Bread Sales Manager

We are looking to hire an experienced Bread Sales Manager to supervise and lead our baking sales staff. The Bread Sales manager's responsibilities include maintaining accurate sales good records, and ensuring that orders for bread are completed on time. You are required to sell all of our bread and pastry products to multi-channel food distribution entities such as Grocery Stores or Supermarkets, Restaurants, Educational Facilities, Hotels, Wholesale Consolidators, Tabletop Retailers etc. This role requires managing existing customer relationships; building relationships with new prospective customers; responding to all incoming leads; and being the production head to meet customer requests and needs.

To be successful as a Bread Sales Manager, you should demonstrate excellent management and problem-solving skills. Ultimately, an outstanding Bread Sales Manager should be able to achieve exceptional customer and enforce staff compliance with food health and safety regulations.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Develop strategic plans to deliver on sales targets in order to grow overall business within existing accounts and pursue business relationships with expansion customers to generate new business.
• Develop street (in-traffic) sales teams to generate and increase daily sales revenue.
• Prospecting for new customers and accounts
• Developing a comprehensive marketing strategy that leverages our brand and capabilities

Requirements

•  Minimum 5-7 years sales experience of working for a bakery or similar establishment in Abuja.
• A combination of education, training and experience that results in demonstrated competency to perform the work may be substituted.

  Skills: This position requires the successful candidate to have the following:

• Extensive experience working in sales leadership or management. Must have contacts in the business of selling bread in multiple institutions
• Experienced and proficient in digital marketing (Instagram, Facebook, Google adwords etc.)
• Excellent organizational, planning, negotiating and people skills
• Excellent communication (written and oral) skills.
• Computer skills and proficiency, specifically Microsoft Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word are desired but not essential
• Self-motivated and confident in pushing for new sales
•   Detail-oriented and Hardworking
• Able to work with little supervision
• Must be able to liase with grassroots individuals/ workers.
• Must know how to multi task.
• Fluency in Yoruba is highly desired/preferable

Method of Application

Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: maplebakeryjobs@gmail.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.