GV Alliance Job for Graduate Sales Officer, May 23rd 2013

Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners is a business advisory and market intelligence services firm. Our objectives are to assist organizations to achieve their growth aspirations by providing market intelligence, strategy formulation and implementation expertise and business operation improvement skills.
GVA Partners is recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Graduate Sales Officer
Location: Lagos
Responsibilities

• The successful candidate(s) will be responsible for providing information and insights regarding customers, markets, competitors, and campaign effectiveness, to measure performance and support business decisions. The ideal candidate will have experience planning and managing various research projects, and be able to work closely with senior management to interpret findings.
• Assist management in developing and reviewing the sales budget and rolling sales forecast including sales to budget variance analysis.
• Analyze line of business operations (product lines, stores, etc.) to determine profitability and to establish a baseline for action and operational changes.
• Collect, analyze, evaluate and report data in order to increase sales productivity.
• Collect sales records & trends and evaluate performance measured against sales quotas.
• Analyze sales and performance records, interpret results of overall sales, and recommend promotion or change of personnel in under-productive departments.

• 1 - 3 years of experience in sales in a similar position, preferably in an IT environment.
• Knowledge of relational database and the ability to create stored procedures.
• Ability to perform complex analysis such as regression, forecasting, cannibalization and probability modeling.
• First Class or Minimum of a second class upper degree from a reputable university.
• Must have a broad understanding of Information Technology.