SALES SUPERVISOR

Sales Supervisor Job Responsibilities

• Supervise the activities of the sales team including marketing activities like product activations.

• Assist the line manager to recruit, training, enumerating, and retaining a competent sales team.

• Provide reports to top management like sales reports, lead generation reports, customer complaints reports, and new customers’ on-boarded reports.

• Prepare sales presentations and other sales tools.

• Assist the line managers to ensure adequate client communication, maintain contacts with clients and provide feedback.

• Initiate sales activities, strategies, and sales plans required to build brand visibility.

• Serve as a point of reference to employees in terms of showing great work ethic, habits, personal character, and professional character.

• Develop and maintain accurate records of prospects, leads, pricing, sales activities, and active clients.

• Controlling company marketing expenses to ensure the marketing expenditure is kept within budget.

• Attend trade shows and other marketing events and represent the organization.

• Evaluate the performance of the sales team and seek ways to improve the team’s performance.

• Identify the trends in the market, both current, and future that are likely to affect the performance of the organization.

• Ensure the items are displayed correctly in the malls, supermarkets, and other sales points.

Sales Supervisor Skills/Abilities/Knowledge

• Bachelor’s degree in a business-related course with emphasis on marketing.

• Proven work experience in marketing and achieving set targets.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal communication.

• Ability to lead and motivate a sales team, and put in place measures to retain a great team.

• Excellent selling skills, ability to close deals, and deal with post-purchase anxiety.

• Excellent selling skills, people-oriented, and ability to motivate a team.

• Ability to identify potential areas of growth and identify new business partnership opportunities.