Sales Manager at Procter & Gamble

Your Role

As an Associate Sales Manager, you directly receive meaningful responsibilities as of day one. You are in charge for maintaining and expanding a long-term partnership with your customer by continuously proposing solutions and plans that meet their objectives. To do so, you’ll develop a keen understanding of your product categories and markets. Whilst building the plans, you will not only develop your negotiating and sales skills, but also your financial & marketing skills, analytical insights and logistical understanding as you are responsible for your client from A-Z. You'll be part of a customer team in which trust, team spirit, real passion for winning and leadership are very important.

Responsibilities

• Developing and maintaining a productive long term relationship with your customer
• Acquire a deep understanding of your customer needs and requirements
• Acquire an in-depth understanding of your shoppers, categories and market
• Adapting and optimizing country commercial guidelines to your specific client
• Negotiating contracts, promo plans and innovations
• Preparing volume forecast and plans
• Collaborating very closely with teams from other departments;
• Resolve any issues and problems of your clients and act as a link between your customer and the internal teams.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, please note that all recruitment stages (assessments and interviews) will be done virtually.

What We Offer

• At Procter and Gamble, we don’t just offer a job, we offer a career with varying assignments and lots of development opportunities, so that we develop our leaders of tomorrow.
• Training : you are integrated in the team with a full training program. You will learn communication and selling skills, the management of a customer portfolio, the analysis and priority settings, trained to specifics corporate trainings.

Qualifications
We are looking for:

• Fresh graduates with a Bachelor’s/Master's Degree and 0-1 years of work experience
• Born leaders and are passionate to make things happen, collaborating well with diverse groups of people
• Have an external focus and a real passion for Sales / Marketing
• Like to bring creativity & innovation to your work
• Strong analytical thinking and skills
• South African Citizenship
• Valid driver’s license

Just so you know:

• You will get a competitive compensation package, in line with your qualifications and experience.
• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. Our people are all equally talented in unique ways: we come from diverse traditions, personal experiences and points of view. And we want to include yours. Are you ready to inspire us with your unique ideas?