Sales Manager – Nairobi Kenya

Summit Recruitment and Search Africa is a leading Recruitment and Executive Search agency head quartered in Kenya providing outstanding talent to a wide range of companies and NGO’s in various business sectors across Africa.

Our client, a Software Company specialising in providing its own specialized IT Solutions and custom outsourced managed services is looking to recruit an experienced , the successful candidate will be responsible for developing new business relationships and generate new income in sales funnel. She/he will analyze and understand the target market’s business needs and articulate the value proposition of our ICT solutions to them.

Key Requirements:

  • Meet and exceed your set revenue and product target by developing relationships within targeted customers.
  • Engage with clients at a senior, decision-making level to understand their business needs, to leverage our Solutions to meet the customer’s business needs and to grow relationships with a longer-term focus.
  • Create a long term and short-term strategy to HOD in conveyance of how you can show the capability to meet and exceed set target
  • Create and manage sales pipeline and achieve pipeline conversion to sales targets.
  • Ability to review self-sales closure ratio and continuously push to reduce it
  • Developing and managing targeted marketing activities with our Sales PR department.
  • Attend all training on existing or new services offered by the organization
  • Know and adhere to all the setout sales processes and use the systems relevant to the internal processes (Odoo)
  • Gather market intelligence and share with the team on a daily/weekly basis
  • Ensure smooth implementation of strategic partnership & distribution of partner products
  • Work with commercial Manager to ensure product diversification initiatives and launch new products in liaison with other departments to meet market demand.
  • Ensure high level company visibility in the market based on territory demarcation.
  • Work hand in hand with team in analyzing potential areas of growth and where we can groom
  • Any other duties and responsibilities as the company sees fit.

Qualifications:

  • Must have a Bachelor’s degree in a Sales and/or Marketing related field.
  • Must be experienced or have a qualification in ICT
  • Six years’ relevant working experience, Three of which should be in a senior position which should preferably be in an IT environment
  • Good marketing, selling and public relations skills
  • Proven Solution Selling or Consultative sales skills with high levels of documentation
  • Proven over achievement of sales targets
  • Excellent presentation skills
  • Fast learner with regard to new systems and solutions
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Build relationships internally and externally
  • Work independently, using initiative
  • Work well within a team
  • Self-motivated, hardworking, sociable, and driven by professional success.

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Salary: Monthly gross salary of Ksh. 80,000 – 130,000 depending on skill and experience
Location: Nairobi Kenya
Career Level: Mid-Level
Job Type: Full Time
Deadline for applications: 12/06/2023