Job Summary
About the roleDuties will include identifying prospective customers, following up on potential sales leads, and maintaining relationships with new customers effectively and efficiently in day-to-day operations. Provide or create marketing strategies designed for a target market.
Responsibilities
- Communicating with customers on a professional and high level.
- Making outbound calls to potential customers, current and development on new leads.
- Source new sales opportunities through inbound lead follow-up and outbound cold calls and emails.
- Creating and maintaining customer database.
- Understanding customer needs and making sure we can meet their deliveries from all angles.
- Explaining product features, and benefits, selling products and services (training will be given).
- Closing sales and achieving quotas.
- Aim for internal target growth.
- Research our current products and new marketing.
- Discuss pipeline business with the sales team.
- Manage a client’s projects and accounts from beginning to end.
- Forecasting and planning monthly for commodities based on customer’s needs, and new projects that are being worked on.
- Coordinate with the sales or support team in Jhb, so that the customer’s expectations are met.
- Product or business development within the business for strategic planning.
- Overall responsibility for financial matters including budgets and sales targets on a yearly basis.
- Reporting (content and format as agreed) weekly, and month-end reports.
- Adhere to all organization policies and procedures.
- Maintain accurate commercial records and place them under one drive.
Requirements
- Matric
- Computer literate (Knowledge of Syspro or related packages and Basic PowerPoint, MSWord, and MS Excel skills )
- Language - English fluency in speech and literacy
- Knowledge of the chemical industry. (Training will be given)
- The ability to cope with a diversity of tasks in a high-pressure environment.
- Excellent communicator with a strong sense of urgency.
- High achievement orientation.
- Excellent people skills.
- Concern for order, quality, and accuracy.
- High customer service orientation.
- Excellent telephone skills.
- Good admin skills.
- Team player.
- Must not have taken part in the YES Program before.
- South African unemployed youth aged between 18 and 34.
Please consider your application unsuccessful when you have not heard from the Signa Opportunity team within two weeks of submitting your application.