Job Description

Achieves marketing and sales operational objectives by contributing marketing and sales information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; identifying trends, implementing change and achieving the maximum sales target of the company.

Work Activities

• Identifying new markets and business opportunities and arranging meetings with potential customers
• Visiting potential customers for new business and developing and maintaining relationships
• Advising on forthcoming product developments and discussing special promotions.
• Maintain and develop good relationship with customers through personal contact or meetings or via telephone etc.
• Must act as a bridge between the company and its existing and potential markets.
• Display efficiency in gathering market and customer info to enable negotiations regarding variations in prices, delivery and customer specifications to their managers.
• Help management in forthcoming products and discuss on special promotions.
• Review their own performance and aim at exceeding their targets.
• Record sales and order information and report the same to the sales department.
• Provide accurate feedback on future buying trends to their respective employers.
• Provide customers with quotations 
• Negotiate the terms of an agreement and close sales 
• Gather market and customer information and provide feedback on buying trends 
• Represent your organisation at trade exhibitions, events and demonstrations 
• Identify new markets and business opportunities 
• Record sales and send copies to the sales office 
• listening to customer requirements and presenting appropriately to make a sale;
• cold calling to arrange meetings with potential customers to prospect for new business.
• negotiating on price, costs, delivery and specifications with buyers and managers;
• challenging any objections with a view to getting the customer to buy;
• liaising with suppliers to check the progress of existing orders;
• checking the quantities of goods on display and in stock;
• gaining a clear understanding of customers' businesses and requirements
• making accurate, rapid cost calculations and providing customers with quotations;
• attending team meetings and sharing best practice with colleagues.

Required Skills or Experience

• This area of work is open to persons with a Diploma or HND in Marketing.
• Pre experience with an alcoholic beverage industry is an added bonus.
• At least 2-5 years of relevant experience with a beverage industry
• 25 – 35 years