Job Description

Requirements:

• Must be able to travel internationally.
• Must have a tertiary qualification preferably a Bachelors Degree in Marketing or Business.
• Must have experience in dealing with international companies and factories in sourcing products.
• Must have experience in dealing major Retail and Online Retailers.
• Must have excellent negotiation skills.
• Must have an eye for electrical items, new and innovative products and concepts.
• Must have experience in sourcing products and know how to source similar items for different factories overseas to get the best quality and price.
• Working knowledge of South African product requirements to import - IE. LOA / ICASA etc.
• Working knowledge of the process of importing products.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Source relevant products in the categories to suit the market and the retail and online partners.
• Sustain and build relationships with the retail and online partners.
• Do sales pitch to sell our products to our retail and online partners.
• Develop new business opportunities.
• Create product launch plan for all new products brought to market.
• Work closely with the sales team as well as regional managers to ensure product placement, and instore merchandising.
• Grow individual categories within the market based on demand.
• Develop, recommend and execute annual sales and marketing plan.
• Implement brand marketing strategies.
• Promotion planning and tracking (sell in and sell out).
• Monitor the implementation of brand identity tools.
• Ensure correct product packaging based on CI Corporate identity.
• Identify and evaluate ideas to maximise competitive advantage.
• Identify trade needs/opportunities, developing pricing and distribution strategies and trade promotions.
• Prepare monthly quarterly sales forecasts.
• Determine and implement strategies to maximise sales and profits.
• Monitor competitive activity (marketing strategies, activities and pricing).
• Monthly monitoring of the entire brand and product portfolio performance vs forecast.
• Ensure product compliance with relevant regulatory associations (ICASA LOA).
• Ordering samples.
• Presenting the samples to retail buyers on all major accounts retail accounts and online retailers to sell the products and concepts, procure orders and build the brand reputation and expand the distribution avenue.

Please consider your application unsuccessful if you are not contacted within two weeks of applying.

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