Sales Executive

Job Description: Sales Executive 
 

A Sales Executive’s role entails delivering a broad range of company products and services to clients in order to increase the company profits.

 He/She works with Sales Manager to build up new business and meet the organizations sales targets. 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Identifying and establishing contact with potential customers proactively.
• Responding to sales inquiries from new and existing customers.
• Delivering presentations of the company products at conferences, customer sites and exhibitions.
• Meeting annual sales goals and targets.
• Maintaining the company’s contact database management with up-to-date contact, accurate and activity details.
• Delivering platform presentations, publications, posters at conferences.
• Producing monthly sales reports.
• Ensuring effective internal communication within the Sales team and other departments across the company.
• Assisting to identify the opportunities for upcoming products, and for development and enhancement of existing products.
• Motivating all sales staff to share relevant data about the market in facilitating the ease of retrieval, recording, and use of information.
• Negotiating the agreement terms and closing down sales.

Skills and Specifications

• Good communication, writing, presentation, negotiation and customer service skills.
• Excellent problem solving and organization skills.
• Self-motivated and flexible to work with minimal supervision.
• Tenacious work attitude.
• Team player.
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Highly innovative and proactive.
• Flexible to work schedules

Education and Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in sales and marketing related field.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Related experience in sales.

Applications should be sent to recruitment@fep-group.com not later than 10th June 2015 COB. 

Applicant are also requested to state their current and expected salary in their cv’s.

Sales Engineering Manager

Job Title: Africa Sales Engineering Manager
 

Industry: Manufacturing
 

Location: Nairobi (with frequent travel within Africa and Middle East)
 

Salary: Highly competitive based on experience
 

Our client is a UK based international trading company specializing in supply of Raw Materials and Machinery to meet the needs of manufacturing companies primarily in the Middle East. 

They are looking for a highly organized, self motivated and energetic individual with the ability to create opportunities for Engineering / Technical products.

Job Description

• Generate business leads for a variety of technical products / services.
• Arrange meetings with prospective customers- Institutions, Industries and Individuals.
• Liaise with the Head Office in London regularly to channel the enquiries to strategic suppliers.
• Ensure that the business leads are followed up on with responses from the Head Office.
• Define sales strategies for the target market and prospective customers.
• Ensure market share in the region is increased and maintained.
• Frequent customer sites to identify opportunities and promote technology based products and Engineering equipment.

The Successful Applicant

• A demonstrable track record of success in technical sales.
• Focused  with an understanding of Engineering, and/or production Equipment, and/or Project related Equipment.
• Prepared to travel extensively throughout Africa frequently, visiting remote sites and operations.
• A sharp strategic thinker with the ability to get the best out of internal and external resources.
• Confident and assertive communicator with highly developed influencing and networking skills. Self motivated with an ability to work under minimum supervision.
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Good communication skills, both spoken and written
• Multilingual is desired
• Degree in Engineering / Technology with additional qualifications in Export Marketing / Sales.

If you are up to the challenge, possess the necessary qualification and experience, please send your CV only quoting the job title on the email subject (Africa Sales Engineering Manager) to vacancies@corporatestaffing.co.ke  before Friday 10th June, 2015.

Kindly indicate current/last salary on your CV

N.B: We do not charge any fee for receiving your CV or for interviewing

Only candidates short-listed for interview will be contacted.

The Recruiting Manager
Corporate staffing Services
Nabui House, 3rd floor, Westlands. 

(Next to Unga House)

I.T Rep @Jumia

Vacancy: I.T Rep

Jumia is the largest online retail store in Africa with over 100,000 unique visitors a day, buying everything from Fashion to Phones. 

Founded in 2012 in Nigeria, Jumia's mission is to revolutionize the concept of shopping by providing customers with the best online shopping experience.

Jumia is part of Africa Internet Group, a leading global incubator of startups specialised in e-commerce. 

Africa Internet Group is Africa's leading internet firm, with already over 3,000 employees in over 20 African countries and huge successes such as Jumia.com, Kaymu.com, Hellofood.com, Lamudi.com, Carmudi.com and Jovago.com. 

