Sales Executive at Afrimash

Overview

• Develop relationships with prospects, acting as the initial point of contact.
• Respond, engage, qualify inbound leads/inquiries, and convert them to customers.
• Generating potential leads, soliciting potential customers, facilitating sales, and connecting customers with the right Account Executives.

Responsibilities

• Identify and qualify new sales opportunities and convert prospects to customers
• Developing sales strategies to draw in potential buyers or to solicit new potential customers.
• Initiating contact with potential customers through cold-calling or responding to inquiries generated from advertisements.
• Creating relationships with customers to identify their potential needs and qualify their interests and viability to drive sales.
• Presenting product information to customers once you have identified their needs.
• Moving solid leads through the marketing funnel, Converting leads to buyers and connecting them to an Account Manager.
• Following up with potential customers who expressed interest but did not purchase any goods or services.
• Performing regular follow-up calls or emails and facilitating communication with existing customers to ensure their satisfaction and identify new potential needs.
• Collaborating with Account Managers to ensure the company's goals and targets are met.

Requirements

• First Degree in Agriculture, Agricultural Science, Animal Science and related fields
• Minimum of 1 year experience in Sales/Telemarketing
• Knowledge of market research, sales and negotiating principles
• Strong and professional communication skills - written, verbal, presentation
• Aptitude to manage numerous requests and time demands concurrently while achieving production goals from assigned territory or set of accounts
• Promotes a strong sense of urgency for reaching goals and key deliverables.
• Contributes fully to the team effort and plays an integral part in the smooth running of teams without necessarily taking the lead
• Self-driven and competitive team player.