Sales Manager at Corporate Staffing

Key Responsibilities

• Managing organizational sales by developing a business plan that covers sales, revenue, and marketing expense controls. Execute said plan and meet sales goals.
• Setting individual sales targets with the sales team.
• Overseeing the activities and performance of the sales team. Provide ongoing training of the salespeople. 
• Own recruiting, objectives setting, coaching, and performance monitoring of sales representatives.
• Develop new avenues of marketing and lead generation.
• Equip the sales team through motivation, counseling, and product knowledge education.
• Understand our ideal customers and how they relate to our products.
• Develop and cultivate long-term relationships with prospective consumers and other related industries to help strengthen partnerships.
• Leverage the existing network and expand the company’s product reach and repeat business through relationship building and exceptional customer experience.
• Collaborate with the team to properly coordinate project implementation, and customer service support interface, and proactively address problems/customer issues, ensuring customer satisfaction.
• Provide regular feedback to management on market trends, competitive threats, and opportunities to deliver greater value to customers.
• Strategic reporting on all sales activities including sales and prospecting activities, sales calls, presentations, closed sales, and follow-up activities.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of proven experience managing and directing a sales team.
• Successful previous experience as a sales representative and sales manager, consistently meeting or exceeding targets.
• Spoken and written English communication with the highest standards of professionalism is required.
• Proficiency in customer relationship management. 
• Capable of grasping the structure & intricacies of the business & markets.
• Willingness and drive to learn quickly and become proficient in a unique field of work: the breeding and selling of premium puppies in the United States.
• Must be a fast learner, highly self-motivated, capable of producing high-impact work without supervision, adaptable, and self-confident.
• Creativity to solve problems and develop ideas to improve workflow and efficiency.
• Mental and emotional fortitude to thrive in a fast pace, high-production, performance-driven environment. 
• High business acumen with excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate complex information and adapt it to specific customers.
• Strong relationship-building skills with a high degree of responsiveness, reliability, and integrity.
• Driven with a persuasive, enthusiastic, and client-centric focus.
• Previous experience in sales and customer service with high-profile, high-net-worth, VIP clientele is a bonus.
• Required to work on a USA business hours work schedule, working afternoons to late evenings in Kenya time