Head of Sales

Amatheon Agri is a European agribusiness and farming company developing and operating sustainable agriculture and food projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, headquartered in Berlin.

In 2015, Amatheon Agri acquired a majority stake in a leading meat processing company and has since consolidated four businesses into the Real Meat Group and become the second largest meat processor in Zambia.

The Real Meat Group is inviting vibrant suitable applicants to fill the following vacancy:

Head of Sales

Job Purpose

Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer, you will be responsible for developing sales strategies and ensuring efficient utilisation of budgets and manpower

Duties and Responsibilities

• Define a medium and long-term sales strategy
• Compile weekly and monthly sales reports by monitoring sales performances against budget
• Develop and implement a channel plan in order to maximise volume, profit and share performance
• Ensure that objectives in terms of availability, visibility, volume, margin, quality and customer price of products are achieved
• Define customer trading terms in the commercial planning

Qualifications & Experience

• University Degree in Marketing, Business Administration or any related field
• Minimum of ten (10) years sales experience of which at least two years should be in a senior management role
• Experience in the meat processing, manufacturing or Fast Moving Consumer Goods industry will be an added advantage
• Excellent communication, negotiation and budgeting skills
• Advanced knowledge of budgeting and report writing

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