Title: Sales Manager
Job Summary/Main Purpose
To lead, influence and encourage sales team to achieve agreed sales goal and market share through attract, develop, motivate and retain a workforce, while maintaining the company’s image according to the company policies and professional ethics.
Working to manage operations, develop business and increase profitability for a company in a specific region within the country.
Main Responsibilities:
- Managing all operations within an assigned region of the country. This involves taking responsibility for profit, revenue, cash and quality targets.
- Ensure day-to-day operations maintain a continued alignment with overall company policy, strategy and direction.
- Seeks out and targets new customers and new sales opportunities, initiates action plan to approach and secure new business for Julphar within assigned region of the country.
- Analyse sales statistics to determine business growth potential.
- Ensures that a sales force business plan exists and is put into effect, actively monitors key performance indicators and ensures field force effectiveness.
- Analyse sales reports and develops plan of action.
- Accurately forecasts annual, quarterly and monthly sales streams.
- Ensure sales tactics within the assigned region of the country are aligned with the core brand strategy provided by marketing department.
- Market intelligence; gathering and analysing the information relevant to a company’s markets, for the purpose of accurate and confident decision-making in determining market opportunity, market penetration strategy, and market development metrics.
- Provides monthly results assessments of sales staff’s productivity.
- Develop and manage effective recruitment and staffing strategy.
- Supervising, motivating and monitoring assigned team performance.
- Work closely with KOL’s customers building strategic partnership for mutual benefit.
- Lead process for field force sizing, alignments, deployment, targeting, and call planning exercises
- Regularly attending company meetings as per direct manager instruction.
- Submitting reports to direct manager as per country reporting system.
Core competencies (Skills, Knowledge and Attitude)
- Bachelor's degree in pharmacy or related science.
- Preferred language as per country business needs.
- Strategic thinker with a strong operational, structured and thorough working style
- Entrepreneurial, collaborative, and creative
- Strong project management skills with demonstrated ability to lead multiple projects and priorities
- Results-oriented, customer focused, with a serious commitment to excellence
- Marketing intelligence.
- Able to deliver the highest standards of customer service.
- Excellent interpersonal skills at all levels, including people-management, leadership and both written and verbal communication skills.
- Effective Forecasting.
- Sales force management.
- Able to motivate, influence and encourage team members.
- Recruitment and interviewing skills.
- Manage time effectively and efficiently.
- Persistence, dedicated and self – motivated.
- Positive mind-set.