Summary
Date Posted: Monday, June 19 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Description
• We’re on the lookout for an experienced Field Supervisors who will ensure growth for clients, customers and Smollan by proactively influencing and managing relationships between the client, customers and employees; spotting opportunities and providing insights; managing the resources required to ensure efficient and effective day-to-day operations; and acting as a Smollan people custodian.
• As a Field Supervisor you will be responsible for:

General responsibilities:
• Support manager in managing day-to-day operating expenditure against operating budgets to ensure efficient usage of resources.
• Communicate and ensure understanding of promotional activities and objectives by field team.
• Check availability of point-of-sale materials in stores. Ensure promotional activities have been implemented and maintained.
• Check to ensure generic, store-specific planograms and category flows are implemented/maintained.
• Check shelf-health is implemented and maintained. Provide feedback to clients on slow/fast sellers and recommend appropriate actions to achieve sales targets.
• Ensure proper management of stock in stock rooms.
• Ensure forward share is equal with market share. Provide regular feedback to clients on forward share changes.
• Compile trade contact reports
• Collect and give feedback using available feedback platforms usage (e.g. manual tracking, SMART, etc.)
• Gather reports/insights on competitor's activities, promotions, rotation of stock, product recalls, pricing, planogram and new innovations.
• Attend review meetings with clients, if requested

Leadership responsibilities:
• Guide team to ensure effective delivery of team’s goals.
• Drive learning and development of team in Field Marketing and DKSH behaviours to achieve team/function goals.
• Drive self-learning and improvement in Field Marketing and DKSH behaviours as part of continuous learning.

Functional skills and knowledge:
• Demonstrate basic experience in fast moving consumer goods, field sales and marketing.
• Demonstrate basic numeracy and quantitative analysis skills.
• Proven competency to handle confidential/sensitive information in an appropriate and secure manner.
• Demonstrate fluency in local language and ideally in English, both written and spoken
• Demonstrate proficiencies in office productivity tools (e.g. Excel, Word and PowerPoint)

Requirements
What are we looking for?
To qualify for this role, you should have
• 2- 3 Years’ or more experience in the FMCG Industry as a senior sales representative
• Degree, Higher or Basic Diploma in sales & marketing or relevant field
• Sales Management
• People management
• Administration skills
• Customer Service Skills
• Communication Skills (verbal & written)

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
• Interested and qualified? Go to Smollan on smollaneastafrica.mcidirecthire.com to apply

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