Sales Manager

Sales Manager to drive a business forward by selling its products or services to customers

Your role as a sales manager is to sell a company's products and services to businesses, and government organisations. 

As well as approaching potential customers with the aim of winning new business, you'll strive to maintain good relationships with existing clients, gaining repeat business wherever possible.

Responsibilities of Manager Sales

You'll need to:

• Drive the sales operations 
• Build good working relationships
• Understand the needs of your business customers
• Research the market and related products
• Present the product or service favourably and in a structured professional way face-to-face.

For this role, you'll be required to:

• Negotiate on price, costs, delivery and specifications with buyers and managers
• Record sales and order information, sending copies to the sales office, or entering figures into a computer system
• Represent the company at trade exhibitions, events, and demonstrations
• Review your own sales performance, aiming to meet or exceed targets
• Attend team meetings and share best practice with colleagues.

Qualifications

Graduation in business, management or marketing

Academic qualifications with pleasing personality, attitude and abilities and a strong commercial awareness and excellent communication skills are particularly desirable attributes.

Skills

You'll need to have:

• The ability to build the team 
• The ability to manage the branch and region operations
• The ability and desire to sell
• Excellent communication skills
• a positive, confident and determined approach
• Resilience and the ability to cope with rejection
• a high degree of self-motivation and ambition
• The skills to work both independently and as part of a team
• The capability to flourish in a competitive environment
• a good level of numeracy
• a full driving licence