Area Sales Manager

Job Category:

Sales

Job Family:

Account Manager

Job Description:

This position is to handle HORECA through channel sales. To tap the new customers and to generate business opportunities and generate revenue.

Job Location: Lucknow

What you’ll do:

• Lead a sales force, define field action plans, territory plan, setting and communicating field objectives and tracking results to achieve financial and strategic KRAS of a team.
• Generate the revenue by Identifying, Analyzing and Acquiring Corporate-Key Accounts across the area / territory.
• Engage in market mapping, corporate requirement Analysis, Cost - benefit analysis, Feasibility/profitability Analysis, Proposal design and Negotiating on Commercials toward Closure of Account.
• Generate revenue and profitability reports, estimates the expected growth Structure with sales trend analysis of the division.
• Engage in New Business Initiatives, Generate New Product Development Ideas, Introducing New range of products to client, Monitoring Competition and Market Trends to cater the customer needs and demands. 
• Assign and achieve monthly sales targets to a team of sales trainees and collaborate with the trainees to achieve the same.
• Generate revenue for the company by cross selling and up selling of products in collaboration with sales team. Conducting Promotional Campaign for Product Promotion.
• Engage in territory mapping, market mapping for product, Coaching a Sales Trainee for Sales Presentations and Product Knowledge.

  Channel Management

  Enable business growth by developing and managing a network of channel partners for HoReCa across assigned territories for deeper market penetration & reach.
  Monitor distribution networks to ensure ready availability of the product at all times.

  Guide and train partners to accomplish set revenue and business targets.
  Implementing business practices and deploying company strategies and programs to the core
• Key result areas:
• Analyze business potential, conceptualizing & executing strategies to drive sales & augmenting turnover.
• Monitoring competitor activities and devise effective counter measures.
• Identify and pursue new business opportunities.
• Establish and manage the HoReCa sales channel for the company.

What you need to succeed:

• Bachelor's degree in business or related field
• 8 Years of experience

  Technical Competencies:

  Incumbent shall have experience in HoReCa in Distribution Channel, Modern trade, Key Accounts

  Familiarity with Sales module in ERP (Oracle)

  Non-technical Competencies

• Self-Starter & Go Getter
• Enable to design vision & strategic planning.
• Should be able to manage with very small & lean team size.
• Leadership Qualities
• A strong understanding of both the HoReCa and modern trade channels
  Ability to creating strategic plans for achieving sales targets.
• Interpersonal skills (relationship building, teamwork, interpersonal insight, conflict resolution, customer orientation)
• Communication (verbal communication, persuasive impact, listening, written communication)
• Judgment and thinking (strategic thinking, original thinking, judgement and decision making, problem solving, awareness)
• Strong analytical, problem solving & organizational abilities.
• Personal characteristics (motivation/commitment, flexibility, assertiveness, development orientation, results orientation resilience, quality orientation)
• Ability to travel up to 40%