National Sales Operations Manager

SUMMARY:
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POSITION INFO:

Our FMCG manufacturing client is looking for a National Sales Manager to join their growing business.

Skills/Personal Attributes:

• A passion for delivering results and the drive to exceed expectations.
• Adjusting actions in relation to others'' actions to coordinate activities.
• Strong negotiating and organisational skills with a sense of priority for deadlines and attention to detail.
• Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or operations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the task.
• Excellent decision making and problem-solving skills.
• A passion for delivering an outstanding customer experience.
• Ability to be flexible to meet business needs.
• Managing one''s own time and the time of others
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal).
• A team player.
• High level of stress tolerance; performing steadily and effectively under time pressure, regardless of setbacks, disappointments or opposition. React calmly and in proportion to the significance of the issue at hand.
• Self-motivated and a strong commitment to personal development.
• Professional approach and attitude.
• Intermediate to advanced skill level with Microsoft Office software – Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Matrix.
• Been a change agent.
• Be analytically minded and possess excellent negotiating skills to secure the best prices according to budget.
• Process requisitions and update management on status of orders.
• Solid understanding of costings.
• Ability to lead a sale team.

Authority

• The authority to lead the investigation & decision-making processes & possess necessary Food Safety knowledge to execute a successful product recall.
• The authority to delegated upwards - this means that if they are unavailable for any reason and there is no suitable backup or the backup is unavailable, then they have the authority to appoint a member of Top Management to handle all Food Safety & Product Recall Responsibilities.

Qualification and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or related field.
• Experience in planning and implementing sales strategies.
• Experience in customer relationship management.
• Experience managing and directing a sales team.
• Experience in FMCG key account management.
• LEAN principals
• FSSC 22000, ISO 45000, 18000 and 9001

Please apply directly online if you meet the above requirements. Please note, due to a very high influx of CVs, our consultants cannot reply to all applicants; because of this we will ONLY contact candidates who are deemed suitable. If you do not hear back from a consultant within 5 to 10 working days of your application, please consider yourself unsuccessful this time around.

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