Sales Consultant (Remote â Overberg / Winelands Area)

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EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Permanent

BASIC SALARY: R15 000.00

START DATE: A.S.A.P / Immediate

REQUIREMENTS:

• Matric certificate (Grade 12) essential
• Marketing or Sales Degree / Diploma or other relevant qualification advantageous
• Minimum of 2 years experience in sales and marketing
• Bilingual Fluent in Afrikaans and English (non-negotiable)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Must have own transport and a valid drivers license (non-negotiable)
• Innovative mindset always willing to research and explore new methods to generate sales

DUTIES:

Monthly sales reports vs budget:

• Drive sales to meet the budgeted sales and report performance at monthly review.
• Weekly sales activities focusing on new clients (GFSI Intermediate, ISO 22000 and FSSC 22000 small to medium-sized manufacturers):
• Meeting the agreed monthly sales activities vs targets every month.
• Weekly reporting on sales activities vs target by 15h00 every Friday.

Activities include:

• Cold calls, follow-up calls, courtesy calls
• Emails
• Client visits
• Mailchimp subscriptions
• Planning and coordinating consultants calendars based on client projects and planned training interventions (smooth communication between consultants and clients).

Planning and organizing training interventions to ensure client satisfaction:

• Liaising with clients, delegates, facilitators, and training venue to ensure smooth training intervention.
• Ensuring that the registration forms are completed by the delegates.
• Sending the required info to accounts in time to invoice per delegate before the training.
• Liaising with admin staff to ensure training material is printed and delegates have received the agendas before the training.
• Monitoring the quality of the intervention by contacting a few of the delegates after each training intervention.
• Reporting any concerns.
• Recording activities in CRM system and maintaining and updating the info in the CRM system.
• Sending client proposals / quotations within 2 working days from their request for quotation.
• Prepare neat and accurate client proposals for training.
• Attend weekly planning meetings with consultants, admin and other relevant parties to discuss weekly client commitments and future projects.
• Attending and participating in monthly franchise sales team meetings.
• Maintaining an organized electronic filing system for all the required client and sales information in OneDrive to ensure ease of reference.
• Timely response to queries from website as forwarded on from Head Office within 2 working days there should be a response to client enquiries.
• Implementing and reporting on biannual customer surveys.
• Assist with annual competitor benchmarking surveys.
• Assist with the research to contribute towards the annual sales and marketing strategy.
• You may be required to assist with other ad hoc duties over and above those listed to support other team members or to ensure that client relationships are professionally maintained.