Sales Hunter - Cape Town, South Africa - Staff Unlimited Recruitment

Description

Job description:

• Prospecting for new leads
• Performing demonstrations for customers and teaching them how to use the company's products or services.
• Overcoming objections and negotiating with leads
• Collecting the contact details of leads and sharing them with other sales representatives where appropriate
• Maintaining a database of prospective clients interested in the company's products or services identifying new trends and technologies that affect the sale of goods and services.
• Selling and promoting goods and services
• Updating customer information on Skynamo
• Log calls on Skynamo as per required standard.
• Liaise with internal support to email quotations to customers.
• Maintaining customer contracts and any other relevant information on Skynamo
• Complete new business and lost business reports and submit to manager on monthly basis as well as any other reporting required.

Critical skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication fluent in both English and Afrikaans.
• Being persuasive to have potential clients continue working with the company and convince them that they need the company's services and products.
• Persistence committing to finding new clients, to follow up with potential leads and move clients through the sales pipeline.
• Professionalism as the first contact point for new customers, to establish connections while being work-appropriate.
• The ability to research new opportunities to find leads.
• Be technology savvy by understanding how to use social media and other online tools to find prospects.
• Proficient in MS Office with excellent computer skills knowledge.
• Product and pricing knowledge.
• Creative
• Optimistic
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Ability to listen and interpret information accurately.
• Planning and organising skills.

Additional traits required:

• Go getter driven to write their own income.
• Able to take initiative to approach target market and discover opportunities rather than wait for customers to come to you.
• Being diligent and understanding the importance of setting personal objectives.
• Have the confidence to continue working even when you don't know where you may find your next lead and to interact with clients extensively.
• Be strategic by implementing actions that help generate leads.
• Be perceptive and inquisitive asking insightful and intelligent questions that consider the needs and conditions of their clients.
• Build a network with industry partners and suppliers.

Qualifications and Experience

• Matric
• Own reliable transport and valid driver licence is essential