Sales Manager (Steel Manufacturing)
Location | Kampala, Uganda |
Date Posted | September 9, 2024 |
Category |
Management
Sales and Marketing |
Job Type |
Full-time
|
Currency | UGX |
Description
JOB DETAILS:
Qualifications:
• Degree in marketing and other related course
Experience:
• 2 years plus
Primary Responsibilities:
• Answer customers' questions about products, prices, availability, product uses, and credit terms.
• Contact regular and prospective customers to demonstrate products, explain product features, and solicit orders.
• Estimate or quote prices by use of price list, credit or contract terms and delivery dates.
• Visit potential customers for new business by initiating market research studies and analyzing their findings.
• Provide customers with quotations, brochures
Secondary Responsibilities
• Negotiate the terms of a sales agreement and close sale with the customer through details of contracts and payments, and prepare sales contracts and order forms.
• Gather market and customer information and provide feedback on buying trends to the Business development manager
• Represent Steel and Tube Industries at trade exhibitions, events and demonstrations
• Identify new markets and business opportunities that can be exploited by Steel and Tube industries Limited.
• Record sales and send copies to the Business Development Manager by writing and submitting periodic reports to the Business Development Manager.
• Identify prospective customers by using business directories, following leads from existing clients, participating in organizations and clubs, and attending trade shows and conferences.
• Monitor market conditions, product innovations, and competitors' products, prices, and sales.
• Recommend products to customers, based on customers' needs and interests.
• Negotiate with retail merchants to improve product exposure such as shelf positioning and advertising.
• Obtain credit information about prospective customers. Keep accurate & relevant client information.
• Establish close working relationships with the stockists in order to gain high levels of stockist support and loyalty whilst enhancing understanding of the trading environment.
• To understand, Implement and maintain all ISO systems in the company.
• Perform any other duties as they may be assigned
Authority:
• Reports to Sales Head.
Interfaces: (titles of people you deal with, e.g., from other departments, sections, customers)
• Regional Sales Manager, Marketing manager
• Customers
Health, Safety and Environmental responsibilities and Ethics:
• Ensure cleanliness in and around the workplace.
• Enforce PPE usage by employees in the plant at all times.
• Guidance and on-the job training of workers especially new ones in good environmental maintenance and safer working procedures in order to reduce occupational accidents.
• Assist management to identify resources required to improve EHS in the company.
• Ensure good housekeeping in the plant i.e., immediate cleaning of coolants and oil spillages, emptying of waste bins, shift of scrap from respective workplace.
• Ensure proper use of waste bins and their availability at the designated respective locations in the plant
• Assist in taking corrective actions for any EHS deficiencies identified during audits or day to day observations
• Help casualties get immediate medical attention and also work closely with HR and systems coordinator during accidents/incident investigations
• Facilitate security of company staff and property.
• Promote health and safety at the workplace.
• Encourage teamwork for the purpose of a smooth and prosperous management
• Help create a culture and atmosphere of hard work and high personal integrity.
• Safeguard the company's systems and Terms and Conditions of employment.