Sales and Marketing Manager (Lubes) at Sahara Group

Job Description

• This role is responsible for driving the aggressive entrance of new Asha Lubes products into the market and gaining market share.
• It involves being accountable and responsible for customer satisfaction, payment, invoicing, monitoring and reconciliation of customer accounts.
• It also involves building strong relationships with related stakeholders in the course of duty both internal and external.

Key Deliverables

• Drive sales performance through implementation of sales and marketing initiatives, achieve targets
• Build and maintain effective relationship with key and potential clients, interacting with business partners and provide expert knowledge and support to ensure operational excellence and standard application of operating standards.
• Monitor key accounts performance trends and determine appropriate actions to address any issues to optimize the business and deliver best-in-class customer service and compliance to credit policy.
• Develop opportunities in local market for Asha Lubes and work towards controlling a large market share for Asharami Synergy.
• Develop metrics-driven approach to evaluate sales & service performance through modelling, reporting and analytics.
• Translate business goals and market insights into effective marketing strategies that deliver measurable impact on revenue
• Develop and establish promotional strategies and implementing sales campaigns that fit the needs of business and products.
• Carry out market analysis on competition, gather market/sales intelligence in order to plan out sales promotional activities properly
• Manage budgeting and sales volume planning, tracking and reporting, compile relevant reports for management use
• Ensure the Key Performance Indicators for Volumes & Gross Margins are delivered as per plan
• Effective management of branding activities in order to build strong brand presence in the markets
• Design and recommend sales programs and sets long and short-term sales strategies

Requirements
Minimum Qualification/ Experience:

• A University degree in a Social Science course (Business Administration, Marketing etc.)
• Minimum of 5 - 8 years of cognate working experience (Post NYSC) in a similar role.

Knowledge/Skills:

• Commercially & contractually astute
• Conscientious in approach to work
• Good interpersonal and people skill
• Good communication skills (oral and written)
• Good use of Microsoft Office
• Good numeracy skills
• Good reporting skills.

Personality Traits:

• Highly analytical and problem solving ability.
• A team player with an international outlook
• Candidate must possess strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to work under pressure, independently and in a team
• Customer Service Oriented.
• Proactive, initiative and creative.
• Highly result-oriented.

Working Relationships:

• Finance team
• Business Development team
• External clients and Major Stakeholders
• All Staff.