Permanent - Sales Representative - Pine Town - South Africa

Main Purpose of Job

• To develop and maintain profitable ongoing customer relationships to generate income for the business.
• To actively promote and sell the company products in order to achieve or exceed budgeted order intake, revenue and gross margin

Main Responsibilities

• Provide customer support and sales to the existing and potential customers
• Achieve Sales and margin targets as agreed to with management.
• Provide punctual and accurate reporting with regards to budgeting, forecasting, branch reports and visitation reports.
• Present new products and services to existing and potential customers.
• Ensure that customers are always well informed.
• Apply pricing structures that are in line with sales and margin objectives
• Investigate and present new avenues of revenue.
• Support financial management by assisting in recovering outstanding debtors that you are responsible for.
• Communicate with management with regards to competitive pricing and discounts, etc.

Required Qualifications / Experience

• Grade 12.
• Minimum 3 years experience in sales, rentals or in a similar environment.
• Must be willing to work overtime as and when required.

Key Competencies / Skills

• Customer service orientation
• Product and market knowledge
• Understanding rentals of cranes and construction gear
• Financial understanding of Sales Margins and Profitability
• Networking and negotiation skills
• Decision making
• Problem solving
• Ability to work under pressure
• Business acumen
• Action oriented and results drive
• Planning and Organising
• Working knowledge of accounting systems
• Working knowledge of Inventory concepts
• Emotional Intelligence
• Self management
• Advanced Computer skills
• Leadership
• Must be able to work in a team and independently
• Attention to detail
• People management