It is led by top talented leaders offering a great mix of local and international talents and is backed by MTN, Millicom and Rocket Internet.
 

 

Africa is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, offering excellent opportunities in a vibrant and booming environment. Its economic growth has enabled innovative businesses to flourish and this is where Africa Internet Group steps in.

Job Description: 

The role of the I.T rep will include handling the following tasks:

• Coordinating the training of staff on how to use the company systems
• Coordinate training of staff on new releases/updates/features of the company systems
• Implement APIs to allow integration of external systems with ours
• Troubleshoot queries and escalate where appropriate for internal company systems
• Continually seeking opportunities to improve internal company systems for Jumia Kenya Venture
• Implement software projects as requested by the business
• Be IT rep for Jumia Kenya in regional IT calls/meetings

Desired Experience

• Several years relevant experience in software design, object-oriented design and implementation techniques; thorough understanding of design patterns and their application in software development
• Experience in implementing APIs
• Coordinating the training of staff on internal systems/new features
• Proven experience in designing web-based applications using ASP, ASP.NET, VB.NET
• Client side coding: Mastery of cascading Style Sheets (CSS), XHTL, DHTML, Java scripts (Ajax & Jquery), HTML templates
• Proven experience in design and implementation of web applications in open source technologies and specifically PHP/MYSQL /PostgreSQL
• System integration with MS office applications templates
• Proficient with Database; MYSQL, MSSQL, MS Access databases
• Proficiency in the use of web protocols including HTTP, HTTPS, WSFTP, SSL, SOCS and FTP

Qualifications and Skills

• Degree in Computer Science.
• Additional relevant certifications in I.T is an added advantage
• Excellent computer skills
• People skills to enable you handle problems
• Good communication skills
• Proactive, Entrepreneurial and proven ability to deliver exceptional results.

If you want to join the journey please send your resume to: joinus-kenya@jumia.com

Assistant Shop Manager

Position: Assistant Shop Manager

Our client is urgently recruiting for the above mentioned position. 

The ideal candidate will be responsible for offering administrative and managerial support to the shop manager in the daily operations of the shop in order to achieve maximum profitability.

Qualifications & Experience required:

• Degree in sales & Marketing / MBA an asset.
• At least 2-4 years experience in a retail environment & 2 years in supervisory position.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Assist the shop manager in plans, preparations, and devises of work schedules, according to budgets and workloads.
• Supervises daily operation of the shop; meets, greets and assists public in selecting books/ stationary and other merchandise; supervises staff also engaged in service to the public, selling, and assisting buyers.
• Assists the shop manager in supervision and coordination of the work assigned to staff; plans staff work schedules according to projected business levels.
• Ensuring standards for quality, customer service are met
• Controls shrinkage of stock by customers and employees
• Participates in promotion activities within the shop, mall or TBC group as appropriate
• Responding to customer complaints and comments
• touring the sales floor regularly, talking to colleagues and customers, and identifying or resolving urgent issues
• Initiating changes to improve the business, e.g. revising opening hours to ensure the store can compete effectively in the local market;
• Dealing with sales, as and when required.
• Find out the customer's needs
• Supervises and participates in the monthly inventory of merchandise and stock, extends and prices inventory for use in preparation of the monthly operating statement.
• Overseeing staff and providing management coverage when the shop manager is absent
• Till allocation to cashiers by assigning them after opening float is in order
• Assist shop manager while doing Cash up, banking and float management
• Preparing sales reports, GRNs, LPOs, Invoice

Duty station: Nairobi.

Anticipated start date: Immediately.

How to apply: Only applications with similar experience shall be contacted. 

Please specify, job title & current/previous salary (gross pay) on subject line. 

Kindly email cover letter & updated resume to: recruitment@covenantexecutives.co.ke

Use this format please on subject line: Assistant Shop Manager, current Gross Pay (XXXXXX insert salary)

NOTE: Consider unsuccessful if not contacted within 7 days.