DM - Sales Generation Specialist - Professional Lighting (GIS)

About the Role

As a key representative of our company's, the Frontline sales representative should focus on educating End users, Contractors, D&B Specifiers, Dealer network about Jaquars Professional Lighting Solutions (PLS). The role involves specifying Jaquar lighting products, preparing tender Bills of Quantity (BOQ) and sample mock-ups for approvals, renewing agreements with existing accounts, enlisting new customers, The primary aim is to generate revenue by establishing and maintaining strong relationships with Pvt & Govt Institutions and enhance brand presence in such customers segments and ensure prompt collections.

Key Responsibilities

• Educate key decision-makers, contractors, and trade customers about PLS, including company vision, product details, USPs, and customer value
• Establish all PLS verticals in market and ensure specification in BOQ/mock-ups at the project's initial stages
• Generate revenue from existing accounts, renew approvals timely, and ensure zero account loss
• Add new accounts to the customer list and generate revenue from these new accounts
• Maintain price discipline to ensure no financial loss to the company
• Introduce and promote newly launched products by the company to key stakeholders in at Pvt & government institutions
• Maintain good rapport with channel partners for fast execution of orders and mock-ups
• Identify and target specific projects for the promotion of new products, ensuring their inclusion in project specifications
• Secure BOQ (Bill of Quantities) and Mock-up approvals for identified projects, ensuring new products are specified at the initial stages
• Conduct presentations for key decision-makers, trade customers, and contractors at the Orientation Center and plant
• Provide support to government, BD & Hospitality team, for revenue generation activities, resolving issues, including customer care concerns
• Build relationships with end users, contractors, maintain a directory of key officials, and distribute gifts on specific occasions
• Ensure no collections are pending with Dealers or direct accounts beyond 45 days of billing
• Conduct at least 180 productive meetings monthly with external customers
• Responsible to generate PLS revenue from said customers universe
• Monitor and keep track of competitors’ activities
• Ensure the consolidation of the validity/longevity of the approvals enlistments and specifications got done so far in the specifiers, Govt departments, Pvt. customers & Others
• Add more new end customers to the existing list by identifying and carrying out a similar exercise as has been done for approval enlistment
• Provide data on time to HO and ensure the same from the respective team members
• Update database from all the departments on the officials, their designation, office etc. for best use of it
• Monitoring monthly performance of sales target, business conversion, mock up approvals & review SOW extraction plan.

Key Attributes

• Prior experience in Lighting sales
• Expertise in market development
• Familiarity with B2B lighting working processes
• A well-established network of Pvt & Govt customers
• Strong Lighting product knowledge
• Experience in independently handling clients
• Proficiency in securing approvals from customers
• Well, acquainted with order processing process
• Able to manage dealers & their query/issues