Job Description
Job Title: Business Executive,
Status: Full Time,
Reports to: Directors,
Location : Nairobi Kenya,
Job Summary:
To implement and drive sales strategies for the Company and ensure sales targets for Ithaga TV are met within all given monthly deadlines
Key Responsibilities:
• Develop strategic and competitive sales marketing concepts.
• Visit clients and make sales pitches and ensure swift and efficient closure of the deal.
• Acquire new clientele and update the Directors promptly.
• Maintain effective customer care services.
• Submit weekly forecasts to help determine which clients to critically focus on to maximize sales volume and growth.
• Follow up on sales collections and ensure timely payments by all clients.
• Adhere to the company’s credit policy with no debt beyond the credit period.
• Provide excellent account management in line with this, cultivate the first point of contact between the station and clients and use excellent interpersonal skills to keep the business relationships strong.
• Ensure that your dressing and conduct fully represents a professional company.
• Undertake a strategic and value adding approach to selling.
• Handle sales administrative issues as necessary.
• Conduct price surveys, customer satisfaction surveys and other market research.
• Conduct market intelligence on media gaps and business opportunities.
• Work closely with the creative graphic designers to prepare mockups that can sell and position them as per the Company’s strategy.
• Prepare weekly reports and any other reports as agreed with the Directors to enable timely guidance or any intervention.
• Reconcile customers accounts on a monthly basis and work with the Finance team to ensure monthly statements are signed off and dispatched to all clients.
Qualifications
• Degree: Degree in Marketing, Commerce, Sales or related field
• Experience: At least 3 years’ experience in the Media Industry
• Fluent in spoken Kikuyu Language & English
Skills & Abilities
• Excellent leadership skills.
• Strong business acumen.
• Flexibility with strong coordinating and communication skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to multitask.
• Ability to keep abreast of the latest trends and seize opportunities.
• Impeccable personal integrity.