Job Title: Sales Executive (2 Jobs)
Organisation: Steel and Tube Industries Ltd (STIL)
Duty Station: Mukono and Masaka, Uganda
About the Company:
Steel and Tube Industries Ltd is one of the largest steel manufacturers and suppliers of quality steel products in East Africa. Our Products include: Roof Products, Hollow Sections & Open Profiles, Smart Tanks, STIL Bars, Wire Products, etc.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Answer customers’ questions about products, prices, availability, product uses, and credit terms.
- Contact regular and prospective customers to demonstrate products, explain product features, and solicit orders.
- Estimate or quote prices by use of price list, credit or contract terms and delivery dates.
- Visit potential customers for new business by initiating market research studies and analyzing their findings.
- Provide customers with quotations, brochures
Secondary Responsibilities
- Negotiate the terms of a sales agreement and close sale with the customer through details of contracts and payments, and prepare sales contracts and order forms.
- Gather market and customer information and provide feedback on buying trends to the Business development manager
- Represent Steel and Tube Industries at trade exhibitions, events and demonstrations
- Identify new markets and business opportunities that can be exploited by Steel and Tube industries Limited.
- Record sales and send copies to the Business Development Manager by writing and submitting periodic reports to the Business Development Manager.
- Identify prospective customers by using business directories, following leads from existing clients, participating in organizations and clubs, and attending trade shows and conferences.
- Monitor market conditions, product innovations, and competitors’ products, prices, and sales.
- Recommend products to customers, based on customers’ needs and interests.
- Negotiate with retail merchants to improve product exposure such as shelf positioning and advertising.
- Obtain credit information about prospective customers. Keep accurate & relevant client information.
- Establish close working relationships with the stockists in order to gain high levels of stockist support and loyalty whilst enhancing understanding of the trading environment.
- To understand, Implement and maintain all ISO systems in the company.
- Perform any other duties as they may be assigned
Health, Safety and Environmental responsibilities and Ethics:
- Ensure cleanliness in and around the workplace.
- Enforce PPE usage by employees in the plant at all times.
- Guidance and on-the job training of workers especially new ones in good environmental maintenance and safer working procedures in order to reduce occupational accidents.
- Assist management to identify resources required to improve EHS in the company.
- Ensure good housekeeping in the plant i.e., immediate cleaning of coolants and oil spillages, emptying of waste bins, shift of scrap from respective workplace.
- Ensure proper use of waste bins and their availability at the designated respective locations in the plant
- Assist in taking corrective actions for any EHS deficiencies identified during audits or day to day observations
- Help casualties get immediate medical attention and also work closely with HR and systems coordinator during accidents/incident investigations
- Facilitate security of company staff and property.
- Promote health and safety at the workplace.
- Encourage teamwork for the purpose of a smooth and prosperous management
- Help create a culture and atmosphere of hard work and high personal integrity.
- Safeguard the company’s systems and Terms and Conditions of employment.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Qualifications: Degree in marketing and other related course
- Experience: 2 years plus
How to Apply:
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their applications accompanied with a detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV), photocopies of academic documents and certificates as one PDF folder via Email to: [email protected]
Deadline: 10th June 2025.
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