Our client, a strategic organisation that believes in exceptional quality and excellent customer delivery in the telecom industry with presence in over 50 countries is currently looking for smart, innovative and charismatic individuals to join its workforce as Retail Sales Supervisors in Gabon, Rwanda and Uganda.

The purpose of this role is to develop retail & distribution setup for the organisation

Job Responsibilities:

Channel targets

• Make regular visits to sub-distributors/IR. Advance planning of daily sales activities in order to make the optimum use of time management skills.
• Ensure that timely purchase orders are placed via sub-distributors to achieve the monthly targets.
• To closely work & monitor the performance of DE’s, ensuring that they are on track with respect to assigned region targets.
• Responsible for timely collection of payments and dues from the customers and follow the ethical practices to safeguard the company interest.

Develop sub-distributor & IR network

• Establishing, building and developing sub distributor / IR network in main & remote towns respectively.
• Building a sales force of DE’s to enhancement of sales volume, wider availability and distribution of product in the region. 
• To establish, develop and maintain relationship with them in such a manner that our product is prioritized and pushed to the end-user

Market Visibility

• To ensure the product presence with maximum visibility to the end users by using posters and other POS material in the most effective placement in order to maximize sales and market share.

Promos & KIOSK Activities

• To ensure the development & execution of localized promo in the region through the built network to generate sales for the achievement sales target of the region.
• To conduct weekly KIOSK activities in College/Universities, ensure that the product receives appropriate publicity, visibility & sales through these activities from time to time in the region.

Market Intelligence

• To be well informed about all the trends and activities in the industry. To have complete market data including competition strategies, offerings and promotion in contrast to our moves. Provide feedback to line manager.

Required Educational Qualification and Experience:

• Bachelors in Business Administration
• MBA in Sales & Marketing or relevant field  
• Retail Sales & Distribution experience in mobile handset/telecom industries  
• Proven track record of consistent sales achievements
• Hands-on experience of managing and handling distribution team

Required Skills:

• Effective knowledge for retail & distribution
• Can do approach within available resources
• Ability to run effective trade campaign/promotion & merchandizing
• Good spoken and written communication & presentation skills
• Should be willing and able to relocate within the country
• Good time management skills & to have the capacity to do multiple tasking
• The ability to lead by example and motivate a team
• Interested candidate must be nationals or residing in the country they intend to apply to

• The country of interest must be boldly written at top right corner of their CV