Sales Officer

Purpose of the Role

The individual in the role is responsible for achieving sales targets for the assigned territory across the following:

1) Lead & manage ready stock units for retail & wholesale distribution across urban territories through appointed RDS.

2) Lead & manage super-stockiest, sub DB and Sales Team.

Key Responsibilities S&D Operations

Responsible for:

• Achieving revenue targets for the territory
• Ensuring periodic primary business from the channel partners
• Ensuring timely offload of monthly targets, schemes, special agendas and incentives to the Sales Team.
• Daily monitoring of sales and retail productivity and weekly sales review
• Continuous on the job training of Sales Team.
• Verifying the updating/ operation of Beats through Field Assist.
• Daily market visits of at least one route per day.
• Monitoring secondary sales and closing stock of all distributors to ensure secondary sales are in line with primary.
• Rollout of sales automation process ensuring adherence to automation adoption
• Driving leading indicators like productivity percentage, lines sold, throughput etc.
• PJP (Permanent Journey Plan) Sales Team.
• Channel wise business plan (split between retail, wholesale and rural)
• Sales & Business
• Responsible for ensuring success of sales development
• Development projects undertaken by the company- adding new units, new sub-stockiest, wholesalers
• Increase distribution of all brands (Numeric Distribution- adding no. of new outlets or coverage & Weighted Distribution- share of a category in a particular market)
• Execution of launch of new products
• Ensure to increase lines sold, effective coverage, productivity, VPO (value per outlet)
• Ensure to increase billing efficiency of distributors product- wise
• Appointment of new / replacement distributor
• In-Store Communication
• Execution of marketing and promotional activities.
• Track and monitor competitor's products & activities
• Merchandising - ensure visibility of stock in stores
• Market hygiene maintenance, including distributor hygiene
• Plan and implement promotional schemes in coordination with Rds.
• Distributor & Route
• Conduct routine visits to distributors
• Maintain & develop relationships with existing distributors
• Supervise collection, pending payments & debtors status to ensure nil outstanding
• Ensure active participation and involvement of the channel partners to push sales.
• Develop and maintain efficient & optimum distribution network to ensure comprehensive availability of product and service across the territory.
• Evaluate & monitor distributor performance at regular intervals to address performance gaps effectively.
• Undertake stock management at the distributor level.
• Super and sub stockiest appointments/shortlisting for market expansion.
• Ensure timely claim submissions of the distributors.