Roles and responsibilities

• Conduct continuous market surveys and relay such information to Management regarding competitors and customer opinions.

• Receive orders from customers and submit them for invoicing.

• Attend to customers, offer technical details of the paint, give quotations and subsequently close those deals.

• Generate new business deals and accounts.

• Liaise with the internal sales and stores teams to ensure that invoiced orders are dispatched and delivered to the client.

• Follow up on payments from customers by collecting cheques or Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) copies as it is against the company policy for sales executives to collect cash from customers.

• Maintain a relationship with customers for stock replenishing.

• Manage client relationships while maintaining credit limits as per policy.

• Issue account statements to keep customers updated on account status.

• Generate feedback on product performance for research and development.

• Review sales targets and achievements made regularly.

• Prepare periodic progress reports and accountabilities.

• Perform any other duties assigned as the need may arise.

Academic and professional qualifications

• Bachelor of Commerce, Business Administration, Entrepreneurship or equivalent.

Work experience

• At least 2 years’ experience in sales or marketing in a busy organization preferably in the paint industry.

Additional skills

• Self-motivated energetic individual with excellent planning and negotiation skills.

• Direct, hands-on experience selling paint products at construction sites is essential.

• Ability to use product knowledge to offer appropriate advice to customers.

• Good negotiation and customer relationship building skills.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.