Purpose of the Role
The individual in the role is responsible for achieving sales targets for the assigned territory across the following:
1) Lead & manage ready stock units for retail & wholesale distribution across urban territories through appointed RDS.
2) Lead & manage super-stockiest, sub DB and Sales Team.
Key Responsibilities S&D Operations
- Responsible for: - Achieving revenue targets for the territory
- - Ensuring periodic primary business from the channel partners
- -Ensuring timely offload of monthly targets, schemes, special agendas and incentives to the Sales Team.
- - Daily monitoring of sales and retail productivity and weekly sales review
- - Continuous on the job training of Sales Team.
- - Verifying the updating/ operation of Beats through Field Assist.
- - Daily market visits of at least one route per day.
- - Monitoring secondary sales and closing stock of all distributors to ensure secondary sales are in line with primary.
- -Rollout of sales automation process ensuring adherence to automation adoption
- - Driving leading indicators like productivity percentage, lines sold, throughput etc.
- - PJP (Permanent Journey Plan) Sales Team.
- - Channel wise business plan (split between retail, wholesale and rural)
Sales & Business - Responsible for ensuring success of sales development
- Development projects undertaken by the company- adding new units, new sub-stockiest, wholesalers
- - Increase distribution of all brands (Numeric Distribution- adding no. of new outlets or coverage & Weighted Distribution- share of a category in a particular market)
- - Execution of launch of new products
- - Ensure to increase lines sold, effective coverage, productivity, VPO (value per outlet)
- - Ensure to increase billing efficiency of distributors product- wise
- - Appointment of new / replacement distributor
In-Store Communication - Execution of marketing and promotional activities. - Track and monitor competitor's products & activities - Merchandising - ensure visibility of stock in stores - Market hygiene maintenance, including distributor hygiene - Plan and implement promotional schemes in coordination with Rds.
- - Execution of marketing and promotional activities.
- - Track and monitor competitor's products & activities
- - Merchandising - ensure visibility of stock in stores
- - Market hygiene maintenance, including distributor hygiene
- - Plan and implement promotional schemes in coordination with Rds.
Distributor & Route '- Conduct routine visits to distributors
Management - Maintain & develop relationships with existing distributors -Supervise collection, pending payments & debtors status to ensure nil outstanding - Ensure active participation and involvement of the channel partners to push sales. - Develop and maintain efficient & optimum distribution network to ensure comprehensive availability of product and service across the territory. - Evaluate & monitor distributor performance at regular intervals to address performance gaps effectively. - Undertake stock management at the distributor level. - Super and sub stockiest appointments/shortlisting for market expansion. - Ensure timely claim submissions of the distributors.
- - Maintain & develop relationships with existing distributors
- -Supervise collection, pending payments & debtors status to ensure nil outstanding
- -Ensure active participation and involvement of the channel partners to push sales.
- -Develop and maintain efficient & optimum distribution network to ensure comprehensive availability of product and service across the territory.
- -Evaluate & monitor distributor performance at regular intervals to address performance gaps effectively.
- -Undertake stock management at the distributor level.
- -Super and sub stockiest appointments/shortlisting for market expansion.
- -Ensure timely claim submissions of the distributors.
People Management - Lead and manage sales team. - To ensure that Sales Team are achieving the targets and earning incentive through the distributors. - Maintain a database of prospective Sales Team to ensure talent pipeline for managing attrition by keeping vacant man days to minimum.
- - Lead and manage sales team.
- - To ensure that Sales Team are achieving the targets and earning incentive through the distributors.
- - Maintain a database of prospective Sales Team to ensure talent pipeline for managing attrition by keeping vacant man days to minimum.