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23/07 Shiv Bora
HR at Bonito Designs

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Bonito Designs - Manager - Sales (7-12 yrs)

Bangalore Job Code: 954372

Role : Sales Manager

Experience : 7 to 12 years

Sales Manager responsibilities include developing key growth sales strategies, tactics and action plans. Successful execution of these strategies is required to achieve your financial targets. Sales Manager duties will include hitting annual targets, building relationships and understanding customer trends. The Sales Manager has the primary role of leading the sales department, overseeing the activities of the junior and senior professionals and monitoring performance.

He/She defines and communicates the business's KPIs and targets to junior sales personnel on a regular basis, analyses patterns in consumer and market behavior, and subsequently defines data-driven action strategies in order to consistently optimize the business's commercial performance. 


 The role of Sales Manager is a data-driven role that requires commercial acumen and a deep understanding of the consumer base, the competitive market, and an ability to analyze sales department performance. This role is an integral part of the business and involves the management of external partners and collaborations with numerous internal departments.

Roles and Responsibilities :

- Own and hit/exceed annual sales targets within assigned territory and accounts

- Develop and execute strategic plan to achieve sales targets and expand our customer base

- Build and maintain strong, long-lasting customer relationships

- Partner with customers/builders to understand their business needs and objectives

- Effectively communicate the value proposition through proposals and presentations

- Understand category-specific landscapes and trends

- Reporting on forces that shift tactical budgets and strategic direction of accounts requirements

- Proven sales executive experience, meeting or exceeding targets

- Previous experience as a sales executive, sales manager or sales and marketing director

- Ability to communicate, present and influence all levels of the organization, including executive and C-level

- Proven ability to drive the sales process from plan to close

- Proven ability to articulate the distinct aspects of products and services

- Proven ability to position products against competitors

- Demonstrable experience as a sales manager, developing client-focused, differentiated and achievable solutions

- Excellent listening, negotiation and presentation skills

- Excellent verbal and written communications skills

Competencies :


- Sales Manager should have worked within a fast-paced and dynamic business environment, preferably working in the position of a Sales Manager. 


- The candidate must also have a proven and successful ability to lead a group of sales personnel towards growth in enhanced sales volumes and enhanced revenue generation, while displaying exceptional leadership skills and confidence. 


- A suitable candidate will also have experience evaluating product/market situations and analyzing raw data and information, transforming it into actionable sales strategies and approaches.

Analytical Skills :

- A candidate for this position must also have a keen interest in conducting research and data-driven insights coupled without standing planning & analytical capabilities. The candidate will have an in-depth knowledge of the business's product as well as standard strategic, analytical, and marketing concepts. 


- A suitable candidate for this position will also have a deep understanding of the business's marketplace models as well as the opportunities and limitations that come along with it.

Interpersonal Skills :

- The Sales Manager will possess certain interpersonal skills that will encourage openness and trust both internally and externally. She/he will be self-motivated, have a strong entrepreneurial spirit, be adaptable to business growth fluctuations, work comfortably and effortlessly in group settings, be persuasive and charismatic individual, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and work well under the pressure of stringent deadlines. He/she will also demonstrate calmness under stressful situations and in uncertainty, inspiring the same in his/her team.

Leadership/People Skills :

- A candidate for this position needs to demonstrate exceptional leadership skills, portraying an ability to move and inspire a large group in a unified direction and vision. Being a representative of the business, he/she must also be a likable and approachable individual who is able to form strong and long-lasting relationships both internally and externally on behalf of the business.

Collaboration :

The position of Sales Manager is also highly collaborative and, as such, teams up with the product development departments in creating product intelligence, for example, product/brand adjacency, affinities, display rules, conducting trend analysis, and ensuring that these are aligned to support and drive sales and conversion. 


In this collaboration, he/she also monitors the development of the business's product/service from its conceptualization through to its testing and launch and, therefore, carefully understands the product/service whose sales. he/she is supposed to spearhead, making it easy to tailor unique strategies around that product/service.


  The Sales Manager also works closely with the analytics department in processing relevant data and information, translating it into actionable strategies that drive sales and lead to achievement of targets.


- He/she similarly partners with the senior sales management for administrative purposes, for example, the development of plans, strategies, structure, budget, vision, and establishment of goals for the department.

Knowledge/Relationships/Opportunity :

- The Sales Manager is also tasked with managing key relationships on behalf of the business.


- The Sales Manager builds strong relationships with external partners and consumers and regularly interacts with them by attending sales workshops, seminars and hosting events, hosting sales events for the business, playing an active role in industry organizations and so forth. 


- These efforts establish the business as a market and thought leader and open avenues for identification of potential opportunities for sales and revenue generation. 


- In this capacity, the Sales Manager also conducts regular and consistent research on the latest market best practices and trends in order to constantly keep the business at par or even ahead of other players and driving greater sales resulting from securing a great market share.

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