Sales & Marketing
Sell Canon South Africa hardware and solutions, with specific focus on Production Print, Wide format, Display graphics and Pro Print Solutions, and reach revenue quotas for the B2B direct channel.
Collaborate with teammates and maintain a positive and professional attitude fostering teamwork.
Achieve quota for number of daily and weekly sales activity with prospective customers and end users.
Actively work with your manager and team to improve the offering and value proposition to existing target markets and verticals
Develop, present, and implement plans to your manager to successfully attack new target markets and market verticals.
Business travel as appropriate, as approved by your manager to accomplish your assigned duties
The Professional Print Account Manager is responsible for ensuring that:
All the duties of the Professional Print Account Manager are completed as per the Job Description s.
Develop and implement business plans to attract and develop current and new clients and end users for the Canon South Africa direct channel.
Report back to the business on technical, financial, and procedural areas of the business that can be improved and developed to improve the direct offering of Canon South Africa.
They fully understand the product and solutions portfolio to their disposal and provide feedback to the business on further training needed to improve their own ability to sell these products and solution
Liaise with the relevant Canon internal resources with regards to best practices and sales strategies in market verticals
Work with the marketing department to develop marketing plans for new products and market verticals
Monitor and measure and report on issues, opportunities and development plans and achievements within agreed formats and timescales.
Develop and refine the strategy with regards to new business development.
Ensure that customer satisfaction levels are met
Contractual on boarding of new clients and ends users
Sales quotas are met as assigned.
Prepare and submit sales activity reports and sales forecasts as are requested required by your manager or Head of Sales.
Maintain all prospective customer data in the company database or other as defined by your manager and Director and use the information contained therein as the sole resource for prospective customer
Business Development Plans are reviewed and approved prior to implementation.
Developing a solid and trusting relationship between major key clients and company
Resolving key client issues and complaints
Developing a complete understanding of key account needs
Anticipating key account changes and improvements
Managing communications between key clients and internal teams
Managing account team assigned to each client
Strategic planning to improve client results
Negotiating contracts with the client and establishing a timeline of performance
Collaborating with the sales team to maximize profit by up-selling or cross-selling
Meeting all client needs and deliverables according to proposed timelines
Expanding relationships and bringing in new clients
What we ask
University or bachelor’s degree preferred
6 years directly related previous work experience
Sales experience in production print or office automation industry is preferred
6 years demonstrated sales experience selling complex service-oriented offerings via direct B2B
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