Job Title: Sales Manager
Organisation: The Motorcenter
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: General Manager
About US:
The Motorcenter East Africa Ltd started as Go Nissan Ltd in 2005 as a dealership for Nissan vehicles and Suzuki motorcycles. The 3-S dealership with sales, service and showroom facilities had a mandate to promote and manage the Nissan brand in the Entebbe area. By mid 2006, the Entebbe market was saturated and as part of the growth strategy it was decided to expand our product and geographical mandate. We sourced for brands that would bring value for money to our market, and entered into distributor agreements with manufacturers in China and Thailand.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for implementing sales plan and supervise sales staff.
- Initiative contact with collaborators in order to establish & communicate objectives & strategies of Motor center East Africa Limited as a partner of choice for motor vehicles
- Evaluate and motivate sales staff; and ensure information & knowledge to the team is internalized.
- Analyze, plan and control established formal control & supervision procedures (for the sales team); and establish formal procedures for sales management, analysis, and numeric reasoning
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional
- Communicate and consult with the sales team on decision making
- Negotiation and closing: clarified objectives, predefined strategy, communication abilities, etc.
- Coordinate with other areas and departments of the dealership
- Establishes sales objectives by forecasting and developing annual sales quotas for the region and territories; projecting expected sales volume and profit for existing and new products.
- Implement marketing strategies from analyzing trends and research results.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant should possess a Business degree or related degree from a recognized university
- At least three years’ experience in sales
- Excellent analytical, planning, negotiation and implementation skills
- Highly self-driven dynamic personality
- Good at PowerPoint, excel and can quickly adapt to available sales management software.
- Professional qualification in sales and marketing an added advantage
- Ability to Sell to Customer Needs
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send with their applications the following documents: cover letter (letter of motivation or application letter), curriculum vitae and academic certificate(s).
All applicants are strongly encouraged to apply by e-mail to: [email protected].
Deadline: 16th September 2014
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