SALES SUPERVISOR

Sales Supervisor Job Responsibilities

. Supervise the activities of the sales team including marketing activities like product activations.

. Assist the line manager to recruit, training, enumerating, and retaining a competent sales team.

. Provide reports to top management like sales reports, lead generation reports, customer complaints reports, and new customers on-boarded reports.

. Prepare sales presentations and other sales tools.

. Assist the line managers to ensure adequate client communication, maintain contacts with clients and provide feedback.

. Initiate sales activities, strategies, and sales plans required to build brand visibility.

. Serve as a point of reference to employees in terms of showing great work ethic, habits, personal character, and professional character.

. Develop and maintain accurate records of prospects, leads, pricing, sales activities, and active clients.

. Controlling company marketing expenses to ensure the marketing expenditure is kept within budget.

. Attend trade shows and other marketing events and represent the organization.

. Evaluate the performance of the sales team and seek ways to improve the team's performance.

. Identify the trends in the market, both current, and future that are likely to affect the performance of the organization.

. Ensure the items are displayed correctly in the malls, supermarkets, and other sales points.

Sales Supervisor Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

. Bachelor's degree in a business-related course with emphasis on marketing.

. Proven work experience in marketing and achieving set targets.

. Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal communication.

. Ability to lead and motivate a sales team, and put in place measures to retain a great team.

. Excellent selling skills, ability to close deals, and deal with post-purchase anxiety.

. Excellent selling skills, people-oriented, and ability to motivate a team.

. Ability to identify potential areas of growth and identify new business partnership opportunities.

. Strong organization skills and multi-tasking skills.

. The ability to work under pressure.

. Availability to work within opening hours (e.g. evenings, holidays, weekends).