REF: LPL/SE/28/02/2023
Reporting to the Head sales and marketing, the successful candidate will;
1. Market and sell all company products and ensure to achieve the sales targets accordingly
2. Participate in developing business plans, sales and marketing strategies to retain existing customers, attract new customers and achieve the company’s sales targets and profits
3. Participate in conducting frequent market surveys to understand customer’s needs, competitors’ analysis, price analysis, develop new products, identify sales opportunities and attain a bigger market share.
4. Participate in all sales and marketing promotional activities like; exhibitions, trade fairs, trade shows, advertisements and media campaigns geared towards increasing the market share.
5. Maintain rapport with key accounts by making field visits, explore specific needs and anticipate new opportunities.
6. Ensure full visibility, distribution and accessibility of all company products in all shops accordingly.
7. Coordinate sales orders with all customers and promptly advise on delivery.
8. Participate in the debt collection exercise, follow up on customer balances as per credit days and advise on invoices due for clearance.
9. Provide daily and monthly market intelligence reports and sales performance reports in line with the applicable reporting systems accordingly.
10. Participate in all internal and external audit exercises as required accordingly.
11. Any other duties assigned by the supervisor
Education qualifications & experience
1. Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Business Administration, Marketing, Economics or any other related field. A Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration or sales is an added advantage Any other Professional Qualifications.
2. At least 2 years’ relevant experience in a Manufacturing/FMCG company or a similar busy set up.
Skills and professional competences required
1. Ability to work independently, should have excellent sales and marketing skills, effective communication skills, excellent customer care skills, sound decision making skills and ability to work in the field.
2. Integrity, flexible, good interpersonal and problem solving skills. Should have a positive attitude, be results focused, creative, innovative, can work for long hours under pressure with minimum supervision.
All suitably qualified and interested candidates with the relevant qualifications and experience should send their application letters, curriculum vitae and copies of academic documents by email to: recruitment@luukaplastics.com by quoting the job reference No. as the email subject. Kindly merge all your documents and send them in one attachment in word or PDF format not exceeding 2MBs. Hand delivered applications can be dropped to the Human Resource Office in Kawempe. The Closing date of receiving applications is two weeks from the date of advertisement i.e. from 11th March to 24th March 2023.
Only successful candidates will be contacted within one week after the closing date