Sales Manager Job in Kenya

Job title: Sales Manager

Department: Sales and Marketing

Reports to:

• Sales and Marketing Manager
• Director

Responsible for (Direct reports):

• Cashier
• Cleaners
• Loader
• Administration officer
• CRO

Location: Kisumu and Nairobi, Kenya

Job Purpose:

• To provide both pre- and after-sales advice for clients in order to maximise sales of CO2 products and provide technical advice to clients.
• Develops and implements a marketing and sales strategy

Responsibilities (Functions and duties):

• Acquires new clients and maximizes client potential in designated regions;
• Develops long-term relationships with clients through managing and interpreting their requirements;
• Carries out follow up on sales process
• Oversees customer complaints within the designated region in liaison with head office
• Calculates client quotations and administers client accounts
• Disseminates sales documentation including invoicing and payment dispatches
• Assists in negotiating tender and contract terms and conditions to meet both client and company needs
• Provides pre-sales technical assistance and product education, and after-sales support service that includes quality checks of products supplied
• Ensures logistics and distribution of products from plant to the Nairobi depot and from the depot to the clients sites
• Matches solutions to customer's technical requirements.
• Keeps track of the inventory at the depot and ensures the re order levels
• Prepares regular sales reports for head office
• Meets sales targets
• Carries out market intelligence
• Supports marketing activities by attending trade shows, conferences and other marketing events
• Makes technical presentations and demonstrations to potential customers
• Ensure that health and safety guidelines are followed
• Manage sales and marketing budget

Performance Measures and Targets:

• Ensures that Sales targets are met
• Ensures sales are paid for
• Ensures customer satisfaction
• Ensures Safety health and Environment compliance
• Ensure the depot is managed efficiently in a cost effective manner
• Ensure all depot reports are prepared and disseminated in time

Role Reports:

• Sales reports
• Operational reports:
• Customer feedback report
• Competitor analysis

Experience:

• Two and half years of experience within the industry

Qualifications:

Academic: Bachelor of science (BSC.) in chemical or mechanical engineering

Professional: Diploma in sales and Marketing

Specialist knowledge required:

• ICT skills
• Understanding of accounting principles
• Understanding of behaviour of various gases
• Use of and dynamics involving industrial gases

Behavioural Competencies:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Time management skills
• Tenacity
• Organisation skills
• Negotiating skills
• Strategic Thinking
• Self driven
• Service oriented
• Positive and self motivated

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AutoXpress Job Vacancy Office Cleaner

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We represent world class brands and use state-of-the-art equipment to deliver to our clients fast, efficient and truly superior service with an identifiable difference.

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Position: Office Cleaner

Reports To: Receptionist

Purpose: Reporting to the Receptionist, the Office Cleaner will ensure that the office is kept clean and office refreshments are prepared on time. She/he will maintain high standards of cleanliness in the Directors’ offices and perform all kitchen duties.

Position Description and Responsibilities:

• On daily basis, ensure that the Directors’ offices are cleaned to include: sweeping, washing office floors; dusting equipment desks, removing trash, cleaning windows and ensure that the office is in an overall presentable condition.
• Ensure drinking water is available at the beginning of each work day; prepare requests in advance of need to ensure availability and obtain appropriate approval.
• Ensure all cutleries and fridges are well cleaned.
• Prepare refreshments for visitors throughout the workday and as requested for meetings.
• Prepare and serve tea to senior staff during tea break times.
• Assist in monitoring and reporting all repair and maintenance requirement for the entire office.
• Make sure all shutters are closed, lights are off except the security lights after office working hours.
• Perform all essential functions of the position and other related duties as assigned

Education and Qualifications:

Education: O’ level Certificate

Experience: Similar activities for at least one year.

Competencies:

• Ability to work with minimum supervision
• Ability to serve different people.
• Ability to work under pressure
• Team player
• High standards of personal hygiene
• Willingness to take initiative

How to Apply

Please submit your cover letter and curriculum vitae (including salary history) to: hr@auxpke.com not to reach us later than Wednesday, December 14th, 2011.
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Advocacy and Communication Coordinator - Save the Children Somalia Job Vacancy

Introduction

Save the Children has a long history of engagement in Somalia and in Somaliland stretching as far back as 1954. In more recent times (since 1992) Save the Children UK has maintained an operational office in Hiran Region in what is now called the Central South Zone of Somalia (CSS) and since 2000, both Save the Children Denmark and UK have been working in Somaliland.

