SUMMARY:
To promote the sale of our range of Extensive Ruminant products, and to provide technical and produc
POSITION INFO:
To promote the sale of our range of Extensive Ruminant products, and to provide technical and product support as required by customers and prospects.
End goal is to achieve annual budgets / objectives for the region (Beaufort West / Greater Karoo) and to increase sales volume and margins.
Qualifications and Requirements:
• B Agric / B.Sc. Agric
• 3 yr. Agricultural diploma
Legal requirements:
• Possession of a valid code 08/EB driver’s license
• Able to register at Professional Nutritionist
Experience:
• 3 Years’ experience in similar role.
• Preferably have milling background experience
• Experience in selling and marketing
he selling and supporting of Extensive Ruminant range external to current clients and prospect clients.
• To achieve monthly & yearly sales budget per customer and 5 level classification
• The building and maintaining of customer relationships.
• To maintain a regular visit schedule with customers and potential customers in order to keep current monthly sales and grow sales with prospects.
• Monitor opposition trends on pricing. on a monthly basis
To add value to the customers. Identify needs and goals from Top 20 clients in each area on a quarterly basis
• To understand and keep abreast of the Extensive ruminant industry news and developments
Technical
• To understand the principles of Extensive ruminant nutrition
• To understand the fundamentals of forage production which will include dryland and irrigated pastures as well as other forage crops
• To maintain effective communication with customers and in-house personnel, writing of quarterly articles
• Monitor the performance of products, to gather production figures from beef / sheep feedlots & supplemented farms on a monthly basis
• To play an active role in study groups & Trade shows.
Administration
• To handle the necessary administration and liaison with relevant customers/potential customers and in house personnel.
• Accurate and on time reports to direct Superior and Product Manager – week reports, monthly sales reports
• Accurate and professional customer reports, in writing to clients after visits
• Compiling of and keeping Extensive Ruminant sector plan up to date – January & August of each year.
• Keeping to deadlines set for projects – these projects are identified as needed and focused on.
Standard
• Continually striving to improve through teamwork with other employees all related aspects of the business.
• Using objective measurement, identifying problems within the company and subsequently identifying the “root cause” of problems.
• Ensuring always that corrective actions taken to resolve problems are, ultimately, permanent and preventative.
• Assisting, wherever possible, to ensure that all actions, functions and processes in De Heus’s business are conducted in a value-added manner.
• Complying, in line with the Policy Document, departmental procedures and practices.
• Ensuring that any subordinates reporting to you are effectively communicated to with regards to their responsibilities and authorities.
• Control of any company expenditure, which may be entrusted to you, in line with the overall company budget.
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