Job Title: Sales and Marketing Executive
Employer: HR Solutions Ltd
Duty Station: Dar Es Salaam
Application Deadline: Jul 31, 2013
Position Description:
Job purpose:
To plan and carry out direct marketing and sales activities, so as to maintain
and develop sales in accordance with agreed business plans.
Key responsibilities and accountabilities:
Maintain and develop a computerized customer and prospect database.
Plan and carry out direct marketing activities to agreed budgets, sales
volumes, values, product mix and timescales.
Develop ideas and create offers for direct mail and marketing products.
Respond to and follow up sales enquiries by post, telephone, and personal
visits.
Maintain and develop existing and new customers through planned individual
account support, and liaison with internal order-processing staff.
Monitor and report on activities and provide relevant management information.
Carry out market research, competitor and customer surveys.
Maintain and report on equipment and software suitability for direct marketing
and sales reporting purposes.
Liaise and attend meetings with other company functions necessary to perform
duties and aid business and organizational development.
Manage the external marketing agency activities of telemarketing and research.
Attend training and to develop relevant knowledge and skills.
Person profile – Sales and Marketing Executive
Personality:
Self-driven, results-oriented with a positive outlook, and a clear focus on
high quality and business profit. A natural forward planner who critically
assesses own performance. Mature, credible, and comfortable in dealing with
senior big company executives. Reliable, tolerant, and determined. Empathic
communicator, able to see things from the other person’s point of view. Well
presented and businesslike. Sufficiently mobile and flexible to travel up to a
few days a month within the Country. Keen for new experience, responsibility
and accountability. Able to get on with others and be a team-player.
Personal Situation:
Must be mature and domestically secure. Able to spend one or two nights away
per month without upsetting domestic situation. Able to commute reliably to
office base. Able to work extended hours on occasions when required. May be
striving financially but not desperate or in serious debt. Must have clean or
near clean driving licence.
Specific Job Skills:
Able to communicate and motivate via written media. Understands the principles
of marketing and advertising cost-effectiveness, including market sector
targeting, product offer development, features-benefits-solutions selling, cost
per response, cost per conversion, etc. Appreciates need for consistency within
company’s branding and marketing mix, especially PR and the Internet.
Experience of managing marketing agency activities useful.
Computer skills:
Must be adept in use of MS Office 2000 or later, particularly Excel and Word,
and ideally Access or similar database to basic level, Internet and email.
Literacy and Numeracy:
Able to understand profit and loss calculations and basic business finance,
eg., gross margin percentages and calculations, depreciation, capital and
revenue expenditure, cash-flow, overheads, etc. Must be a very competent writer
of business letters, quotations and proposals.
Business and Selling Skills:
Must be an excellent face-to-face and telephone communicator. Able to
demonstrate success and experience managing major accounts customers and large
contracts or even a business, particularly achieving genuine sales development.
Ideal background would be in business support services; experience of washroom
and contract cleaning industries would be particularly helpful. Experience of
tenders would also be useful.
Management Ability:
Though internal staff management is not initially part of the job,
responsibility and opportunity could grow with the development of the business,
for example the prospect of recruiting and managing support telesales staff.
Some people-management skills, experience and natural ability will be useful.
Application Instructions:
1. Application letter
2. CV
3. Passport size photograph
4. Copy of Passport / Identification card / Vote
identification card
5. Copy of Certificates ( Academics , Birth , Driving
license)
6. 3 References Contacts
7. Certificate of Service from past employer ( if any )
8. NSSF PPF etc ( If registered)
All the above documents to be certified.
Failure to compile the above requirements the application will not be
considered.
Remuneration:
Competitive package as per industry norms will be offered.
Apply to:
The Recruitment Department
HR Solutions Ltd
Plot No 19
Vingunguti Industrial Area
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Only short listed candidates will be contacted
