Sales Manger at E-Terra Technologies Limited

The successful candidate will be energetic, persuasive and well organized and able to demonstrate the ability to sell.

Define and execute appropriate sales strategies; business development, marketing, technical, and operations and sales support programs to maximize sales and profitability.

Responsibilities:

• Create strong relationships with key client stakeholders at both senior and mid-management levels
• Work closely with colleagues on cross-territory opportunities and other internal teams on marketing materials and cause studies
• Understand the competitive landscape and market trends
• Understand and effectively communicate the company's value prop, tech, process and current partnerships
• Determine annual unit and gross-profit plans by implementing marketing strategies; analyzing trends and results
• Establish sales objectives by forecasting and developing annual sales quotas for regions and territories; projecting expected sales volume and profit for existing and new products
• Maintain sales volume, product mix and selling price by keeping current with supply and demand, changing trends, economic indicators and competitors
• Establish and adjust selling prices by monitoring costs, competition and supply and demand
• Complete national sales operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees; following up on work results
• Maintain sales staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting and training employees. As well as counseling and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring and appraising job results
• Contribute to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
• Competent with Microsoft Office Suite, Salesforce.com and ComScore
• Desire to own projects and exceed expectations, with ability to find solutions and deliver results within a rapidly changing, entrepreneurial, technology-driven culture
• Ability to identify and solve client issues strategically
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with management and cross-functional teams, for both technical and non-technical audiences
• Work with the Sales, Account Management and Operations, teams to implement targeted sales strategy
• Generate and maintain accurate Account and Opportunity plans
• Work with internal teams on behalf of clients to ensure the highest level of customer service
• Interface with technical support internally to resolve issues that directly impact partners
• Manage and implement the sales forecasting, planning and buyer driven sales and marketing processes, establishing high levels of quality, accuracy and process consistency for the sales and marketing organization
• Work collaboratively with the sales and marketing teams and fosters a culture of continuous process improvement
• Drive the successful implementation and adoption of the sales and marketing automation platforms
• Reporting and analytics
• Ensure reports and other internal intelligence and insight is provided to the sales and marketing organization
• Analyze pipeline and lead data, deliver periodic reporting to the sales and marketing teams providing key business insights: typical reporting relates to Demand Generation, Pipeline Forecast and Trends, Conversion Rates, Target Account, Market Segmentation, Win/Loss, Age
• Report on key KPIs related to the lead and the opportunity waterfall in order to implement a consistent closed-loop between marketing and sales
• Through reporting and analytics, validate the quality of the lead and pipeline data and provide guidance to improve the overall data quality
• Database management
• Define contact and account quality standards in the database, defining processes and data acquisition strategies
• Monitor the quality of marketing and sales information and define data improvement programs

Requirements:

• Ability to understand the impact of operational initiatives from a sales or marketing person’s perspective
• Ability to prepare reports and use of appropriate mode of communication. Must be proficient at analyzing data, building reporting and making strategic recommendations based on data and trends
• Ability to manage multiple projects and work to tight deadlines
• Proven success working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Keen business sense, with the ability to find creative business-oriented solutions to problems

Sales Director top skills & proficiencies:

• Presentation Skills
• Client Relationships
• Emphasizing Excellence
• Negotiation
• Prospecting Skills
• Creativity
• Sales Planning
• Independence
• Motivation

Education /Qualification:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing/Business Administration
• Masters in Business Administration or Marketing preferred.
• Qualified Chartered Marketer will be an added advantage.

Experience:

• 5 years minimum in a sales Manager role;
• within industry preferred.
• Salary range between N150-N200K