Sales Team Leader

Our Clientis an FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods) national distributor in Tanzania, with its operations mostly concentrated in Northern and Eastern Tanzania. The company was established in 1967. It’s a family run business in its 3rd generation and has grown ever since its humble beginnings to being a multi-divisional outfit today. It is also one of the largest, of the few well-organized distributors of FMCG products in the country and has traditionally been a preferred distribution partner for various manufacturers within Tanzania.  They are currently looking to hire a dynamics Sales Team Leader – under its Plastics Manufacturing unit.

Industry:  FMCG / Plastics

Job Title: Sales Team Leader


Job Summary
Guide the team that is charged with a product line contribution as a business unit. This extends from increasing the profitability of existing products to developing new productsfor the company.

Job Location: Arusha, Tanzania

Type of Hire:  Tanzanian (preferred) or Kenyan National

Job Description:
· Should monitor the sales team and encourage sales by being a team player
· Should monitor sales per product and work an achievement of sales budgets
· Should monitor and increase presence of the products across all regions where feasible and possible
· Develop new customers and products which will add value to the company in line with its strategy.
· Collect direct orders from large customers/ co-ordinate delivery for all other sales team leads.
· Achieve targets for revenue, profitability and sales growth – increasing market share within the stipulated margins by company directors.
· Developing and implementing a company-wide go-to-market plan, working with all departments to execute.

Desired Skills& Experience:
· Bachelors Degree in BA / Marketing
· 6+ years of Sales/Marketing within Plastics Manufacturing Industry
· Knowledge & experience in blow moulding & Injection moulding.
· Ability to travel to customer and non-customer sites
· Demonstrated success in defining and launching successful products.
· Fluent in English (reading/understanding, spoken, written)
· Exceptional organizational and analytical skills
· Good communication and presentation skills - both verbal and written
· Active listening - ability to understand requirements
· A high attention to detail
· Proactive problem solver
· Client focused
· Deadline driven (Time management)
· Self-motivated

How to Apply:
Send your CV (in Word format) titled with your Namevia email with the Subject Line as “Sales Team Leader”to jobs@genesisconsult.net not later than 27 March2015. No phone calls please.