Job Description

Our Vision
You will drive "sell-out" success through active demonstrations, store staff training, and exceptional after-sales support. A great fit is a pioneering professional with strong technical knowledge of power tools and a knack for building lasting commercial relationships.
Your mission

• Keep an overview: Monitor and coordinate the presentation of all products to ensure brand merchandising and neatness meet our high standards.
• Take responsibility: Own the selling process for the CAT brand within major retailers like Makro and Builders (Massmart/Walmart).
• Rely on your expertise: Contribute your technical know-how of garden products and power tools to support stores with repairs and end-user queries.
• Achieve more together: Play a key role in developing regional strategies with Key Account Managers (KAM) and implementing them timeously.
• Be a trusted partner: Serve as a point of contact for independent customers, specifically calling on them to grow the Kress brand.
• Get involved: Implement sell-out activities, including live demos, regional events, and customer workshops.
• Teamwork matters: Contribute to the success of regional fairs and trade shows by engaging with both dealer staff and end users.
• Bring your ideas to the table: Help shape and optimize the training of store salesmen to build stronger brand advocacy and relationships.
• Get out and about: Actively manage your territory from Mossel Bay to East London and Port Elizabeth to Bloemfontein.
• Support your partners: Provide consistent after-sales service to ensure customer satisfaction and long-term loyalty.

Your profile

• Your experience: Proven background in sales, specifically calling on independent customers or big-box retailers.
• Your mindset: You are a pioneer with a strong commercial sense and the ability to work independently across a large geographic scope.
• Your technical skills: Deep familiarity with power tools and garden equipment to provide technical support and training.
• Your connections: Ideally, you already have established relationships with stores and decision-makers in the region.
• Language skills: Excellent English skills, complemented by a second South African language.
• Your location: Based in or willing to travel extensively across the Southern Cape and Eastern Cape areas.

Why us?

• Permanent employment contract: Be part of our success story and use your creative freedom to shape your career through diverse and challenging tasks.
• On top: Benefit from a 50% subsidy Medical Aid
• Corporate social responsibility: Includes a 10% contribution of salary to company pension schemes.
• Employee benefits: Get the right tools for your you to do your job, eg phone, laptop
• Structured onboarding: A comprehensive introduction to help you get to know your tasks and the Positec Brands
• Fully equipped: Receive a company car (also for private use) including a fuel card,

About us
Positec Group is an international company headquartered in Suzhou, China, with more than 4,000 employees worldwide, operating primarily under the Worx and Kress brands. As one of the leading suppliers of robotic mowers, power tools and garden tools, our goal is to offer our customers the right tools and smart ideas for the implementation of their projects.
At our EMEA headquarter in Cologne, we are an open and diverse team of nearly 80 people, consisting of doers, thinkers and analysts. In addition to the contribution that each individual makes to our success story, togetherness also plays a major role for us. We don't just talk about social responsibility, we live it.
"Profit alone cannot inspire a company to become a great company [...] Whether it's developing products that are safe, valuing each and every employee, being a good citizen in our community, or minimizing our carbon footprint; it's all part of our shared dream to build a sincere sustainable company." - Don Gao (CEO Positec Technology)

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