Job Description
Location: Ruiru,
Gross Salary: 30K-40K,
Our client is a dairy manufacturing company. They seek to hire a Sales and Marketing Officer who will to generate revenue through sales while offering excellent customer experience.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Setting sales goals and developing sales strategies.
• Researching prospects and generating leads.
• Research to identify sellers of raw milk.
• Contacting potential and existing customers on the phone, by email, and in person.
• Generating sales opportunities by identifying appropriate business targets
• Providing a professional and excellent level of customer service with existing and new customers.
• Ensure timely sale of fresh milk and related products to customers and distributors
• Research to identify customers, sector opportunities and maintain existing ones to increase customer base
• Research competitor market and monitor trends in sales
• Advise on any new methods to help increase sales
• Grow and retain existing clients by building long-term and trusting relationships with customers and maintaining client records
• Attend to customer inquiries and queries and escalate to the head of sales if necessary.
• Take daily orders from customers and distributors.
• Carry out any other duties as may be assigned to you from time to time by your immediate supervisor.
Key Qualifications
• A Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing or a related discipline from a recognized institution
• A minimum of three years of experience in a similar position.
• Preferred experience working in food manufacturing industry especially dairy industry.
• High-level communication and networking skills
• Qualifications and Proficiency in computers applications.
• Must demonstrate ability to work independently with minimum supervision.
• Must be a team player who is able to work cordially in teams
• Must demonstrate commitment to operational effectiveness
• Must be creative and able to work under pressure
• Must be a flexible person, who is willing to learn and able to work flexible hours to achieve goals