Jobs Available at Southern Oil (Pty) Ltd

Responsibilities

• Contribute towards maximising selling opportunities within the greater selling team to ensure that all sales opportunities are maximised.
• Grow business in Wholesale market segment by establishing new relationships and develop business opportunities.
• Maintaining and developing relationships with existing customers in person, via telephone calls and emails.
• Arrange meetings with potential customers to prospect for new business.
• Negotiate terms of an agreement and closing sales within authorised parameters.
• Gather market and customer information and give feedback to manager.
• Log client activities on CRM and follow up on clients.
• Manage the respective channels sales agents in respect to merchandising and in-store sales
• Weekly and monthly reporting on activities, figures, and market
• Attain budget across all channels as set out by manager
• Promote product lines by coordinating with store management and media relations teams.
• Create sale goals for each store and communicate them to store management.
• Evaluate metrics on specific product lines and instruct Store Mangers to adjust inventory appropriately
• Prepare monthly and quarterly sales reports and submits your findings and analysis to senior management
• Daily planning, managing draft SO’s with Sales administrator
• Serve as the point of contact with vendors, distributors, and brokers in region.
• Inform senior management of any discrepancies or issues with sales team goals and results.
• Accomplishes sales and organisation mission by completing related results as needed
• Meets regional sales financial objectives by forecasting requirements and preparing an annual budget.
• Effectively implement merchandising strategy
• Basic merchandising of company’s stock on customers shelfs
• Take a photo of the shelf (Before and After)
• Identify if all products have a price talker request a new price indicator (PI) to be printed if there are missing prices
• Identify if there is sufficient stock on the shelf, investigate if there is any stock in the storeroom
• Maintains inventory by restocking shelves with product from inventory; observing inventory levels; prompting store management to reorder when levels appear low
• Ensure that the stock is packed according to set planogram
• Ensure that stock sits at the front of the shelf with label(s) correctly aligned
• Install point of sales (POS) in wholesalers
• Ensure that all point of sale (POS) material is displayed correctly and undamaged, any damaged POS material will be removed and replaced
• Install Free standing units (FSU), Gondola ends and cross merchandising in wholesalers
• Implement cross merchandising strategy
• Market intelligence
• The current selling price of Southern oil products and competitor prices is then captured by sales employee
• Product stock sold per period
• Any quality related issues are escalated to Quality control manager
• Following daily/weekly and monthly call cycle
• Reporting daily/weekly/monthly on set objectives per store per visit
• In store activation(s) (Wet demos)
• Ensure stock is available as agreed for instore activations (wet demos)
• Ensure execution of demo’s weekdays and weekends
• Grow value added sales in the independent market segment per area allocated

 Health and Safety

• Participate in safety forums created by Soill for example safety meetings and safety talks
• Follow-up on any activities assigned through safety meetings / committees / representatives / management
• Report all safety incidents to the relevant people
• Attend safety education and refresher programmes
• Comply with safety policies and procedures at Soill
• Distribute safety information as and when required
• Wear protective clothing (where applicable) at all times

Requirements

Qualification and Experience

• A 2-year diploma in sales/marketing recommended
• Computer literacy – MS Office Suite
• Valid Driver’s license essential 
• At least 5-year relevant experience in the Wholesale environment (FMCG)
• Strong established relationships within FMCG market
• Proven ability to meet sales goals.

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Responsibilities

•  Maintain plant equipment
• Perform plant maintenance during the shutdown period
• Understand and interpret new drawings and manuals
• Install new machines and equipment as and when instructed
•  Responding to emergency machine breakdowns throughout the plant
• Do regular inspections of plant equipment
• Give feedback to Maintenance Supervisors on breakdown root cause analyses
• Attend to all relevant breakdowns during standby period
• Complete DMS Work orders and Work order book to keep a record of work completed
• Apply for parts by making use of the requisition procedure
• Operate the Leathe and Milling machine to manufacture parts and spares
• Machine calibrations and setups
• Automation improvements and installation of electrical equipment
• Maintenance and improvements on electrical control systems

Health and Safety

•  Participate in safety forums created by Soill for example safety meetings and safety talks
•  Follow-up on any activities assigned through safety meetings / committees / representatives / management
• Report all safety incidents to the relevant people
• Attend safety education and refresher programmes
• Comply with safety policies and procedures at Soill
• Distribute safety information as and when required
• Wear protective clothing (where applicable) at all times

Employee management and development

• Ensure overall compliance to relevant procedures and policies
• Ensure that all team members have clearly defined job profiles
• Regular goal reviews are completed to assess achievement of results
• Support, coaching and mentoring is continuously provided to ensure that objectives are met
• Appropriate allocation of resources to meet operational demands
• Ensure adequate succession planning in order to meet ongoing and anticipated business requirements

Requirements

Qualification and Experience:

•  Qualified Trade Certificate as a Millwright
•  Minimum of 3 to 5 years of plant maintenance experience
• Minimum of 2 to 3 years of Turning and Machining experience
• Forklift driver's license advantageous
• Experience in a manufacturing environment advantageous
• Experience in a food manufacturing environment advantageous
• Experience with Tool and Parts Management
•  Computer literacy
•  Experience in ARC, TIG and MIG welding advantageous
• Own transport

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Responsibilities

Receiving  

• Receiving all stock via the Qwix system
• Ensure all stock coming in has the correct pallet ID
• All inbound inspections (Packaging material & customer returns)
• Physical inspections, taking of samples for lab, and capturing on the Qwix system
• Finalizing admin tasks and scanning 

Retrieving samples   

• Samples must be taken of all stock received, bulk oil in flow bins and packaging material, and taken to the lab

Put-away functions       

• Placing of stock in correct bin allocations, when received from bottling or with inbound – adhering to Qwix instructions on scanners

Picking    

• Picking of stock according to the Qwix system – instruction on scanners
• Picking of stock from load sheets if Qwix system is offline
• Picking stock to replenish Bottling daily

Issuing and transfers    

• Transferring and issuing of stock, consumables, and chemicals to bottling and other departments – according to the QWIX scanning system and requisitions

Stock take   

• Doing stock takes and cycle counts as communicated

Rework

• Rework of damaged or QC rejected stock

Housekeeping

• Ensuring all housekeeping is done, on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis according to schedule

Compliance policies and procedures   

• Ensuring that you understand all policies and procedures that is applicable to your department

Health and Safety

• Participate in safety forums created by Soill for example safety meetings and safety talks
• Follow-up on any activities assigned through safety meetings / committees / representatives / management
• Report all safety incidents to the relevant people
• Attend safety education and refresher programmes
• Comply with safety policies and procedures at Soill
• Distribute safety information as and when required
• Wear protective clothing (where applicable) at all times

Requirements

Minimum Qualification and Experience:

• Grade 12
• Literacy in Microsoft Excel/Word /QWIX
• Knowledge of SAP will be advantageous
• Language: English and Afrikaans 
• Forklift licence
• One to two years relevant warehouse experience. 
• Receiving experience
• Inbound & Outbound experience
• Production exposure will be advantageous