Job Title: Sales Manager-Structural Division
Organisation: Steel and Tube Industries Ltd (STIL)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About the Company:
Steel and Tube Industries Ltd is one of the largest steel manufacturers and suppliers of quality steel products in East Africa. Our Products include: Roof Products, Hollow Sections & Open Profiles, Smart Tanks, STIL Bars, Wire Products, etc.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Maintain and develop a computerized customer and prospect database.
- Plan and carry out direct marketing activities
- Respond to and follow up sales enquiries by mail, telephone, and personal visits.
- Maintain and develop existing and new customers through planned individual account support, and liaison Customer Relations Manager
- Monitor and report on activities and provide relevant management information on a weekly basis.
- Carry out market research, competitor and customer surveys.
- Plan and prioritise personal sales activities and customer/prospect contact towards achieving agreed business aims
- Maintain and develop existing and new customers through appropriate propositions and ethical sales methods to optimise quality of service, business growth, and customer and satisfaction.
- Negotiate contracts with vendors and distributors to increase sales volumes
- Compile lists describing product or service offerings.
- Coordinate and participate in promotional activities and trade shows, working with developers, advertisers, and production managers, to market products and services.
- Consult with customers to gain advice regarding the types of products or services expected to be in demand.
- Make periodic sales reports and submit them to the Business Development Manager.
- To understand, Implement and maintain all ISO systems in the company.
- Perform any other duties as they may be assigned
Authority:
- Reports to the General Manager-Structural Division
- Interfaces: (titles of people you deal with, e.g., from other departments, sections, customers)
- Logistics Manager,
- Dispatch coordinator,
- Marketing Manager.
Safety, Environmental & Health responsibilities and Ethics:
- Ensure cleanliness in and around the workplace.
- Enforce PPE usage by employees in the plant at all times.
- Guidance and on-the job training of workers especially new ones in good environmental maintenance and safer working procedures in order to reduce occupational accidents.
- Assist management to identify resources required to improve EHS in the company.
- Ensure good housekeeping in the plant i.e., immediate cleaning of coolants and oil spillages, emptying of waste bins, shift of scrap from respective workplace.
- Ensure proper use of waste bins and their availability at the designated respective locations in the plant
- Assist in taking corrective actions for any EHS deficiencies identified during audits or day to day observations
- Help casualties get immediate medical attention and also work closely with HR and systems coordinator during accidents/incident investigations
- Facilitate security of company staff and property.
- Promote health and safety at the workplace.
- Encourage teamwork for the purpose of a smooth and prosperous management
- Help create a culture and atmosphere of hard work and high personal integrity.
- Safeguard the company’s systems and Terms and Conditions of employment.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Qualifications: Degree in marketing/accounting/business administration
- Experience: 5 years plus
How to Apply:
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their applications accompanied with a detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV), photocopies of academic documents and certificates as one PDF folder via Email to: [email protected]
Deadline: 10th June 2025.
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