Technical Sales Representative

Technical Sales Representative required in Cape Town.

Are you skilled at forging strong connections with Architects, Interior Designers, Electrical Contractors, Commercial Designers, and Developers?

Our client, a leader in hardware, testing tools, and LED solutions, is seeking a Specialist to promote their premium products across residential and commercial projects.

You’ll build lasting relationships with key industry players, keeping the brand top-of-mind at the specification stage and adding value to a driven, results-focused sales team.

• Matric
• Experience with in the Warehouse and Retail industry
• MS Office and Excel experience essential
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organisation skills
• Self-driven
• Initiative and deadline driven with excellent planning and organisational skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• Successfully adapts to changing demands and conditions
• High attention to detail, enthusiastic
• Committed and reliable

• Promoting and specifying company products into housing and commercial Developments including the Innovative LED Automation through architects and interior designers.
• This will include company products such as lamps, occupancy sensors and floodlights that can be used in the development.
• Promoting and specifying company products into housing and commercial developments, including the Innovative LED Lighting Automation through electrical consultant engineers.
• Refer the responsible Sales Representative to the electrical consultant engineers and commercial developers if relevant
• Updating and maintaining the Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and Northwest project register.
• Go through Specifying Techniques and providing the allocated person(s) with the National register.
• This includes listing prospective new developments, allocating developments to the respective Sales Representatives to attend to as well as removing completed won or lost projects.
• Ensuring that the Relevant Sales Representative(s) is/are aware when a project has been specified so that the relevant Sales Representative(s) can contact and/or follow up with client(s) such as electrical contractors and the wholesaler that he/she purchases items from, in order to ensure that the stock is ordered in time by the relevant Wholesaler.
• Maintaining relationships with architects and electrical consultant engineers.
• Provide training to the above-mentioned parties on a regular basis.
• Adding and updating architect and electrical engineers’ details on the company’s CRM platform.
• Completing daily call reports in the company’s CRM platform.
• Assist Sales Representatives at product shows at wholesalers when needed.
• Assisting in the employer’s quarterly stock takes; or at any given time at the employer’s discretion as may be directed from time to time.
• And any other tasks necessary for the conduct of the employer’s business