Employer: Bidvest Prestige ROLE PURPOSE To contribute to the process of refining and enhancing, on an ongoing basis, the current and future sales and marketing strategy. MAIN OUTPUTS Sales: * Actively search, pursue and engage potential clients * Knowledge of existing contracts and weekly meetings with Regions General Manager & Operations Manager * Manage the compilation, and where necessary draft, high quality proposals, bids and tender responses * Follow-up and survey leads generated through various channels and cold calling * Ensure tenders and bids are responded to in a professional, timely and compliant manner. * Engage and manage strategic suppliers who are providing solution and commercial content for proposals, bids and tender responses * Identify weaknesses in sales process and address * Follow-up on cancelled contracts * Implement and manage strategic initiatives to ensure that annual growth targets are met and ideally exceeded to increase the company’s market share * Achieve Monthly Sales Budgets by implementing and maintaining a marketing and sales strategy. Marketing: * Identifying new growth opportunities by market segments * Using the full marketing mix for the company’s marketing communications * Promote sister companies – Steiner Hygiene, TopTurf, etc. Reporting: * Provide a comprehensive sales and marketing report on a weekly and monthly basis QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS The Applicant must meet the following requirements: * Bachelor’s Degree/National Diploma in Sales/Business Development/Marketing * Matric (Senior Certificate) * Valid Driver’s License * Min 3 Years’ Solid Experience In Business Development & Best Practices within the Sales Environment * Strong Sales & Marketing Knowledge (Ideally In The Services Industry) * MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Outlook FUNDAMENTAL COMPETENCIES * Ability & Desire To Sell * Result Oriented * Attention To Detail * Stress Tolerant * Excellent Written Communication * Team Leadership * People & Task Orientated * Assertiveness * Action Orientated * Customer/Client Focused * Negotiation Skills * Interactive Reasoning * Planning & Scheduling * Teamwork * Relationship Building * Good Listening Skills * Excellent Oral Communication * Creative & Innovative