Hi,
We are pleased to invite you for the Senior Executive position to support our Sales team.
Key Responsibility Areas
1. New Business Additions
- Devise plans to achieve monthly & yearly individual sales targets.
- Develop, Map & Identify prospect base through cold calling in the assigned area.
- Schedule appointments & meet with the identified potential clients generated from databases & those passed on by Telemarketing or any other department.
- Analyze the prospect's potential to identify & match the customers needs with the Blue Dart products & submit quotations in the prescribed format.
- Follow up with potential clients on a regular basis & close deals with the support of supervisors if required.
- Negotiate rates & service offers with customers in consultation with immediate superior/Branch head on a case to case basis.
- Fill & forward the CMF form (Client Master form), signed by customer & BM to the accounts department for generating codes & for the RH's approval.
- Take necessary approval for special rates & service offers from the Regional Head / VP through the Branch Manager.
2. Retentions:
- Collects data on our customers growth objectives and plans and identify growth opportunities.
- Analyze & understand the business cycle & sales projection for the month/year of existing customers in the assigned base.
- Meet existing customers regularly to maintain & develop new contacts within the company.
- Generate sales by identifying additional business opportunities with existing customers & cross selling of products.
- Monitor business generated from existing clients & work out solutions to revive business with clients showing a decline.
- Provide support to existing customers to close service issues with the assistance of CS / Operation/Accounts/EDP team.
- Attend monthly review meetings with Key Customers along with CS-Key accounts Executive.
- Inform customers through emails, personal visits & communication, brouchers about new products, technology updates, internal policy changes viz Rate Hike/FS Increase .
3. Collections:
- Prioritize debtors & develop plans to reduce outstanding.
- Recover both current /old outstanding from clients by regular follow-up.
- Deliver bills to certain key customers so as to reduce the payment cycle & to resolve billing disputes if any.
- Collect supporting advice/debits notes from the customers in case of any deductions in the bills.
- Assign responsibility of delivering bills & collecting cheques to operation & collection staff.
- Check, Maintain and adhere to the sales administration process
4. Check, maintain & adhere to the sales administration process.
- Monitor Daily Sales Summary report on a regular basis to appraise on branch budgets, projections & individual additions.
- Maintain & update Daily Sales Report and prospect register on a daily basis as per the ISO norms.
- Update prospects details in Saffire software package on a daily basis.
- Analyze customer variance report on regular basis to monitor the performance of the existing clients.
- Maintain Blue Dart image by proper grooming & carry sales kit with prescribed communication material.
- Attend meetings with Branch Manager on regular basis to review individual budgets, targets & for issues requiring BM support.
- Generate MIS reports on individual collections, additions & projections as per the Branch Manager's requirement.
- Communicate & interact with Accounts/Operations/CS/EDP department for any additional supports to be provided to customers on billing issues Delivery/P-ups /Customer Complaints etc.
- Read & action all internal & external emails
5. Competition Knowledge
- Collects information on all competitors organisational structure, products, USPs, pricing, promotional schemes and other activities and report these on a regular basis to branch head
Knowledge:
- Should be able to use MS Excel to prepare & update MIS reports, to able to use MS-word to prepare quotations & MS-PowerPoint for client servicing and selling.
Skills:
- Should possess good verbal communication skills & presentation skills to put across ideas & thoughts to customers effectively, explain the products & provide support.
- Should possess good written communication skills to action emails & resolve customer & interdepartmental issues.
- Should possess basic analytical skills to understand business & market trends & to read & monitor MIS reports.
- Should possess effective negotiation & persuasive skills to convert a prospect into sales at the desired rates.
- Ability to plan ways to meet set targets & schedule the daily activities.
- Should be able to build rapport easily to increase contacts & build relationships.
- Should have good time management skills to allocate time appropriately to achieve addition, retention & collection objectives.
We look forward to reviewing your application!
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
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