Job Description

Afrox, a Linde company

Sales Manager LPG

Cape Town (WC), South Africa | req13879

What you will enjoy doing

• Full accountability for the achievement of revenue streams, profitability, and volume growth, as well as other key performance indicators for selected accounts in the assigned customer-portfolio/s will be required by you
• You will facilitate and support the Regional Manager with implementing initiatives derived from major account plans and ensure activities, roles and responsibilities and measures for achievement are defined and agreed
• Taking responsibility for effective negotiation, management and administration of all contractual obligations, pricing, and other administrative requirements of accounts in portfolio will be your role
• You will maintain, retain, manage, and grow the allocated customer base
• Furthermore, you will be accountable for an Annual Sales Turnover of between R80m to R 100m

What makes you great

• You possess a Degree in Commerce or a Technical discipline with five years' experience in Sales and Marketing with preference for experience as an account manager in the LPG Industry
• You have an in-dept knowledge of Afrox organisation, matrix and products and services and ability to work across organisation and effectively integrate cross-functional priorities
• As a team player, you possess great cross-cultural communication and interpersonal skills, a high computer literacy with working knowledge of SAP R3, as well as a very good command of English
• In addition, a high degree of customer focus, self-motivation, negotiation and conflict resolution, strategic thinking, decision making & execution and business acumen is desirable

Why you will love working with us

The purpose of the position is to manage a portfolio of assigned customer accounts within the LPG Business Unit. The Sales Manager LPG has the responsibility to meet and exceed required sales, profitability & volume targets and ensuring sustainable growth, whilst managing the end-to-end Afrox PSO within the assigned customer base. Afrox is a market leader in gases and welding products and part of Linde. Integrity, compliance and ethics are driving forces behind our dealings with customers. Afrox employees take pride in what they do and turn every challenge into an opportunity.

What we offer you!

At Linde, the sky is not the limit. If you're looking to build a career where your work reaches beyond your job description and betters the people with whom you work, the communities we serve, and the world in which we all live, at Linde, your opportunities are limitless. Be Linde. Be Limitless.

Have we inspired you? Lets talk about it

We are looking forward to receiving your complete application via our online job market.

Application closing date: 21st December 2023

Any designations used of course apply to persons of all genders. The form of speech used here is for simplicity only.

The employment decision shall be informed by the Employment Equity Plan of the company. It is the company's intention to promote equity (race, gender and disability) through the filling of this post(s) with a candidate whose transfer / promotion / appointment will promote representatively in line with the numerical targets as contained in our Employment Equity Plan. The company reserves the right to withdraw posts, if by doing so, the interests of the Company will be best served.

Afrox, a Linde company acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The company is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.

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