Sales Supervisor,Career opportunity in Uganda, at New Vision Printing and Publishing Company Ltd - 2015

Job Summary:

The Sales Supervisor – The Kampala Sun will mainly oversee, coordinate and maintain a strong sales relationship with the distribution channel members with a focus on The Kampala Sun newspaper in order to generate the agreed display, sales growth and Circulation revenue targets.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

·Generate sales plans, projections and strategies for The Kampala Sun in order to achieve the target sales and wastage levels

·Identify, prioritize and set performance targets for all channel opportunities that maximize copy sales of The Kampala Sun at budgeted returns of vendor numbers, display levels and subscription innovations.

·Responsible for daily channel interactions with at a minimum of 95% of points of sale (vendor, stand, shop and retail stores) through daily sales visits/calls to people manning these points to achieve eye level display, reader and vendor feedback, retailer relationships and motivations and relocation of stocks from low demand points to high demand points through the product shelf life of The Kampala Sun.

·Actively engage distributors on daily basis to ensure they actively do field supervision and generate daily sales performance reports accurate enough to inform the next editions’ order.

·Oversee distributor performance and loyalty by documenting their performance successes and failures in relation to set targets in order to generate evidenced performance evaluation reports on each of the Distributors for The Kampala Sun.

·Compile and submit daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly market and intelligence feedback reports for The Kampala Sun in order to provide factors for market and sales growth action points.

·Compile and continuously update contact data bank in order to effectively manage network relationship and strengthen their loyalty to The Kampala Sun

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

·The ideal candidate for the Sales Supervisor Job Opportunity should hold an honors degree graduate of Marketing, Business Administration, Statistics or any other relevant discipline.

·Excellent sales and negotiation skills

·Initiative and enthusiasm

·Possess excellent communication and people skills

·Good planning and organizational skills

·The ability to work calmly under pressure

·Possess a valid and clean riding permit

·Willing to work long hours without supervision including on public holidays and weekends

Mode of application:

All those reeling to work in Uganda’s leading media house, The New Vision, should send applications to: Chief Human Resources Officer,

The New Vision Printing and Publishing Company Ltd.

P.O. Box 9815,

Kampala, Uganda or deliver to their front desk at the main reception.

Deadline: 21st November 2014