Area Sales Manager, Johannesburg

Job Description

■Accountable for achieving, measuring and monitoring the sales related BS-targets and KPIs within area of responsibility.■Responsible for operative sales management within area of responsibility (team, country or cluster of countries).■•Responsible for sales pipeline management in the respective area of responsibility. Addresses pipeline gaps and initiates countermeasures.■Steers, coaches, trains and motivates frontline sales staff in their daily work, helps sellers identify and address performance gaps.■Accompanies sales executives in customer visits (if required/demanded).■Monitors and adjusts sales focus lists of field sales (sales strategy for territory of field sales).■Sets yearly sales targets and defines sales plans and KPIs with Field / Inside sales executives according to agreed SLAs** and TR Guidelines.■Responsible for sales strategy and strategic sales management within area.■Responsible for setting individual sales targets within sales team and for steering the team towards targets (cascaded down from regional to area / team-level to individual level).■Identifies bottom up sales opportunities and implements into area sales planning.■For cross-BS collaboration: Responsible for steering Field / Inside Sales employees from different BSs; responsible for target setting with regard to cross-BS collaborations in his area of responsibility (i.e. for the area for which her / his sales organization has taken-over disciplinary and technical management from other BS).■Accountable for implementing governance compliant (global) processes, policies, tools, concepts and projects in the respective area.■Responsible for developing sales management routines according to TR guidelines.■Responsible for the operative alignment with the Operations Managers in his / her area in terms of sales target setting and sales target adjustments in certain intervals (e.g. quarterly) if required by business needs (from own and other BS in case of X-BS collaboration).■Reduces / optimizes internal sales cost in area of responsibility (e.g. personnel cost, travel cost, other expenses of area team; cost-output ratio).■Supports in the cash collection of unpaid / overdue invoices for the customers for which his/her team is responsible.■Aligns with Regional Sales Manager on how to optimally structure field sales, inside sales and sales support in the area of responsibility (i.e. team / country / cluster) in order to leverage synergies.■Supports in organizing and tracking of sales campaigns with relevant stakeholders.■[Depending on span of control: operative sales task possible].■Fosters cross-BS / cross area collaboration, communication and best practice sharing to support cross-BS customer development.■Drives Corporate and BS KAM (Key Account Management) and -Tender activities in the area and commits to BS contribution for globally defined sales and qualitative targets.

* “Area" here: area of responsibility - may consist of several countries / geographies acc. to TR nomenclature (e.g. Area Sales Manager “BF X / BS X / cluster XYZ”).
** "SLAs" here means bidirectional agreements between Sales and Business on collaboration and delivery, e.g. on capacity, volumes, prices.

Experience & Further Qualifications

■Languages: Fluent in English (B2 Upper intermediate), further language welcome but not required.■User knowledge in MS Office, Salesforce.com, SAP CRM■Expert in negotiation and consultative selling.■Expert in sales planning, pipeline management and opportunity qualification.■Expert in analysing information, problem-solving and decision taking.■Awareness in interpreting profit & loss reports.■Professional: 3-5 years of professional experience in related area.■Leadership: At least 2 years of leadership experience as Manager for a medium-sized team of employees or multiple small Teams.■Intercultural: At least 2 years of experience working in/ with intercultural Teams.

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What else you should know

Job ID14052Type of contractPermanentType of employmentFull TimeWork modelOn-siteCompanyTUV Rheinland Quality Services (Pty) Ltd.

Application deadline: as long as the job is listed on our career page, we are looking for suitable candidates (all genders welcome). We are looking forward to receiving your application.