Sales Representative

**DO YOU HAVE THE APPITITE TO GROW YOUR MAGIC?**

Consumers everywhere are increasingly conscious of the quality of the food they eat. Puratos develops, produces, and distributes a unique range of ingredients for bakers, pastry-chefs and chocolatiers who demand the very highest quality.

Founded in Belgium in 1919, Puratos is growing rapidly with over 9000 employees in 75 countries, with a consolidated turnover of over €2 billion in 2019. Our passion for innovation, pioneering spirit, and core value our communities, is what makes working at Puratos so magical.

**POSITION OVERVIEW**

Based at Polokwane Branch, in order to further strengthen our local Sales team, we are currently seeking a:
**SALES REEPRESENTATIVE - **(_Polokwane Branch_, South Africa_)
- Achieving assigned personal sales target,
- Executing sales tasks in assigned channel in accordance with the Artisan Sales Strategy

**KEY ACCOUNTABILITES**
- Maintain & develop customer relationship.
- Deliver sales target for channel in assigned area.
- Explore new sales potential via new customers, new SKU per customer.
- Collect market information including competition information; analyse and submit to direct supervisor.
- Deal with issues related to customers, search for optimal solutions for customers
- Collaborate with Technical Dept to perform technical support to customer.
- Collaborate with Marketing Dept in customer events: Demo tour, Seminars, New product launch.
- Coordinate with other departments for the orders processing, information processing and requests from customers.
- Makes sales forecast and be responsible for the accuracy of sales forecast.
- Is responsible for debt and any late payment or bad debt from customers.
- Assist and coordinating with the Sales Manager for planning and action to develop market share in assigned area.
- Perform regular sales report and market report as required by direct supervisor.
- Other tasks assigned by manager.

**PROFILE**
- Matric and Diploma: Sales/Marketing;
- Experience: > 3-5 years in Sales, B2B is preferable, Food sector (FMCG Market) is preferable;
- Languages: English, Afrikaans, Zulu will be advantageous;
- Computer literacy: Office computer (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Word);
- Other expertise: Business & result driven, presentation skill, strong interpersonal skills: establishes easily contacts, sales and negotiation skills, team player.

**REQUIRED COMPETENCIES**
- Collaborating effectively: spontaneously helps team members, networking, sharing info/results.
- Communicating effectively: actively listening, negotiating, reporting, provides clear explanations that are easy to follow.
- Driving performances: results-driven, planning & prioritizing, solving problems
- Improving continuously: adapts flexibly to changes, open to learn from feedback
- Managing customer needs: understanding customer environment, builds and maintains relationship of customers, implement most suitable solutions that meet customer expectations.

**_Offer_**
- Puratos provides a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment that encourages our people to take initiatives and bring ideas that will contribute to the success of the company. Of course, Puratos offers a competitive package (salary, and market related benefits) but additionally, offers you a position that you can further develop and shape._

**Closing Date: 26 November 2024