Job Description

Role & responsibilities

Drive the primary and secondary sales volume in South Chennai & Pondicherry for General Trade for Baby Care, Feminine Care and Wellness Care product categories.

Operational Role & Responsibilities

- Deliver primary and secondary sales target as per Annual Operating Plan in the assigned territory
- Timely Tracking & Monitoring performance of Channel partners and Sales team to identify deviation and plan accordingly for risk mitigation.
- Responsible for developing and expanding Sales & Profitability of the company in the assigned region.
- Add recent accounts, retail partners for increasing numeric reach and weighted reach.
- Stock Management at depots & Distributors/Super Stockist/Sub-Stockist, Credit Control, Damage/Expiry Control for complete SKU and product range availability.
- Planning and implementation of sales promotional activities in the territory in collaboration with Marketing team.
- Identify and Weed out small and high impact issues faced by channel partners.
- Cultivate and maintain effective business relationships with executive decision makers in large accounts.
- Reviewing visibility of product range at retail counters.
- Analyse and control expenditures of assigned area to conform to budgetary requirements.




- Utilising retail & distribution platforms to improve efficiency and reduce distribution costs; monitoring the process flow in order to ensure the operational efficiency through dealers and distributors.

Strategic Role & Responsibilities:

- Business planning, forecasting and delivery of short term & long terms objectives (volume/ revenue/ growth/ systems & processes) at geography level and account level and product level.
- Guiding the team towards distributor appointment in line with desired business objectives and maintaining a robust and efficient Channel Partner network, through effective engagement and measures around healthy ROI management in line with defined business objectives/ processes.
- Driving sales team efficiency through regular and effective training, mentoring and coaching of sales team.
- Identification of brand building/ BTL activation opportunities and coordinating with relevant stakeholders (sales team/ marketing team/ external agencies) for timely and effective execution of these activities in line with business objectives/ priorities
- Close monitoring of the competitors activities and preparing observation reports in order to facilitate the Brand Team to compete with competition.

📌 Area Sales Manager - South Chennai
🏢 Desirous Global Consulting
📍 Chennai