Feed Area Sales Manager at EthioChicken

EthioChicken

Position: Feed Area Sales Manager

Job Time: Full-Time

Job Type: Permanent

Place of Work: Harar, Asella and Jimma - Ethiopia

Posted date: 4 years ago

Deadline: Submition date is over

EthioChicken is a leading distributor of chickens to rural farmers in Ethiopia. We are a rapidly growing company that believes in investing in our employees and offers them opportunities for career advancement. Ethiochicken is an Ethiopian based company. OUR VISION: Our vision is to bring a chicken to every family in Ethiopia in 2021, and a chicken to every person in Ethiopia in the future, transforming the Ethiopian poultry industry, making it a model of inclusive growth. Duties and Responsibilities . Develops specific plans to ensure revenue growth in all feed products . Collaborates with feed business directors and NFSM to develop sales strategies to improve the feed market in all product lines. . Accurately forecasts annual, quarterly, monthly and weekly revenues from feed sales. . Accurately forecasts annual, quarterly, monthly and weekly feed sales volume. . Develop a feed sales plan based on feed market expansion. . Plan how to achieve feed sales volume through prioritizing to make big achievement with minimum effort and shorter time. . Work on promotion activities in the area with woreda coordinator, ASM, and RSM. . Assist or support feed dealers on feed market & knowledge gap on regular visiting and training. . Support commercial farmers technically and train them on spot. . Give technical recommendations during commercial farm visits. . Supervise commercial farms and provide a report on farm supervision to FRSM. Sales activity . Achieve sales volume of feed in the area. . Increase feed dealers and sub feed distributors in the area. . Work with zonal and woreda gov’t team to facilitate feed sale from feed dealers . Manage feed sale areas. . Update & communicates information on competitors’ products for pricing and product. . Follow up feed dealers on all feed business activity. . Locating and developing relationships with new feed customers. . Strongly assess and feedback the result of company feed on end-users. . Handel the dealers feed price not exceeding to the Margin. . Create a market linkage between feed dealers and commercial farmers. . Collect feed samples for lab tests when any defect in the feed is reported. . Work with Ethiochicken wereda coordinators and DOC ASMS on recruiting feed dealers. . Work with Ethiochicken wereda coordinators and DOC ASMS on creating a linkage between feed dealers and commercial farmers. . Provide an update on poultry feed information and technical support to Ethiochicken wereda coordinators and DOC ASMS. Team development - Manage and motivate the feed dealers to achieve targets through support and close supervision and training. - Particularly create good relationships and the environment with related experts and government officials. - Create a good relationship and working environment with ASMS and wereda coordinators. Monitoring and Evaluation - Interprets short- and long-term effects on feed sales strategies in operating profit. - Holds regular meetings with feed dealers and commercial farmers. - Reviews progress offered sales in the area. - Make feed sales assessment results weekly and monthly. Government relation - Develop good working relationships with key sector government officials and experts. - Represent the company on all sector-related meetings and activities. - Have updated government regulations policies and directive which affects our business. KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS . Exceeding volume growth targets . Increased feed order size and feed dealers. . Established strong and reliable feed dealers. . Recruited, trained and deployed vibrant sales team who derive sales function . Develop a strong relationship with sector government structure which supports our business. . Maintain compliance with all company policies and procedures. Job Requirements Education: Degree in Animal Science or Veterinary Medicine (DVM) Work experience: Fresh graduate (0 year) Skills needed - Fluency in Afan Oromo APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS Please title your application with the subject line: - "Feed Area Sales Manager- Oromia" Only candidates meeting the required qualifications are invited to send their applications(Cover Letter) including a detailed CV through e-mail: careers@ethiochicken.com Women are highly encouraged to apply.