Job Title: Regional Sales Executives (Monitor Publications Uganda Jobs)
Organisation: Monitor Publications Limited (MPL)
Duty Station: Uganda
Reports to: Regional Sales Representatives
About MPL:
Monitor Publications Uganda Jobs: This is Uganda’s most influential media house, operating The Daily Monitor and Sunday Monitor newspapers, 93.3KFM, 90.4 Dembe FM, Nation Couriers and the Monitor Business Directory.
Job Summary: The Regional Sales Executive will ensure market penetration in the given territory in order to generate revenue and achieve the business targets of Monitor Publications Limited (MPL)
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assists the field sales representatives in terms of paper availability and shelf life as well as market penetration in the given territory
- Conducts vendor supervision, vendor placement / vendor positioning to maximize sales, vendor intimacy / relationships and conflict resolution among vendors and agents
- Drives Vendor top ups during peak hours of selling papers and determine stock levels at agent and vendor level
- Guides both the sales representatives and the distribution manager on the market feedback on the product and provide market intelligence majorly on the competition
- Advises the department on the issues that concern vendors and agents majorly sales related
- Enforces record keeping among agents and vendors
- Drives Product merchandising on all our stands and supermarkets in the allocated region/market
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicants for the Regional Sales Executive jobs must hold bachelor’s degrees in any business related course from a recognized institution.
- Diploma in Sales and Marketing
- A minimum of two years’ experience in a sales related field
- Computer literacy skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- High drive for results
- High integrity
- Good proposal writing skills
- Ability to build strong relationships
- Appreciation for numbers
- Strong customer focus
- Excellent planning and organizing skills
How to Apply:
Al suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their applications, detailed CVs and academic documents with daytime telephone number(s) addressed to:
The Head of Human Resource,
Monitor Publications Ltd.,
P.O. Box 12141, Kampala, Uganda.
E-mail to: resourcing@ug.nationmedia.com
Deadline: 30th March 2017
