Zonal Sales Manager - Agriculture Products - South

Job Opening for ZSM-South- TN, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka - Agriculture products

- Full responsibility for the sales in the assigned states.

- Supervise and manage the operational business and ensure the achievement of the defined targets including the yearly sales budget.

- Responsibility for the sales planning and the outstanding management.

- Manage K+S' growth and expansion within all assigned states.

- Develop a roadmap for future growth option, align with the management and implement this roadmap.

- Leading all sales teams on a day-to-day business by creating an excellent interpersonal relationship.

- Develop and grow the HR set-up in the respective states. Responsibility on hiring/replacing within the sales team.

- Establish K+S as a well-known brand in the water-soluble fertilizer segment all over India

Key Requirements:

- Minimum 8 to 10 years' experience in Agricultural input sector, preferably fertilizer

- Experience in leading people in different hierarchical set-up

- Currently holding a similar position or a lower position e.g., as State Manager

- Bachelor/master's degree in agriculture, MBA

- Fluent in English, Hindi and min one more local language

- Willingness to travel intensively in India, Min 75%

- Self-Motivated and should be able to plan and execute business strategies for growth

- Strategic thinking combined with an operational excellence in the everyday tasks

- Strong commercial spirit and sales orientation

- Excellent leadership and communication skills, being able to motivate and train the staff to bring the organization to the next level.

- Creative thinking, solution provider and result oriented

- Ability to cope with last minute changes and requests, crisis

- Very good skills with MS Office (Word, Power Point and Excel)