Permanent
Sales Manager
Virgin Active South Africa (Pty) Ltd
East London, Eastern Cape
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About this role
Employer: Virgin Active South Africa (Pty) Ltd
Your Purpose...
* To make exercise irresistible
* To, on a monthly basis, deliver club sales results in line with, or exceeding, budget.
* To create and maintain high performing sales team, to achieve our customer acquisition and revenue growth targets. This means the role will be responsible for maximizing our sales team
* potential through, couching, and adjusting the sales plans as needed, to ensure the desired result is achieved.
Your Duties and Responsibilities...
* To achieve growth and consistently achieve on sales targets by successfully leading the sales team.
* Achieve sales objectives by making recommendations to sales plans and reviews, preparing, and completing action plans for the sales team, and coaching the team for successful delivery.
* Implementing customer-service standards; resolving queries; completing audits; identifying trends and implementing change, as needed.
* Maintain and develop a high-performance sales team with the focus on accomplishing sales objectives by leading, developing, couching, and mentoring; communication job expectations; planning, monitoring, and reviewing job contributions; developing and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures, etc.
* Performing administrative and all management functions in the line with daily, monthly, and quarterly deadlines.
* Performing manager on duty (MOD) duties (Fitness and Fitness Plus only, other club types as required)
* Selling memberships to achieve the set monthly budget and sales goals.
* Completing all administrative procedures as required by the company.
* Will need to proactively identify opportunities, and market Virgin Active memberships to the community surrounding the clubs and / or corporate organisations.
* Will be required to actively follow up on leads provided in club and surrounds Maintain the sprint backlogs with the Scrum teams.
* Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of projects.
Our Minimum Requirements...We can't live without...
* Matric Certificate
* Relevant tertiary qualification advantageous
* At least 2 years’ experience within a sales management role, i.e., managing a sales team.
* At least 4 years’ previous experience within the sales environment (similar industry preferable)/ sales consultant role
* Must be able to show a proven, successful track record in a solution sale environment.
* Must be highly numerate, financially astute and be able to understand budgeting processes.
* Must have proven knowledge of Financial reports, e.g., P&L
* Excellent analytical and organizational skills
* Must know how to negotiate and close deals under pressure.
* Successfully completed Pro – active Sales Manager training (Internal Candidates)
We’d like you to have…
* Adaptability (must be able to adapt to a fast paced, changing environment)
* Be curious (must be willing to succeed, seek opportunities to learn and grow)
* Have a winning mentality (must be willing to go over and above to achieve success)
* Must be motivated to achieve success.
* A commitment to making a difference in people’s lives.
* A Growth mindset
* The ability to work independently.
* Trustworthiness (must always act in doing the right thing)
* A drive to create moments of magic for our members.
* The ability to make decisions and take ownership and responsibility for the decision.
* Action orientation
We’d love you to have…
* Wellness knowledge, beyond the health club
* The ability to make quick and bold decisions.
* The ability to be agile.
* The ability to be collaborative.
* High Interpersonal skills (EQ)