Sales Manager (Distributor Management Background - FMCG Foods)

Job description / Role

Main Roles and Responsibilities (including, but not limited to):
- Role will be building sales, deliver brand promotions, provide customer service and has been developing client relationships
- Strives to build long-term client relationships that will lead to increased sales and profitability
- Identifying new target markets, building and maintaining relationships with prospective and current clients
- Responsible for developing, conceptualizing and strategizing long-term strategy for operations and ensuring consistent growth in sales revenues
- Coordinate the development of sales promotion and lead generation activities, plus other relevant marketing initiatives
- Should be able to consistently achieve targets and ensure cost-effective operations with a focus on maximized ROI
- Suggest best-in-class business practices, new methods and initiatives that will help increase the sales teams productivity
- Asses and review, on an ongoing basis, results of all sales activities and ensure appropriate action is taken to resolve unsatisfactory conditions
- Role will require to manager P&L (Profit and Loss)
- Maintain knowledge and awareness of competitors and competitor pricing
- Evaluate, develop and execute targeted initiatives to help grow sales and overall support
- Managing a business with turnover equivalent to 120 MIL AED
- Managing distributors as the role is more of a country manager position
- Salary: 35-40k/month

Requirements

- Must have a bachelors degree or equivalent qualification
- Must be currently managing/dealing with distributors
- Must have management experience as the role will manage a sales team
- Minimum of 12-15 years of relevant experience
- Previous Key Account Management in UAE is a MUST!
- Have experience in managing sales budgets
- Must have UAE experience
- Arabic will be a plus but not essential

About the Company

Kingston Stanley is the leading specialist marketing recruitment agency in the Middle East, working exclusively with clients and candidates across the full spectrum of the marketing sector since early 2011. We will help you find, screen and select the ideal candidate for your marketing jobs, and we have the largest, most current and qualified network of suitable candidates, ready to start immediately. Whether you have a role that urgently needs to be filled, or a killer portfolio, you’ll find what you’re looking for here. Strong ethics, honest hard work, integrity and marketing recruitment are the four pillars of our business and brand.