Area Sales Manager - Bread & Pasteries at Food Emporium International

Objectives: 
Implements the sales and marketing plan for the corporate channels to ensure sales targets are achieved or exceeded for the team

Responsibilities

• Managing, training and motivating existing sales team to drive revenue growth
• Develop and manage efficient distribution networks for sales
• Develop efficient and creative sales and marketing strategies for the assigned territory and target setting for the sales team
• Establishing, maintaining and expanding your customer base
• Keeping up to date with products and competitors
• Collecting customer and market feedback and reporting the same to the organization
• Monitoring sales team performance, analyzing sales data, periodical forecasting and reporting to management

Qualifications and Key Competencies

• BSc./HND Marketing or any related discipline with 4 to 6 years relevant Sales & Marketing experience handling Food Service accounts specific to corporate institution customers and distributors in the Lagos region ideally with international FMCG/Food background
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent problem solving and organization skills
• Self motivated and flexible to work with negligible supervision.
• Should have negotiation skills to deal with different kinds of customers.
• An established customer base and with an excellent rapport with key accounts.
• Creative, action oriented person, reliable self-starter with the ability to work and deliver measurable result with little supervision
• Ability to use basic computer applications (Mword, Mexcel, Powerpoint)