Sales Support

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Barry Callebaut Full time

Sales Support - FM South Africa

**Location**:Johannesburg, GT, ZA, 2021At Barry Callebaut, we are on a journey to transform the cocoa and chocolate industry. As the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality chocolate and cocoa products, our actions truly shape the future of our industry. We are a business-to-business company, serving the entire food sector, from the cocoa bean to the finest chocolate product. We are a company with a purpose, we believe in doing well by doing good and reinvesting in the communities we operate. We have a long-standing commitment to sustainability and our goal is to shape a sustainable cocoa and chocolate future. We are headquartered in Zurich, and have more than 12,000 passionate Employees working in more than 40 countries worldwide. We are very proud of who we are and what we do. And of course, we are always looking for talented people to help us have a positive impact on our industry and beyond

**About The Role**
- The role of Sales Support will be a combination of sales planning, administrative support, pricing support and account support. In addition, the primary responsibilities are to support the Sales Manager with the reporting, customer pricing quotations, FM contracts, business review preparation and updating of the SAP and Salesforce Systems.**Key Responsibilities Include**
- Deal with daily customer queries and resolve customer requests; refers more complex queries to the Sales Manager for guidance and support, ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction through excellent sales service.
- Ascertain customer needs, and uphold strong, proactive communication with, and response times to customer requests, keeping both the customer and the Sales Manager informed and updated throughout the process.
- Reporting on customer meetings and diligently managing timelines.
- Receive sample requests, obtain approval from the Sales Manager and check stock availability at the Academy and ship to customer; where there is no stock available, check with GMPF or request from the appropriate global office after logging the request on Salesforce; follow-through to ensure timely delivery to customer.
- Coordinate Requests for Certificates for Halaal, Kosher, Specification Sheets and particular product queries through to completion; submit to the QA department after input into Salesforce, download responses and submit to the customer.
- Monitor contract balances on existing contracts and submit to the Sales Manager for analysis. Flag contracts due for expiry during the current or following month.
- Coordinate the request for pricing with the relevant global office and assist with preparation of customer quotes.
- Communicate semi-annual price adjustments along with promotion or rebates.
- Assist in collection of past due invoices and resolve BC/Customer technical issues that prevent payments; set up new customers with credit control/customer master.
- Track samples daily in liaison with the Courier Company.
- Attend weekly Sales Meetings with the Sales Managers and sales staff to ensure all requests for support are effectively dealt with; coordinate sales meetings as requested.
- Update Salesforce daily to ensure real time, accurate data availability.
- Compile various reports requested by the Sales Manager in Excel using complex formulas and pivot tables.

**About You**
- B-Degree or Diploma in Business or Finance
- 2 - 3 years’ experience within an internal sales/ sales support/ customer service environment, with experience in quoting and pricing
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Google Mail
- Experience with SAP or similar ERP system
- Good level of English command, both written and oral

**Other Attributes**
- Ability to make product recommendations and understanding upselling
- Exceptional customer focus and relationship building
- Good problem-solving skills
- Resilient and supportive to customers
- Used to working in a high volume, fast paced, ever-changing environment
- Self-motivated, flexible, and able to adapt to change in circumstances
- Ability to multitask, priorities and manage time effectively
- Good attention to detail
- A good team player with a happy and positive nature
- Must be able to spend extended hours sitting at computer terminal

At Barry Callebaut, we are committed to Diversity & Inclusion. United by our strong values, we thrive on the diversity of who we are, where we come from, what we’ve experienced and how we think. We are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment where people can truly be themselves, grow to their full potential and feel they belong. **#oneBC - Diverse People, Sustainable Growth.**

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