Unga Holding is a market leader in the manufacturing & provision of superior human nutrition, animal nutrition and animal health products and services within Eastern Africa.Unga family brands are milled using superior quality grains, selected to achieve high customer satisfaction levels at the same time ensuring that the nutritional value is retained ...

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Ruminant Advisor

Job Type

Full Time

Qualification

BA/BSc/HND , Diploma

Experience

Location

Nairobi

Job Field

Sales / Marketing / Retail / Business Development

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

New Product Development

• Identify market gaps and revamp the product category.
• Identify market gaps, research market opportunities and customer/market needs, propose and develop new products to increase revenue.
• Conduct products demonstration trials or Market Acceptance Study for product acceptance in the market and build customer confidence.

Technical Advisory

• Provide technical support to the UFCEA sales team on new and base products
• Identify technical gaps and continually develop training materials to empower and boost UFCEA sales team confidence for more customer engagement aimed at increasing market share.
• Collaborate with the relevant stakeholders in technical trainings to improve confidence on UFCEA team’s expertise and keep abreast on modern and emerging technologies aimed at increasing market share growth.

Sales and Market share growth

• Research on market development and develop and execute strategic plans to increase sales volume/revenue
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders in the livestock industry to empower clients (through trainings) for more sales volumes/revenue.
• New products follow-up to maturity.

Team work

• Maintain healthy relationships for smooth operations.
• Identify technical gaps and build capability for the team.
• Collaborate in complaint handling.

Job Requirements

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Animal Sciences with experience in the Livestock value chain
• Post Graduate Diploma in International Animal Health (IAH)
• Valid driving License.

• Identify market gaps and revamp the product category.
• Identify market gaps, research market opportunities and customer/market needs, propose and develop new products to increase revenue.
• Conduct products demonstration trials or Market Acceptance Study for product acceptance in the market and build customer confidence.
• Provide technical support to the UFCEA sales team on new and base products
• Identify technical gaps and continually develop training materials to empower and boost UFCEA sales team confidence for more customer engagement aimed at increasing market share.
• Collaborate with the relevant stakeholders in technical trainings to improve confidence on UFCEA team’s expertise and keep abreast on modern and emerging technologies aimed at increasing market share growth.
• Research on market development and develop and execute strategic plans to increase sales volume/revenue
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders in the livestock industry to empower clients (through trainings) for more sales volumes/revenue.
• New products follow-up to maturity.
• Maintain healthy relationships for smooth operations.
• Identify technical gaps and build capability for the team.
• Collaborate in complaint handling.

• Technical support
• Product demonstration
• Market research
• Sales strategy development
• Training material development
• Customer engagement
• Stakeholder collaboration
• Complaint handling

• Bachelor’s Degree in Animal Sciences with experience in the Livestock value chain
• Post Graduate Diploma in International Animal Health (IAH)
• Valid driving License.