Area Sales Manager - FMCG

The candidate should have 3-6 years of relevant experience in the current managerial role. The location of the job will be in Chennai with outstation travel of 10-15 days a month.

The details of the job are given below:

Job Responsibilities -

- Apply and lead the commercial business strategy at the area level to achieve sell-in and sell-out sales targets

- Act as guarantor for the image and policy of his/her brands in his/her area

- Develop trusting relationships with key customers in the area, including the area specific management of national channel partners.

- Perform monthly monitoring of the sales in/out for the major accounts

- Motivate sales teams in the area: recruit, develop, ensure the development of their expertise and know-how

- Coordination between the sales and technical teams at the field level to ensure unified execution of commercial strategy

- Maintain close cooperation between the area sales force and regional sales and business management

- Contribute to and coordinate the winning of new key clients

- Support the modernization of points of sale through the deployment of services (business and salon training programmes

Key Deliverables:

- Drive Sales

- Facilitate Education

- Team Management

- Business Development

Technical Skillsets:

- Sensitivity to beauty

- Sales objectives

- Relationship orientation to manage distributors and achieve secondary

- Interpersonal skills

Team Size:

- People management of Business Development Officers/Executives (BDO/BDE) - 3 to 4

Key Relationships:

- Internal: Sales, Merchandising, Controller, Education Team, Supply Chain, Logistics, Human Resources

- External: Distributor, Customers, DSRs