hire dynamic, energetic and hardworking potential employee in the following positions as per specified job requirements.

Job Description

The overall responsibilities of Regional Sales Supervisor is for creating opportunities and facilitating situations for expanding and developing the company’s market for the existing product Fiker Wuha and assist the immediate supervisor in business and marketing activities that are performed in Addis Ababa and in the regions.

Accordingly, the job hold is expected to perform the following major duties and responsibilities

• Ensues and realize that the implementation of short –term and long term plans, strategies, policies, budgets, procedures, and guidelines considered appropriate for the Department and the units organized.
• Ensure that proper studies on  product quality, marketing costs, prices, profitability, competitors,  business diversification are made and appropriate actions have been undertake to make sense out of the studies.
• Supervise, coordinate, manage and implements the Company’s  business development and marketing activities in a professional way.
• With a view to increasing the market share of the Company in the water bottling  industry from time to time, the position holder is tasked with keeping the business relations with the existing customers; look for new customers and markets in geographic areas considered the Company has comparative advantages, including overseas.
• Conducts need assessment and feedback collection tasks from customers in the existing markets with a view to keeping the already established market intact and looking for new customers.
• Make sure that market information’s of the Company is prepared and disseminated to potential customers through all available means: electronics and in hard copy, where it deems necessary
• Work with actual customers and negotiate and lobby with potential customers  and brings the proposal to the attention of the Department’s Manager to make future strong partnership with them.
•  Devise the ways for enhancing and strengthening business relationship, trust and confidence with the existing and potential business partners.
•  Ensure that Business Development and Marketing strategies are implemented and as per the plans.
• Devise the ways for Company’s Business development in terms of market expansion and diversification. .
• Analyze the current market positioning and business development of the company.
• Supports the department manager on the development of company market positioning strategy with a view to enabling customers to trust the company’s product/brand.
• Implements the programs and business strategies when approved by the company
• Supervises, coordinates, and manages, the business development and marketing activities in a professional manner.
•  Ensures that sales contracts with customers and agents implemented as per the agreement made.
• Undertakes the business development and marketing activities on the basis of proactively planned and arranged schedules.
• Maintain collegial and fruitful relationships with existing customers.
• Manage client partner relationships to build smooth and healthy working environment.
•  Analyze customer’s feedback and data to determine whether customers are satisfied with the company product. Prepare and submits monthly, quarterly, mid-term and annual reports on the activities of his territorial business development and marketing jobs.
•  Prepare and submits monthly, quarterly, mid-term and annual reports on the activities of his territorial business development and marketing jobs.
•  Undertakes other activities considered important as per the instruction of the department’s manager.

Number of open posts: 1 (One)

Employment type: Full time after the successful completion of probation period

• BA Degree in Marketing and Sales or related field, minimum of 3 years’ work experience in Supervisor position in Adama and/or Debre Zeit Markets. Preferably in beverage and bottled water companies.
• Ability to provide leadership, communicates effectively, and promotes a team approach.
• Able to communicate efficiently both verbally and in written form.
• Able to adjust to fast changing business conditions and is always result oriented.
• Knowledgeable about salesmanship and customer relation/handling.