Senior Specialist, Distributor Experience and Events

3 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Cape National Recruitment Pty Ltd. Full time

Our Client in Woodmead, Jhb, (Health & Retail industry - nutritional products) has a permanent role available for a **Senior Specialist, Distributor Experience and Events (Southern Africa).** This role will report into the Sales & Events Manager - Southern Africa.

Open to all ethnicities with a valid South African ID. Preferably with a **Business or Marketing **qualification.

SKILLS:

- Fluent in spoken and written English (both written & oral). Any additional language advantageous
- Confident & personable with excellent interpersonal and negotiating skills. A good persuader.
- High degree of trustworthiness and integrity
- Presentable, excellent communication skills, service oriented, flexible, energetic, and enthusiastic.
- Able to prioritize, take initiative and work effectively, multiple task management, setting and meeting own deadlines.
- Ability to stay focused when working under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
- Well balanced with the ability to adapt in a changing environment.
- Comprehensive knowledge of organizing and managing large scale events, including control of budgets, and following required company policies.
- Strong analytical skills to propose Distributor promotions that will support growth. This includes in-depth knowledge of Herbalife’s marketing plan to work closely with the company’s business analyst and BI programmes.
- Excellent PC skills (Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, and PowerPoint minimum requirements)

EDUCATION:

- Matric qualification including **English and Math’s essential.**:

- Mid-level education or degree level (ideally in **Business or Marketing**) or a solid commercial education.

EXPERIENCE:

- Minimum **3 years working** experience in **Sales supervisory position** (in the international multi-level marketing/ direct selling industry an advantage)
- Comprehensive prior knowledge and experience in organizing, budgeting for large scale corporate events (up to 4000 people), exhibitions, conferences & seminars. Working with both **internal and external vendors**.
- Managing budgets, market analysis, analyzing sales figures.
- Able to demonstrate an ability to develop strong relationships with others to meet objectives.

Job Responsibilities:

- Events Promotions, Sales & Recognition
- Working in conjunction with key local leaders and management to create and implement an integrated strategy to support our Distributors business needs and to maximize opportunities for growth within the market.
- Establishing a clear Distributor and consumer communication plan and overseeing implementation.
- Dependent on growth of business, recommending potential Distributor promotions and ensuring that they fit within the global strategy. These must be cost effective and deliver Distributor excitement and momentum in addition to brand building.
- To interact with Distributors to identify future growth potential to understand the needs of the markets and daily methods of operation (DMO).
- Through close communication, understand the current strengths, needs and shortcomings of the Distributor base within the country as part of the process of formulating an integrated growth plan.
- Set agendas for local Distributor leadership (Strategy & Planning) meetings.
- Financials
- Manage event and promotions budgets effectively. Ensure attendance targets at corporate run events and trainings hit targets
- Keep line management informed of any significant anomalies in the budgets and provide justifications as appropriate.
- Leadership
- Build strong, positive relationships with your support teams in the relevant functions. Ensure team-oriented co-work within the company.
- As the business grows, develop a team of direct reports to provide best support to the market and manage the team.
- Monitor team performance, identify, and resolve issues.
- Ensure that all administrative activities essential to the running of the department are adhered to, including but not limited to records of timekeeping; overtime; attendance; training; disciplinary action etc. by auditing and monitoring of direct report activities.
- Sets goals and standards for the department teams once previous objectives are reached and obtained.
- Other
- Follow all documented corporate policies/procedures and execute on time.
- Be prepared to step into day-to-day activities to ensure achievement of objectives as necessary and to be prepared to take on additional tasks as reasonably requested.
- Any other ad-hoc requirements deemed necessary by your Sales & Events Manager to support daily operations.
- The nature of the role means that this person must be prepared to travel including our other African markets and may occasionally require other international travel. Travel will include weekends at times.



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