Fan Milk Plc Vacancy for a Regional Sales Manager

Fan Milk Plc is a leading manufacturer and marketer of healthy, nutritious and safe frozen dairy and non-frozen dairy food products with distribution channels across the length and breadth of Nigeria. Fan Milk Nigeria is a well established and fast growing food processing industry offering wide range of products.

Fan Milk Plc is recruiting to fill the position below:


Job Title: Regional Sales Manager
Location: Lagos
Purpose

• Lead and develop a team of Sales Officers and Customer Development Representatives with the purpose of influencing KPI Performance positively in order to achieve the Region’s business objectives.

• Responsible for the achievement of  Volume/revenue targets and other KPIs
• Responsible for developing existing customers and recruiting new ones.
• Responsible for ensuring improvement in the numbers of active vendors in assigned Region
• Responsible for ensuring  improvement in vendors daily sales
• Ensure stock availability target is achieved.
• Ensure that customers keep products at right quality temperature
• Ensure sales assets  functionality - Bicycle,  push cart, head box, freezers
• Responsible for price compliance.
• Drive and achieve Bicycles, Pushcarts and other sales asset utilisation target.
• Take ownership of the systems, tools etc provided by Sales Capability Development Dept to develop your Sales Team and embed the way of working in them.
• Develop the channel, customer, and vendors expertise of his/her team
• Ensure increase in the number of Sales Point.
• Constructively analyse and report competition activities.
• Conduct Field Accompaniment with at least four SO / CDR per week. 
• Identify Talent in the team and retain them.
• Drive and monitor performance evaluation and coaching of SO & CDR.
• Identify the potentials of high performers and build on their strengths.
• Analyze and evaluate training needs/gaps of SO and CDR by conducting regular field accompaniment.
• Replace non-performers in the team.
• Manage credit limits and debt to be within set target.
• Responsible for the aggregate of the KPIs of his/her sales team.
• Report: Sends Weekly and Monthly Sales Report.
• Mapping: identify and determine the right number of customers, i.e. Exclusive Agents required per territory; Vendors territory gap/coverage per territory; Event coverage.
• Responsible for coaching and the professional development of his/her sales team
• Ensure  understanding and execution of the commercial rules& guidelines

• Ensure Region KPIs are achieved.
• Drive a winning culture; lead coaching and coordinate weekly/ monthly Regional meetings and ensure target understanding.
• POP Execution; conduct structured market visits and provide written feedback -reports.

• (IPE Factor: Knowledge)

• He/She must be driven to keep the process moving , an outgoing and convincing personality, with a sense of urgency, who can communicate at all levels and persuade key stakeholders in to the right course of action.
• Minimum of first Degree in Business Admin, Marketing or other related discipline (2.2) or HND lower credit. Possession of MBA will be an added advantage.
• The Ideal person must have financial and business acumen.
• Minimum of 7 years post graduate managerial experience in sales of FMCG with multi-cultural/multinational environment of which at least 2 must be at Regional Sales Manager’s level.
• IT skills (MS office - PowerPoint, Excel, Word).
• Planning, organising and coordinating skills.
• Result oriented.
• Leadership skills
• Presentation skills
• Personal Effectiveness/Credibility.
• Business Acumen.
• Problem Solving/Analysis.
• Results Driven.
• Strategic Thinking and Proactive