The posting
Position: Channel Sales Manager
Job Family: Sales (FMCG)
Reports To: Sales Director
Department: Sales
Role Purpose:
- To manage a number of Distribution accounts. To be responsible for building FDCs business across all categories by leveraging the Distributor reach and salesforce.
Key Accountabilities:
- Design the monthly sales plan for his division in cooperation with the sales supervisors and within the guidelines set by the sales Director
- Recommend to the sales Director sales plans & Strategies, policies and procedures related to achieving all set targets
- Reports Market intelligence & Sales Teams performance to the Sales Director
- Achieve targets (Sales and Collection) as set with sales management in accordance with the company's annual sales plan
- Supervises the day-to-day operation of the Channel, to ensure that all company policies and procedures are respected
- Ensures that supervisors and sales representatives are relaying the image of the company in the best way, by promoting the company's portfolio in a professional way to ensure proper distribution & penetration
- Monitors the proper & effective merchandising and pricing of the company's portfolio in his Channel by conducting regular market visits
- Controls the performance of his sales force through the comparison of actual vs. target, and advise supervisors in terms of guidelines and coaching
- Provide on the job training to the sales supervisors and sales representatives and assist them in solving problems with clients, as well as issues with other departments within the company
- Follows-up on accounts receivables in coordination with the sales supervisors and credit, and handles the cases of delayed payments
- Conducts quarterly KPIs for all channels sales team
- Ensures all business agreement are finalized on time & properly executed
Human Resources Management Department
- Maintains good relations with other departments such as credit / billing and operations
- Implements and controls marketing visibility campaigns or marketing plans
- Extracts all needed information concerning sales, distribution of sales team to highlight progress of total business
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Business Administration, or marketing or related field.
Experience
- 5 years experience in the FMCG field 3 of which ought to be at a managerial level.
Skills and Knowledge
- Languages: Arabic, English (French is a plus)
- Computer literacy: MS windows applications (Essential: Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint)
- Analytical & communication Skills
- Problem Solving
- Decision Making
- Negotiation Skills
Competencies
- Leading and Supervising
- Working with People
- Adhering to Principles and Values
- Relating and Networking
- Persuading and Influencing
- Writing and Reporting
- Analyzing
- Creating and Innovating
- Formulating Strategies and Concepts
- Planning and Organizing
- Adapting and Responding to Change
- Coping with Pressure and Setbacks
- Achieving Personal Work Goals and Objectives
- Entrepreneurial and Commercial Thinking



