EXECUTIVE N - PROJECT SALES

Asian Paints Limited; Ahmedabad District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Asian Paints Limited is seeking a frontline Sales Manager to drive sales in project segments with a strong customer focus and ability to understand primary and secondary sales dynamics.

Role includes nurturing key relationships with builders, architects, consultants, and applicators; developing growth plans; and collaborating with Retail, Services and Commercial teams to ensure timely service and market expansion.

Qualifications

• MBA / PGDM in Sales and Marketing from a Tier II B-School with minimum 50% marks.
• Graduation and post-graduation must be completed through full-time courses.
• Strong customer focus and ability to manage key stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Plan growth for project sales in each identified segment.
• Identify opportunities to gain market share with key accounts, segments and geographies.
• Build and maintain relationships with builders, architects, and consultants.
• Develop and nurture the applicator network with loyalty and promotions.
• Collaborate with Retail, Services and Commercial teams for leads and timely service.

Skills

Customer focus

Stakeholder management

Education

MBA / PGDM in Sales and Marketing from Tier II B-School

Minimum 50% marks throughout education

Graduation and Post-Graduation must be full-time

Job description

The position is that of a frontline sales Manager who would primarily be responsible for driving sales in different segments of project sales and having a strong customer focus, ability to understand dynamics of secondary and primary sales and has the ability to nurture and manage the network and stakeholders thereby, achieving overall business objectives.

Business Responsibility Areas

Business objectives

• Conduct planning and analysis for all segments in Project Sales and prepare growth plan for business development in each segment
• Identify growth opportunities and drive initiatives to gain market share with specific focus on identified key accounts, segments, geographies and products
• Design and run interventions to upgrade customers on usage of high end premium products
• Ensure strong customer focus with high priority to build and maintain business relations with key stakeholders like builders, architects, consultants etc.
• Develop relationships with and engage applicators using various tools available at his disposal like loyalty club, promotions etc.
• Focus on Applicator business development by developing a strong understanding of the business of the applicators
• Expand the number of applicators loyal to Asian Paints by constantly adding newer applicators and nurturing the old ones.

Market Development

• Improve market practices, with a view to providing superior customer experience, through various initiatives like contractor professionalization, promoting usage of automated tools etc.
• Actively liaison with marketing function via various activities like providing feedback, activations, actively tracking competition practices etc.
• Actively work towards improving customer experience via working on various service initiatives

Integrate

• Integrate with Retail, Services and Commercial teams to ensure lead generation, timely customer service, freight cost within budget and dealer account reconciliation
• Analyze and estimate the stock requirement and integrate with Supply Chain to ensure timely material availability
• Monitor the Input Utilization within the permissible limits

Team Management

• Ensure growth and development of immediate team
• Productive utilization of manpower resources to drive business growths

Qualifications

• Essential
• Applicant must possess MBA / PGDM in Sales and Marketing from Tier II B-School
• Minimum of 50% marks throughout the education without any backlogs
• Graduation and Post-Graduation must be through a full time course