Representative Sales

Job Summary

At Premier, we recruit and invest in our employees for the long term. We believe that our growth depends on us having the right people with the right skills and the right attitude. We have a high-performance environment that attracts like-minded people who want to be their best every day and in doing so we grow together. The Representative Sales will be responsible to ensure growth of profitable volume in the channel / geographical area allocated to them by focusing on maintaining and growing new and existing business.

Qualification Requirements

• Matric or equivalent qualification
• Code 08 driver’s license

Experience Requirements

• 3-5 years Sales FMCG experience
• Planning and organizing
• Networking skills
• Creative Thinking
• Brand strategy
• Results/Target oriented
• Negotiations and persuasion
• Interpersonal skills
• Analytical thinking
• Sales and Marketing skills
• Implementation
• Customer relationship building

Skills and Competencies

• Build and maintain good customer relationships by route-riding, adhering to call cycle and doing cold calling as and when required.
• To render effective sales services to all customers in line with the requirements of the SOP’s, practices and procedures.
• Stock and Price management
• New business accounts
• Customer Service
• Trade Execution
• Administration
• Communication
• Interdepartmental synergy
• Identify the need for promotional activities/ materials and coordinate this with the relevant stakeholders.
• Provide coaching guidelines to the sales crew and merchandiser on ad-hoc basis regarding issues that may impact sales services.
• In Trade Route Management: Route Riding, Returns & driver Performance interviews

Working Conditions

Able to work in a high performance, results oriented environment

Ability to deliver results through bakery teams

Pressurized environment

6-day position Required to work Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays as per business needs