Regional Sales Executives (9 Career Vacancies)-Uganda

Job Title:Regional Sales Executives (9 Career Vacancies)

Organisation:Monitor Publications Limited (MPL)

Duty Station:  Arua, Lira, Soroti, Mbale, Tororo, FortPotal, Masaka, Kabale, Hoima, Uganda

Reports to: Regional Sales Representatives

About MPL:

Monitor Publications Limited, a Nation Media Group Company is Uganda’s most influential media house, operating The Daily Monitor and Sunday Monitor newspapers, 93.3KFM, 90.4 Dembe FM, Nation Couriers and the Monitor Business Directory.

Job Summary: The Regional Sales Executives will be responsible for ensuring market penetration in the given territory in order to generate revenue and achieve the business targets.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

• Offer support to the field sales representatives in terms of paper availability and shelf life as well as market penetration in the given territory
• Conduct vendor supervision, vendor placement /vendor positioning to maximize sales
• Vendor intimacy /relationships and conflict resolution among vendors and agents
• Vendor Top ups during peak hours of selling papers and also determine stock levels at both agent and vendor level
• Recommend both the sales rep as well as the distribution manager on the market feedback on the product Advise the department on the issues that concern vendors and agents majorly sales related
• Enforce record keeping among agents and vendors Product merchandising on all our stands and supermarkets in the allocated region/market
• Enforce paper display at least 70% among vendors Market intelligence majorly on the competition
• Perform any other duties as assigned by the designated Regional Sales Representatives.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The Regional Sales Executive should ideally hold a diploma and or a bachelor’s degree in any business-related course or equivalent
• Basic business Computer literacy skills a requirement
• A minimum of two years' working experience in a sales related field.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Results-oriented
• Ability to build strong relationships
• Good planning and organizing skills

How to Apply:

All potential job suitors with a desire to work in one of Uganda’s leading Media Houses, Monitor Publications should send their applications to the regional centres with detailed CVs and academic documents with a daytime telephone number to: The Resourcing and Talent Management Specialist, Monitor Publications Ltd. P.O. Box 12141, Kampala, Uganda. Or you can send an email to resourcing@ug.nationmedia.com: Please include the title of the position applied for in the subject line.

NB: Please Note that only short listed candidates will be contacted.

Deadline: 5^th February 2014