Acting jobs in South Africa

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This Position reports to :

Marketing & Sales Manager

In this role, you will have the opportunity to drive service sales processes, generate service sales opportunities and secure profitable sales within the designated areas.

Each day, you will focus on Installed Base (IB) penetration and selling the entire Service product portfolio.

You will also showcase your expertise by building long-term customer relationships and ensuring immediate response to specific customer needs and issues.

This role is contributing to the Electrification Service Sales in KZN Region and other export countries.

Penetrating into IB, promoting various upgrades, retrofits, and value-add solutions to the benefit of the customers and ABB.

Understanding the channel strategy and the establishment of related prices, and preparing sales plans, reviewing them, and proposing recovery plan(s) when needed.

Generating service sales leads and developing new market opportunities by utilizing market trend information and through identifying and exploring potential new service portfolios.

Acting as a marketer / salesperson of ABB's service products and solutions during marketing activities (campaigns, trade fairs, exhibitions, conferences, customer meetings).

You will join a dynamic, talented, high performing ELSE sales and marketing team, where you will be able to thrive.

10 years' Service Sales experience in low voltage and medium voltage equipment and service offerings is a must

Proven track record of consistently surpassing targets

Excellent knowledge of ABB service offering

Good knowledge of ABB products / systems and service solutions

Significant sales drive, focus energy to achieve and close profitable deals.

Ability to push himself / herself to develop in line with the changes in the organization

Excellent skills in Customer relations : Show a mature selling behavior and actively drives discussions and negotiations to the benefit of the business with customers

Good knowledge in contract negotiations and contract risk management

Understand and use sales processes and related tools

Ability to identify customer service needs and to match those with ABB service offerings.

Ability to find innovative solutions to meet customer service requirements.

Actively demonstrates one ABB approach including teamwork ahead of personal objectives

Preference will be given to previously disadvantaged candidates in line with the company's employment equity targets.

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