- Managing Key sales accounts and selling goods and ensuring timely payment collection on telephone and field visits
- 7-8 years of progressively more responsible positions in sales, preferably in a similar industry in two different firms
- Experience supervising and managing a professional team of subordinates
- Strong effective communicator
- Highly developed, demonstrated teamwork skills
- Ability to coordinate the efforts of a large team of diverse creative employees and also develop and grow the team with fresh sales recruits
- Demonstrated ability to increase productivity and continuously improve methods, approaches, and departmental contribution. Commitment to continuous learning
- Demonstrated effectiveness in holding conversations with customers, customer evangelism, and customer-focused product development and outreach
- Demonstrated ability to see the big picture and provide useful advice and input across the company.
- Ability to lead in an environment of constant change
- Experience working in a flexible, employee empowering work environment. Structured or large company experience will not work here.
- Familiarity and skill with the tools of the trade in sales and marketing including PR, written communication, website development, market research, product packaging, Microsoft software suite of products, visual communication software products, and creative services are a PLUS
- Experience managing external PR and communication consulting firms and contractors
Job Requirements
The selected sales manager must be able to perform effectively in each of these areas:
- Researching and evaluating new product opportunities, demand for potential products, and customer needs and insights
- Overall sales strategy and execution of plans for the existing products
- Working with product development teams to manage new product development
- anaging launch campaigns for new products
- Managing distribution channels for products
- Ensuring effective, branded marketing communications including the company website, print communication, and advertising which will help to increase the sales
- Managing media and marketing staff and external PR agencies
- Analysis of the effectiveness of all sales and marketing efforts
Team Management
- Must have leadership qualities to manage a team and ensuring all data entries and postings are done accurately
- Motivating the slesteam from time to time and training the team to do their work efficiently and responsibly
- Must be willing to stay for a long period of time with the company and grow with the company rather than short term
Soft Skills- The most Important Skills
- Must be respectful to his seniors and management
- Must possess leadership skills and lead by example and must treat his subordinates and fellow colleagues with compassion and kindness
- Must be truthful and honest
- Must be willing to work overtime depending on the work pressure
- Must give his opinions to the management for the growth of the organization and must suggest ways to improve the current ways of operations
- Must keep all the information of the company secret
- Must be loyal to the company and help the company to realize its long term vision and goals