In response to the Tsunami that hit the coast of Puntland in 2004 Save the Children UK established an office in Puntland State and continues to undertake programmes from this office while Save the Children Denmark in Puntland works through partners.

In the past two years Save the Children Finland has been financially supporting the work of both Save the Children Denmark and UK in Somalia/Somaliland.

The current interventions of the organisations broadly consist of child protection; education including skills training and employment and child survival (emergency, health and livelihood).

It is planned that the programmes being run or supported by Save the Children Denmark, Finland and United Kingdom will follow the global initiative of the Save the Children Alliance and will unify by January 2010 with Save the Children UK as the managing member.

This will increase significantly the work being carried out currently by any single member and will lead to a much larger and complex single programme.

For this reason it has been decided that all senior management positions will be advertised and this Job Description relates to a new position for Advocacy and Communication Coordinator.

This position makes up part of the Partnership and Quality Programming team of the overall SC’s program in Somalia / Somaliland.

Job Purpose

The Advocacy and Communication Coordinator is responsible for identifying advocacy issues, preparing and implementing advocacy plans, documentation and communicating lessons and good practice from implementing programs to various users.

In addition, the coordinator is responsible for building the capacity of staff of SC in identifying and undertaking advocacy initiatives aimed at changing practices and policies for betterment of children’s lives.

Key Accountabilities

• Play an active role in developing an advocacy strategy of Save the Children program in Somalia/Somaliland
• Identify key policy and practice related advocacy issues in relation to the situation of children and the programs of Save the Children in Somalia/Somaliland. This include undertaking analysis of the work of SC and/or the sector of children in Somalia/Somaliland in light of advocacy and initiate any possible changes that could improve both the work of SC and the lives of children.
• To undertake a stakeholders analysis of key players in Somalia and Somaliland and identify potential partners with whom we can work closely in advocacy initiatives.
• Through extensive networking with partners map out the work and plans of other stakeholders in respect to identified areas of advocacy and suggest possible ways of collaboration and/or addressing the issue by SC.
• Develop an advocacy plan in consultation with managers and coordinators of various themes and ensure implementation of the same
• Document lessons and good practices from programs of SC and communicate them with various stakeholders including donors, children, partners and other general users. This includes ensuring that SC’s advocacy efforts are supported by evidence and experience obtained from implementation of programs.
• Build the capacity of project staff in documenting and communicating lessons and good practices, carrying out practice and policy analysis, identifying and developing advocacy messages, planning and implementing advocacy plans. In this to secure the support of the information and communications officer who is based in Hargeisa
• Work closely with information and communication officer in documentation and sharing of lessons learned.
• Work closely with thematic coordinators and program managers in developing project proposals and ensure that proposals include sufficient advocacy components
• Represent Save the Children in various advocacy fora.
• Perform other tasks as requested by his/her immediate supervisor.

Working Contacts

Internal: All staff members in the SC Somalia/Somaliland program in general, program managers and thematic coordinators in particular

External: Partners and other important stakeholders

Person Specification

• Degree in social science, human rights, development, journalism etc.
• At least four years experience in documentation, communication and advocacy works
• Strong ability in analyzing the situation of children using the child rights programming/principles framework
• Experience in policy and practice analysis and implementing advocacy initiatives aimed at bringing changes in these areas
• Strong inter-organisational skills such as networking, negotiation and communication.
• Willing and able to travel up to 50% of the time to Somalia/Somaliland to support field teams as security permits
• Strong computer skills to produce advocacy documents and document and communicate good practices.

Code of Conduct

Because Save the Children's work is based on deeply held values and principles, it is essential that our commitment to children's rights and humanitarian principles is supported and demonstrated by all members of staff.

Save the Children's Code of Conduct sets out the standards.

Applications should be forwarded to: vacancies@scsom.org

This position is only open to Kenyan nationals.

Only short listed individuals will be notified.

Application Closing Date: Monday 26th Dec 2011, 15:00 pm
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