About this role
Sales Rep Slots: 3 Location: Kano, Abuja, and Jos Nigeria Employment: Full time
Company Overview: Tomato Jos is a private equity-backed, fast-growing social enterprise located in Kaduna, Nigeria, that believes in the power of local production for local consumption. Our company aims to supply 10% of the processed tomato market in Nigeria within the next 5 years. We source tomatoes from smallholder farmers within our network and make high-quality branded consumer products for Nigeria and West Africa. We currently operate a 500Ha commercial farm and run a successful smallholder program with over 500 farmers. In 2020, the company built a tomato processing facility and we will conduct our first production run in Q1/Q2 2021, with an aim to launch our first retail packaged product later this year. Tomato Jos has four key values: 1. We care about the company 2. We care about each other 3. We are problem solvers 4. We are humble
Mission and Long-Term Goal: To make Tomato Jos product a top paste for 50% of Nigerian families.
Short-Term Goal: To drive sales and get Tomato Jos products into every retail store in Kaduna by supporting key distributors.
Job Description
- Keeps management informed by submitting activity and results reports, such as daily call reports, weekly work plans, and monthly and annual territory analyses.
- Work onsite at prospect sites delivering sales presentations and collecting information about the client to assist in the development of marketing plans and sales strategies to increase your chances of getting new Distributors.
- Manage the inventory of existing Distributors.
- Services existing accounts, obtains orders, and establishes new accounts by planning and organizing a daily work schedule to call on existing or potential sales outlets and other trade factors.
- Focuses sales efforts by studying existing and potential volumes of dealers.
- Manage contact information for sales prospects and existing clients
- Schedule visits or meetings with clients within your sales territory
- Submits orders by referring to price lists and product literature
- Monitors competition by gathering current marketplace information on pricing, products, new products, delivery schedules, merchandising techniques, etc.
- Recommends product, service, and policy changes by evaluating results and competitive developments.
- Resolves customer complaints by investigating problems; developing solutions; preparing reports; making recommendations to management.
- Provides historical records by maintaining records on area and customer sales.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
- Maintain a regular calling or contact schedule with companies to identify more leads or resolve any problems that arise in existing customer’s outlet
Remuneration: Salary is commensurate to experience within the range of industry standards. A communication allowance, pension, and health insurance are included, and an annual performance-based bonus may be awarded at the discretion of the executive management team. Please note that adequate security is provided to the whole Tomato Jos team.