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Marketing Assistant
The position holder will be responsible for recruiting of new Members, aggressively approaching potential customers with the aim of winning new business and cross-selling to existing customers. He / She shall be responsible for planning and implementing sales and marketing initiatives to realize set targets in membership growth, maximizing sales profitability, selling of the Sacco’s products and/or related services and activating dormant accounts.
Duties And Responsibilities:
- Recruiting new members and following up to ensure they don’t fall into dormancy both individual and corporates.
- Cross selling of Sacco products as per the set targets.
- Support customer service and work closely with other departments on the execution of service delivery
- Responsible for finding new leads, setting meetings, following up on presentations made and closing sales deals.
- Build relationships with existing referral sources and cultivate new referral sources both internally and externally.
- Work closely with the marketing team in arranging for events/promotions for new acquisition of customers.
- Attend relevant Sacco exhibitions and meetings to recruit members.
- Regularly provide feedback to the management on the acceptance of the products in the market and suggest changes that could provide energy to the sales efforts.
- Assist in improving the visibility and brand image of the company.
Qualifications & Experience
- Diploma in Sales & Marketing, Co-operative Management or a business-related course from a recognized institution.
- Customer Care training is an added advantage
- A minimum of 2 years relevant experience in a busy marketing environment
- Prior experience working in the cooperative movement will be an added advantage
Key Competences:
- Passionate customer advocacy.
- Deep understanding of changing market dynamics.
- Motivation for sales.
- Ability to uphold professionalism.
- Microsoft Office proficiency.
- Outstanding communication, interpersonal and negotiation skill
- Superb analytical skills.
- The terms of employment will be on a 1 year fixed term contract on commission based.
Method of Application
Candidates who meet the minimum requirements are invited to send their detailed CV including 3 referees to saccocommittee@Safaricom.co.ke by 20th November 2023 use the job title as the email subject. You are also required to fill and submit the attached google form https://bitly.ws/ZWoi. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted