Regional Account Manager at Lewis Group Ltd

About the job

One of South Africa’s leading furniture and appliance
retailers have the following vacancy:

REGIONAL ACCOUNTS MANAGER

Key Outputs

•  Target driven and seek to achieve above the required standards in cash, collections, credit controlling and complaint management.
•  Able to adapt to various environments when relieving and to take control in that environment in a short period of time.
•  Demonstrate customer care and staff control through effective managerial skills.
•  To be personally involved with the actioning of problematic accounts in branches.
•  To ensure that the company credit/debtors’ policies and procedures are effectively introduced and implemented.
•  Demonstrate effective staff management, motivation and training skills.

Key Requirements

•  Must have grade 12 or NQF level 4 qualifications.
•  Be confident, self-motivated and driven to succeed.
•  Must have good communication skills and able to motivate staff.
•  Have at least 5 years credit experience in a furniture retail business with nothing less than 2 years’ experience in a management / 2IC role.
•  Be able to work unsupervised.
•  Must have a valid driver’s license.
•  Be able to set standards and implement collection drives on a regional basis.
•  Have at least 2 years experience in debtors controlling, with good performance results.
•  Able to work and perform under pressure.

This position will require traveling extensively and if needed to sleep out from time to time.

• COVID-19 precautions:
• Temperature screenings
• Social distancing guidelines in place
• Sanitizing, disinfecting, or cleaning procedures in place