Sales and Brand Ambassador at Savannah Brands

About the Role

Savannah Brands is hiring for a Sales and Brand Ambassador, with the opportunity to grow into a Sales and Marketing Manager. This role would be responsible for the growth of the beverage and snack brands in bars, restaurants, hotels and cafes. This will also involve helping to define and execute how to grown the Savannah Brands portfolio through customer engagement and new customer acquisition in the On Trade.

The Sales and Brand Ambassador will be responsible for growing sales by building strong customer and consumer relationships.

Detailed Responsibilities

• Account Management
  • Define and execute on customer contracts
  • Own the timely distribution of products to ensure minimum out of stocks
  • Optimise sales in account through:
  • Maximising visibility in bar/ restaurant/ hotel - through placement, brand point of sale etc.
  • Activations – including sampling, influencer engagement etc.
  • Ensuring availability of the product - Checking out of stock of product portfolio and generating re-orders
  • Pricing – Reporting on pricing and ensuring correct RRP is displayed
  • Competition – reporting back on activations from competition and share recommendations on how to optimise
  • Relationship Building – Building relationships with the bar managers
  • Learnings – Sharing recommendations on how to improve sales growth at bar level and beyond
  • Quality & Quantity bar visits
  • Ensuring all bar visits are well documented
  • Define and execute a promotion plan for key accounts including Alchemist, Brew Bistro and Carrefour
  • Develop point of sale items with local agencies in alignment with Director
• New Distribution
  • Identify and lock relevant new accounts for the product range
  • Build relationships with new accounts
  • Own and deliver on the growth targets for the month
• Influencers/ Social Media
  • Engage key influencers in bars to grow word of mouth about our beverage products
  • Work with social media manager to amplify these online
• Activations/ Events
  • Define an annual events schedule for the year
  • Book key events in alignment with Director for the year
  • Run the monthly product activations in store and at events including managing the set-up, the promoters, engaging consumers and amplifying each activation online.
  • Engage and entertain influencers at key events
• Budget Management
  • Own an activation budget monthly
  • Report monthly on spend vs. plan

Desired Candidate Profile

Does this sound like you?

• At least 3 years’ experience in Sales, Retail
• Great spoken and written English and Kiswahili
• Strong track record of building relationships with consumers and customers
• You have both commercial acumen and the charisma & creativity to grow sales
• You are an extrovert, able to find, build and nurture relationships with new customers and sales channels
• You are independent and reliable, able to work with minimal direction and meet targets
• You are ambitious, results driven, a hustler