Sales and Export Manager – Organic Africa 349 views

Job Summary
Organic Africa, with its partners B’Ayoba, KaZa, La Rochelle Centre and Stevia Zimbabwe, embodies the future of farming in Africa. Organic Africa is the leading producer of organic and Fair-trade produce in Southern Africa. We are a socially responsible entrepreneurship cultivating high value certified products together with our partner farmers and wild collectors for the global market. We are committed to social, environmental and economic sustainability.
We have the following vacant position:

Sales and Export Manager

Reports to: Chief Executive Officer

Duties And Responsibilities
 Develops and manages the performance of subordinates in achievement of agreed strategy, business plans and budgets.
 Develops and implements annual sales targets and plans in line with strategic objectives
 Builds and maintains effective customer relationships
 Oversees export process for each export sale to ensure goods are received by customers on time, within cost and to specification.
 Monitors existing and identifies and develops new markets and market opportunities
 Negotiates and develops relationships with new distributors/commercial partners.
 Develops and maintains effective and efficient networks and market analysis to ensure competitor activity is known and threats mitigated where needed
 Collects outstanding funds from all debtors
 Ensures a continuous cycle of review for improvement
 Holds weekly meeting with sales team reviewing performance against targets and agreeing corrective or new actions in order to meet targets.
 Develops customer service standards to guide all interactions between the company and its customers.
 Develops and implements quarterly relationship management plan, including regular communication with all customers to ensure that customer satisfaction levels are developed and maintained.

Qualifications And Experience
Minimum Requirements:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing Management or similar
• 8 Years work experience in a similar position which is a managerial.
• Experience in certification