Description

Job Title: Sales Executive: Gauteng

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About the Functions:

Our Sales team love building relationships, connecting with customers to sell our much-loved brands in new and vibrant markets where they can thrive. They help sell our iconic brands across 180 countries every year.

We're operating across different markets, channels, and areas of expertise. Using your curiosity and passion, you'll make the most of consumer insight and digital platforms, reaching new customers, markets, and celebrations to help us achieve our growth potential. We'll support your learning and growth as you develop your career with us and work with people across our business to realise your fullest potential.

About the role:

• Analysts are individual contributors
• Requires conceptual knowledge in own area of expertise; develops practical experience
• Understands key business drivers; uses this understanding to accomplish own work
• No supervisory responsibilities but may provide guidance to new analysts/associates
• Solves standard problems by identifying solutions based on standard practices
• Impacts quality of own work; works within guidelines and policies
• Explains information to others in straightforward situations

Field Sales Job Family Description:
Roles in this job family work to sales performance targets. They are typically selling to and supporting customers who sell directly to the consumers or resellers/third party partners who sell directly to the customers within a given territory. Sales can occur in a wide range of settings including premium venues, and therefore some roles within this job family require a curated knowledge or Diageo's most prestigious reserve brands portfolio.

Role Responsibilities:

Qualifications

• Driver's license

• 3-year diploma/degree will be an added advantage

Experience

• 2-3 years sales experience essential, preferably in the FMCGG/beverage industry

Key Skills

• Brand and Category Knowledge (Customer)

• Customer Understanding

• Shopper Understanding and Insights

• Outlet Segmentation

• Joint Customer Planning

• Plan and Develop Executional Standards

Diversity statement:

Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.

We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.

Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.

Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.