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Sales Officer

3-8 years

Kolkata

1 vacancy

Sales Officer

The Hershey Company

posted 5d ago

Job Role Insights

Flexible timing

Job Description


Major duties key responsibilities:
Market Execution
  • Understands and can drive secondary sales
  • Handle beat efficiently.
  • Able to coach TSIs
  • Design handle beats to achieve better throughput per beat / per TSI.
  • Ensure effective merchandising
  • Drive range selling
Business development
  • Understands DPL (Dealers per lakh)
  • Understands sales WOW sales practices to maintain market discipline achieve constant sales growth in territory
  • Able to map restructure town/territory accordingly to business requirements.
  • Taps local events opportunities for incremental business.
  • Engage with KEY retailers
Channel Partner Management
  • Ensures proper communication of norms monthly sales objectives to the channel partner
  • Ensures channel partner adequacy evaluate him as per norms and adherence to WOW.
  • Leverage existing infrastructure of channel partner for increasing bill cuts decreasing man day loss
  • Identifies new channel partners
  • Able to add new infrastructure (delivery units, DSM etc.) by convincing DB to invest.
  • Influence engage channel partner to align him to business objectives.
  • Manage contingencies like TSI attrition, transport availability etc.
Selling Negotiation
  • Interact with channel partners retailers to inform about available SKUs, schemes price points
  • Negotiates modulates schemes etc. to suit the type of stake holder (A win-win situation)
  • Able to effectively handle grievance, issues, and objections of channel partners retailers on his own.
Planning and Execution
  • Identify growth drivers for business.
  • Understands the given target, can break it down in weekly/daily numbers beatwise.
  • Knowledge of brands, sales distribution, local activities schemes.
  • Plan for achievement according to schemes planned, sales initiatives etc.
  • Able to break targets TSI wise.
  • Able to take measures initiatives to accommodate misses, changes in market environment to achieve target.
Communication skills
  • Comprehends the information and can respond back effectively.
  • Able to collect inputs by interaction, brainstorming, discussions meetings, paraphrase them and respond back
  • Able to handle objections negotiations and drive new ideas measures to implementation. Able to train his subordinates effectively.
Achievement Orientation
  • Consistency in target achievement. High on energy level enthusiasm towards profession company
  • Diligent tracking of teams targets reporting to superior. Focused on task and leverages sales strategies effectively to achieve target.
  • Able to deal with misses in targets on his own confidently. Suggests measures implements them to achieve challenging targets
Technical/Soft skills
  • Has Knowledge of DMS, MS-office formats. Able to update reports as per WOW
  • Understands uses DMS data for better market implementation to find sources of growth for business
  • Uses Excel to analyze secondary primary data
  • They should be comfortable with English and local language.
  • Should have strong fundamentals in FMCG operations
  • Should have good oral and written communication.
  • Efficient in writing mails. Should be comfortable working in Excel.
  • Pleasant personality and willing to meet people
  • Should be a go getter and have problem solving attitude
  • Exposure to HHT (online order booking in mobile software).
Experience:
3+ years of sales experience in General trade.
Candidates must have front line sales experience for at least 2yrs.
Experience in Chocolates or food industry only.
Education:
Full time Graduate from any college/university

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

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What people at The Hershey Company are saying

4.0
 Rating based on 46 Sales Officer reviews

Likes

Hershey's is best company company best product and very beautiful chocolates and tasty

  • Job security - Good
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Dislikes

Hershey's company my favourite is product and very beautiful fantastic chocolate

  • Skill development - Poor
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Sales Officer salary at The Hershey Company

reported by 156 employees with 1-15 years exp.
₹3 L/yr - ₹11 L/yr
121% more than the average Sales Officer Salary in India
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What The Hershey Company employees are saying about work life

based on 284 employees
53%
79%
50%
96%
Flexible timing
Monday to Saturday
Within city
Day Shift
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The Hershey Company Benefits

Health Insurance
Job Training
Free Transport
Soft Skill Training
Work From Home
Team Outings +6 more
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