Sales and Marketing Manager

Our client is a leading regional company with headquarters in Uganda specializing in Seeds.
Our client is seeking to recruit a Sales and Marketing Manager in it’s management team.
Job Title: Sales and Marketing Manager
Reports to: General manager.
Department: Operations
Location: Kampala
Job Purpose: Maintaining and increasing sales of your company’s products.

Key responsibilities:
• Maintaining and increasing sales of your company’s products
• Reaching the targets and goals set for your area
• Establishing, maintaining and expanding your customer base
• Servicing the needs of your existing customers
• Increasing business opportunities through various routes to market
• Setting sales targets for individual reps and your team as a whole
• Allocating areas to sales representatives
• Developing sales strategies and setting targets
• Monitoring your team’s performance and motivating them to reach targets
• Compiling and analyzing sales figures
• Possibly dealing with some major customer accounts yourself
• Collecting customer feedback and market research
• Reporting to senior managers
• Keeping up to date with products and competitors
• To ensure maximum efficiency and profitability of the Branch whilst giving a high level of sales
• To maximize Branch profitability through the sales of our products (Seeds).
• Brand launching, Inventory Management & Promotional activity.
• Analyzing market trends, sales performance through channels
• To create and project and image both within the Branch and outside as a top class professional company.
• To device strategies for effective and real time market intelligence in order to stay ahead of competition.
• To submit the day end, weekend & month end reports to the management in timely manner which should reflect the current sales/service situation vis-Ã -vis sales plan, shortfall if any, corrective action plan to make up the short fall, future projection, major achievements, lost opportunities etc.
• To help and co-operate with the divisional heads in order to achieve the overall organizational objective.
• Personnel: Should work in conjunction with respective divisional heads like Product Head and Finance & Accounts dept.
• Operational: Authorized to operate the Branch to meet sales & service requirements and expectations within the budgeted norms.