Key Focus
This role is responsible for the development of distribution strategy in order meet sales targets. The
incumbent is individually accountable for achieving results through others.
We are looking for a dedicated sales lead to coordinate our sales teams, ensure the team’s sales quotas
are met, and support the management. The sales lead will perform sales, management, and administrative
tasks, such as maintaining your sales performance, recruiting, and training staff.
Job Description
- Recruiting and training new sales staff, assigning specific tasks to other sales staff, and monitoring
the team’s sales performance. - Solving customer complaints and answering customers’ questions.
- Writing reports for senior managers.
- Assisting with the selling of our store’s products and services and assisting to maximize sales.
- Stocking shelves, setting up displays, ringing up merchandise and sales, and performing cleaning
duties. - Providing sales staff with constructive feedback and assisting staff to solve customers’ problems.
- Maintaining inventory, filling out paperwork, and possibly tasking sales workers with the buying of
more supplies. - Maintaining positive customer relations.
- Motivating the sales staff and creating an atmosphere of healthy competition among the staff.
- Manages sales & expense budget for a sales team in a branch against set targets
- Responsible for distribution strategy of products within its team branch
- Accountable for local marketing
- Identifies & creates coordinated sales opportunities
- Responsible for external networking & relationship building with key door openers
- Ensures delivery of customer value
- Manages, develops, appoints & trains sales officers
Key Result Areas
1. Compliance:
- Ensures compliance to process & procedures to minimize business risk
- Ensures delivery of customer value.
2. Sales/Productivity:
- Manages sales & expense budget for a sales team in a branch against set targets
- Identifies & creates coordinated sales opportunities
3. Marketing:
- Responsible for distribution strategy of products within a branch
- Accountable for local marketing
4. Team Effectiveness:
- Individually accountable for staff time, tasks and output quality, over periods of 3 months to a year
- Balances own priorities with directing and motivating others
- Plans & assigns work over periods of 3 months to a year
- Guides and directs staff to achieve operational excellence standards
- Creates a climate for optimal performance
5. Manages performance
- Selects potential staff to sustain customer/client service delivery
6. Relationship Building:
- Responsible for external networking & relationship building with key door openers
Qualifications and Experience
- A bachelor’s or associate degree in marketing, sales, or a related field may be advantageous.
- 3 years’ Experience in sales is necessary.
- Strong sales ability, business acumen, and commercial awareness.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and customer service skills.
- Strong leadership abilities.
- Good time management, strategic planning, and organizational skills.
How to Apply
Send your CV to: recruitment@marathon.ng
Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
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