BACKGROUND:

EthioChicken is a leading distributor of chickens to rural farmers in Ethiopia. We are a rapidly growing Company that believes in investing in our employees and offers them opportunities for career advancement. Ethiochicken is an Ethiopian based company.

OUR VISION:

Our vision is to bring a chicken to every family in Ethiopia in 2021, and a chicken to every person in Ethiopia in the future, transforming the Ethiopian poultry industry, making it a model of inclusive growth.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develops specific plans to ensure revenue growth in all feed products
• Collaborates with feed business director and NFSM to develop sales strategies to improve feed market in all product lines.
• Accurately forecasts annual, quarterly, monthly and weekly revenues from feed sales.
• Accurately forecasts annual, quarterly, monthly and weekly feed sales volume.
• Develop feed sales plan based on feed market expansion.
• Plan how to achieve feed sales volume through prioritizing to make big achievement with minimum effort and shorter time.
• Work on promotion activities in the area with woreda coordinator, ASM and RSM.
• Assist or support feed dealers on feed market & knowledge gap on regular visiting and training.
• Support commercial farmers technically and train them on spot.
• Give technical recommendation during commercial farm visit.
• Supervise commercial farms and provide report on farm supervision to FRSM.

Sales activity

• Achieve sales volume of feed in the area.
• Increase feed dealers and sub feed distributors in the area.
• Work with zonal and woreda gov’t team to facilitate feed sale from feed dealers
• Manage feed sale areas.
• Update & communicates information on competitors’ products for pricing and product.
• Follow up feed dealers on all feed business activity.
• Locating and developing relationships with new feed customers.
• Strongly assess and feedback the result of company feed on end users.
• Handel the dealers feed price not exceeding to the Margin.
• Create market linkage between feed dealers and commercial farmers.
• Collect feed sample for lab test when any defect in the feed is reported.
• Work    with Ethiochicken wereda coordinators and DOC ASMS on recruiting feed dealers.
• Work with Ethiochicken wereda coordinators and DOC ASMS on creating linkage between feed dealer and commercial farmers.
• Provide update on poultry feed information and technical support to Ethiochicken wereda coordinators and DOC ASMS.

Team development

• Manage and motivate the feed dealers to achieve targets through support and close supervision and training.
• Particularly create good relationship and environment with related experts and government officials.
• Create good relationship and working environment with ASMS and wereda coordinators.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Interprets short- and long-term effects on feed sales strategies in operating profit.
• Holds regular meeting with feed dealers and commercial farmers.
• Reviews progress offered sales in the area.
• Make feed sales assessment result on weekly and monthly.

Government relation

• Develop good working relationship with key sector government officials and expertise.
• Represent the company on all sector related meeting and activities.
• Have updated government regulations policies and directive which affects our business.

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

• Exceeding volume growth targets
• Increased feed order size and feed dealers.
• Established strong and reliable feed dealers.
• Recruited, trained and deployed vibrant sales team who derive sales function
• Develop strong relationship with sector government structure which supports our business.
• Maintain compliance with all company policies and procedures.

Education

• Degree in Animal Science or Veterinary Medicine (DVM).

Work experience

• Fresh graduate (0 year)

Skills needed

• Fluency in Afan Oromo

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

Please title your application with subject line: - "Feed Area Sales Manager- Oromia" 

Only candidates meeting the required qualifications are invited to send their applications(Cover Letter) including a detailed CV through ethiojobs.net or                 

 e-mail: careers@ethiochicken.com

        Women are highly encouraged to apply.