Sales Support Executive - Johannesburg, South Africa - Givaudan

Givaudan

Verified Company

Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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Step into our world of creativity and joy

Sales Support Executive

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There's much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.
Sales Support Executive
Your next Position?
Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There's much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,800 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

Support Executive - Your future Position?

As a member of the Commercial Team, you will collaborate closely with the Area Sales Manager and two Key Account Managers. Your primary responsibility will involve providing valuable backend support to bolster the efforts of the commercial team.

Administrative Tasks:

Maintain accurate and uptodate customer records and sales documentation.
Coordination and execution on sample receipt & delivery (courier)
Manage and update the customer project system
Follow through on essential tasks and actions from the Key Account Manager's customer meetings.
You will be the backup and admin for the Key Account Manager.
You will be liaising with the relevant persons to ensure that any actions required are taken and then followed through to completion.
You will be liaising with inter departments (Regulatory, Customer Care, Technical, Pricing team and system Powerusers) on a daily basis to action the tasks.
You will Maintain and Update the Customer portfolio database
Management and submission of key documentation for the customer within the internal systems
Become the Key/super user of Givaudan systems
Follow up on and update projects & general requests
Track credit management queries
Assist with compiling and submitting the Forecast information from the customer

Sales Support:

Assist in submitting and preparing monthly sales reports
Coordinate with internal teams to ensure timely and accurate order processing.
Monitor and report on sales performance metrics.
Contribute to the development of sales team
You will participate in flavour training and tasting sessions.
You will be responsible for project management, pricing, data management and general commercial responsibilities.
Therefore, systematic, organized and conscientious abilities are essential.
Manage customer queries and internal coordination with multifunctional teams (both locally & globally).
Ability to work both independently and proactively are key.

Pricing:

Pricing coordination with the Givaudan pricing teams (regional)
Update customer price lists and respond to price queries & quotation requests
Responsible for the maintenance of all pricing files according to portfolio

Customer Engagement:

Assist in managing and maintaining relationships with customers
Respond to customer inquiries promptly and professionally.
Provide exceptional customer service and act as a liaison between customer/Key Account Manager and the teams within the business
Management, initiation and tracking on customer projects via Givaudan Project system
Responsible for communication and coordination on the project to the customer teams and internal teams
Manage customer project sample requests from Sampling and coordinate with the Technical teams

You?

Are you someone who wants to grow and shape your world? Who excels being in a culture where you are part of a creative team environment? Who wants to collaborate with teams who are as passionate as you are? Then join us and impact your world.

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