Sales Representative: Retail at Astral Foods Ltd

The ideal candidate will be responsible for:

• Establishing strong relationships with retail customers
• Professionally responding to all inbound sales enquiries
• Interaction with Liaison Manager for new business opportunities
• Sales administration duties
• Promoting and growing our brands
• Interacting and negotiating our products and prices with our existing and new clients
• Ensuring that our full range of products are displayed on shelf and that we
• work towards a healthy on -shelf display of our products 
• Maintaining a specified customer base and ensuring excellent after sales service
• Attending trade shows and exhibitions as required and must have the ability
• to plan and manage territory through ethical sales methods
• An external merchandising agency for your existing customer base
• Gathering Market Intelligence to improve our competitive advantage
• Engaging our merchandising partners (Vector,Daymon and CPG)
• Total On Shelf Availability control
• Ordering of Stock to ensure correct product mix at store level
• Shelf Management (Layouts , flashers etc)
• Quality Control on shelf
• Maintaining good customer service working relationship
• Ensuring maximum service levels into stores and on shelf
• Servicing our internal and external customers effectively
• Communicating out of stocks daily with Sales department
• Recording of fridge breakdowns in stores
• Returns management according to the Company’s return policy
• Accountable to drive daily targets set out by the business, either to meet or exceed targets
• Ensure daily KPI’s are met

The successful candidate will met the following requirements:

• Grade 12 is essential
• A marketing-related tertiary qualification will be an added advantage
• Must be familiar with the Poultry Industry
• Sales experience in the FMCG sector a great advantage
• Must have a reliable vehicle with a valid code 8 driver’s license       
• Microsoft Office Suite (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook and MS PowerPoint)
• Must be able to do reporting in pivot tables
• The incumbent will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills;
• Excellent administration and problem-solving skills;
• Basic understanding of the 20 Keys concept is essential;
• Must be able to work independently, as well as in a team environment and cope well under pressure;
• It is essential that the successful candidate be self-motivated with the ability to meet strict deadlines.
• The incumbent will assist with various other duties and responsibilities within the sales department as required from time to time
• Must be bilingual (two South African languages) in order to converse with our diverse customer base