Mr D - Partner Account Manager

Takealot.com; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 420,000 - 640,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Online Learning

Birthday leave

Free parking

Social events

Job summary

Mr D, a division of the Takealot Group, in Johannesburg, seeks a Partner Account Manager to join our team and drive restaurant acquisitions on the Mr D platform. You will lead relationships with restaurant partners and manage the sign-up process, building a strong sales pipeline.

Reporting to the Sales Lead for Mr D, you will identify partners, monitor performance, and deliver timely solutions while upholding visit standards in a fast-paced ecommerce environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in marketplace, ecommerce SAAS or hospitality sales.
• Minimum 1 year prior sales experience.
• Proficiency in using CRM tools preferred.
• Prior experience in hospitality industry preferred.
• Tertiary qualification advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Identify and prioritize suitable restaurant partners for the Mr D platform
• Create and maintain a robust sales pipeline
• Own the restaurants sign-up process
• Operate as the lead point of contact for restaurant partners
• Strengthen relationships with restaurant partners and monitor their business and store performance
• Ensure timeous and effective solutions and feedback to restaurant partners
• Ensure strict restaurant visit standards are maintained

Skills

Customer-focused mindset

Negotiation skills

Closing skills

Self-motivation

Fast-paced adaptability

Education

Tertiary qualification advantageous

Tools

CRM tools

Job description

Mr D , a division of the Takealot Group is looking for a highly talented Partner Account Manager to join our team in Johannesburg.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us!

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• Scale : Show the millions of Mr D customers what you can do
• Learn : We work with the best of the best, and then some.
• Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: Takealot.com and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.

This position reports to the Sales Lead for Mr D.

Purpose of this role:To assist the sales team in achieving it's overall restaurant acquisition goals. This rolespecifically looks after small portfolios of restaurants in our outlying service areas and issupported by Account Manager and Sales Area Leads.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Identify and prioritize suitable restaurant partners for the Mr D platform
• Create and maintain a robust sales pipeline
• Own the restaurants sign-up process
• Operate as the lead point of contact for restaurant partners
• Strengthen relationships with restaurant partners and monitor their business and store performance
• Ensure timeous and effective solutions and feedback to restaurant partners
• Ensure strict restaurant visit standards are maintained
• Identify and prioritize suitable restaurant partners for the Mr D platform
• Create and maintain a robust sales pipeline
• Own the restaurants sign-up process
• Operate as the lead point of contact for restaurant partners
• Strengthen relationships with restaurant partners and monitor their business and store performance
• Ensure timeous and effective solutions and feedback to restaurant partners
• Ensure strict restaurant visit standards are maintained

Attributes required:

• A highly customer-focused mindset and consultative sales approach.
• Excellent negotiation and closing skills
• A highly customer-focused mindset and consultative sales approach
• Excellent negotiation and closing skills
• Strong knowledge of the local restaurant industry
• Exhibit the ability to self motivate
• Extremely competitive and relentless; a love for winning
• Ability to work and keep up in a fast paced environment
• Accurate
• Must have own transport

Qualifications:

• Experience in marketplace, ecommerce SAAS or hospitality sales
• Minimum 1 year Prior sales experience
• Proficiency in using CRM tools preferred
• Prior experience in the hospitality industry preferred
• Tertiary qualification advantageous

Let’s talk about life @ Mr D

• The power is in your hands : We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.
• No doors : We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab and make something great.
• Online Learning : Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Up-skill with free access to courses on Prosus Academy and more.
• Good times : Get to know the other extraordinary minds in the takealot group during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).
• Birthday leave : Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it.
• Help when you need it most : Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere.
• Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to).

Like what you see?

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!

Mr D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference