Job Title: Lubes Sales Engineer
SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
– Maintain, meet and exceed current Commercial/Retail lubes Customer’s requirement
– Recruit new Commercial Customers and sign up new distributors/independent Outlets while ensuring old Customers are retained
– Maintain minimum stock of lubes at warehouses under them and subsequently in Retail Outlets being covered.
– Train Branch Managers, Lubes sales force (including attendants/ dealers/ distributors) and organize lubes seminars/clinics/surveys for Commercial users
– Research, monitor market trends, competitors’ activities and consumer preferences
– Develop strategies and plan for the promotion and sales of Lubes
– Plan, direct and coordinate Customer service strategies and manage customer relationships.
– Carries out sales of Lubricants to Commercial and Retail channels
– Give logistics support to the Customer Care Unit through product Stock management in warehouses
– Carry out programmed survey to ascertain Customers preferences/suggestions and feedbacks
– Manage Lubes warehouses
– Identify strategic locations, deploy and drive Kiosk sales of lubes through Retail Off-forecourt channels
– Identify, engage and drive viable Independent Outlets in coverage area
– Monitor and push Retail bulk oil sales at Outlets and other locations
– Develop and implement lubes initiatives/ strategies that will maximize volume and margin contribution to the overall lubes department objective
– Ensures that all lubricant spot buyers across branches being covered are captured
– Reviews and prepare performance and monitoring reports
– Supervises all activities in the lubricant warehouses
– Supervises all BMs within coverage area on all lubricant sales and activities
– Supports the LM in planning/budgeting decisions
– Liaises with KLP/LM to bring initiatives (product) into the market to satisfy customers and edge out competition
REQUIREMENTS
– A good university degree in Engineering
– Minimum of 2 –5 years post graduation with relevant experience in marketing
– Product Knowledge
– Strategic Marketing
– General Business Knowledge
– Research
– Reporting
– Innovative
– Entrepreneurship
– Customer focus/orientation
– Result orientation
– Good negotiating skills
– Information sourcing
– PC Utilisation (Excel, Word, Power Point)
– Organizational skills
(Note: All candidates with less than 3 years post NYSC will be required
to pass an aptitude test before they can be considered for interview)
Closing Date is June 30, 2011
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