Area Sales Manager - Cereal Business (Corn Flakes) at Multipro Consumer Products Limited

Core Deliverables

• Plan and Deliver the monthly sales targets for his territory.
• Achieve availability of our products at the Distributors’ outlets.
• Identify, create and execute opportunities with Distributors to increase sell-in/sell-out.
• Effectively Manage the resources allocated for Sales operations of his assigned territory.
• Ensure optimization of team effort towards the achievement of territory objective.
• Supervise, coach and train his team on the job to better sell and merchandize our products.

Other Job Functions:

• Make periodic plan for the territory with clear KPIs
• Responsible for Distributor management and effective use of allocated resources.
• Monitor performance and guide staff assigned to his/her territory.
• Liaising with management and customers for effective delivery of our products.
• Market supervision - Price Check, Competition check, new development affecting the business, etc.
• Provide weekly/monthly sales forecasts for the assigned territory.
• Execute the sales and marketing plan for the territory as agreed with the Branch Manager.
• Monitor Distributors’ turnover and stocks on a weekly basis and ensure that the various SKUs are available and that the Distributors meet their monthly targets.
• Develop and execute action plans in case the Distributor falls short on his/her monthly target.
• Develop and execute a training plan for the team (together with the Region Training Manager).
• Monitor the team’s performance and provide feedback to them on a regular basis.
• Work together with the Marketing team to execute and track activities in the territory.

Job Requirements

• PAN Nigeria
• Minimum 5 Years of experience in sales
• 3 Years as Area Sales Manager or equivalent
• Graduate
• Age should not be more than 35 Years
• Must possess good analytical and computing skills.
• Proficiency in Information tracking, MS Excel analytics and power point presentation.