Head of Sales and Marketing at RTS GLOBAL PARTNERS

This position is specifically for the Furniture Industry. 

Key responsibilities:

1. Develop strategies and tactics to get the word out about our company and drive qualified traffic to our front door.
2. Develop & maintain pipelines in order to directly target sales.
3. Sales training - Increase their potential to close a deal.
4. Deploy successful marketing campaigns and own their implementation from ideation to execution.
5. Experiment with a variety of organic and paid acquisition channels – content creation, content curation, pay per click campaigns, event management, publicity, social media, lead generation campaigns, copywriting, performance analysis, etc.
6. Build strategic relationships and partner with key industry players, agencies and vendors.
7. Develop, apply and manage a highly disciplined approach to managing the sales process (e.g. requiring meeting notes and sales reports from all members of the sales team, a follow-up process) to ensure that opportunities are maximized.
8. Be in charge of Sales & Marketing budget and allocate/invest funds.
9. Analyse market trends and recommend changes to marketing and business development strategies based on analysis and feedback.
10. Gather and analyse customer insight.
11. Develop and lead a Sales & Marketing team that will develop and execute new concepts, business models, channels and partners to position business as innovator and leader.
12. Setting sales targets for individual reps and your team as a whole.
13. Prepare and submit plans, budgets, progress reports and annual sales reports.
14. Develop goals and objectives, projects and priorities and assign them to Sales Managers and Team leaders.
15. Meets marketing and sales financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analysing variances; initiating corrective actions.

Key Aptitudes:

1.     Interpersonal communication

2.     Quality focus

3.     Analytical knowledge

4.     Training skills

5.     Creativity  

6.     Influencing and negotiation skills

7.     Problem solving skills

8.     Management skills  

9.     Innovative

Preferred Experience:

1.     5- 10 years’ experience

2.     Interior and Furniture industry (mainly luxury goods)

3.     Bachelor’s Degree in a Business related field

4.     Excellent verbal and written communication skills