General Trade Sales Manager

Our client is a leading global FMCG company in the food & beverages category, responsible for sales and marketing their own branded products in all channels across the MENA & Levant regions.

Due to aggressive growth in the region they are now looking to recruit a General Trade Sales Development Manager to be responsible for developing and leading the General Trade (Impulse, wholesale, new channels) strategy and development plans across Oman.

Key Accountabilities will include:

• Leading go to market strategy

• Own the route to market plan for Impulse, wholesale and new channels with possibility of Sub Distributor extensions

• Owning plans to win in store with impulse, wholesale and new channels

• Optimize journey plans in accordance with the route to market strategy

• Own the strategy for winning in wholesale

• Work closely with regional managers to optimize plans as per regional requirement

• Lead in-store plans to ensure complete dominance across stores

• Achievement of sales and in-store presence objectives

• Develop local tactical plans to support regional managers

• Own and track asset deployment and execution in close collaboration with regional managers

• Lead quarterly by region performance reviews to provide adequate by region support

• Monitor market conditions and competitive environment and make recommendations in order to capture new business opportunities

• University degree in Business administration or respective studies

• 5 years General Trade sales experience in an FMCG MNC

• Extensive experience in working with key regional retailers

• Experience in new business development

• Strong analytical thinking

• Team player & demonstrate leadership

• Strong written and oral communication skills and presentation skills

• Skilled in Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point

• Well-structured, focused & setting clear priorities

• Ability to think strategically and creatively

• Fluent in English

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