Country Manager
- Cape Town, Western Cape
- Temporary
- Full-time
- Develop and implement effective sales strategies.
- Lead nationwide sales team members to achieve sales targets.
- Developing and driving new business development strategies meant to create healthy, quality sales pipelines that lead to new client acquisition.
- Ensuring existing business retention is achieved through excellent product and service offerings
- Generation of new revenue and growth of revenue from existing business that contributes to overall group revenue
- Capable of leading large scale but diverse operations and bringing best practice to delivery processes.
- Competent negotiator, capable of balancing strong customer relationships with commercial success for the company.
- Yearly budgets
- Manage business performance and productivity
- Effectively managing the South African team fostering a motivational inclusive culture
- Building and managing company image by collaborating with strategic customers, partners, vendors, government, community organisations, and other stakeholders
- Responsible for the budget and P&L of the area.
- Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual sales forecasts
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, management or a related field (preferably a master's degree).
- Postgraduate degree in sales, finance
- 5+ years retail sales experience
- Remittance sales experience mandatory
- Digital sales experience advantageous
- Both Sales & Marketing experience is a non negotiable
- 3+ Years experience in heading up a successful sales team
- A good knowledge base of the country/region, and a willingness to learn
- Good people-management skills
- Ability to travel locally and internationally