Responsibilities:

• Manage smooth regional office operations.
• Periodically conduct a business plan and review with customers.
• Conduct regional sales promotion activities within the assigned budget.
• Manage, allocate and monitor TTS spending according to the regional budget.
• Check and approve field sales incentives to ensure correctness and eligibility.
• Allocate and cascade the regional sales target to each salesperson on an individual basis.
• Ensure prompt payment from customers and take necessary actions to minimize bad debts.
• Design the territory plan and monitor route and itinerary efficiency for sales force in the assigned region.
• Reinforce the effective and efficient field sales execution to deliver the Field Management Best Practices (FMBP).
• Actively participate within ICP process, support definition of Field Sales Strategy to implement Channel Strategy and Customer Plan
• Follow up the sales figures against the set sales target on daily and monthly bases; provide recommendation for necessary actions.
• Ensure full compliance to the WHO-Code, the company's policies and Instructions and local legislation in the context of delivering objectives by self/entire Team.
• Ensure good performance of the sales force in field operations in terms of sell-out, distribution, product merchandising and sales call effectiveness and productivity.
• Perform distributor management including recruitment, selection, manage and review, and termination together with Account Manager and Channel Development Team.
• Manage Sales Force (food service) and Distributors in the assigned region to achieve commercial objectives, including sales target, distribution, merchandising, etc.
• Monitor POP implementation by salesforce to ensure that it is in line with the commercial plans (Brand/Channel/Customer Strategies) mainly via meeting, market visit, auditing, etc.
• Collaborate with peer RSMs to share best practices within Field Sales, Distributor Management etc., liaise with cross functional teams to drive regional Field Sales related initiatives.
• Perform people development role for the specific region through Performance Management, providing input for career planning and development, and on-the-job coaching for field sales force.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, Business Administration or related field; with at least 2 years' experience in a Regional Sales Manager position or 4 years of experience in an Area Sales Manager position.
• Good knowledge of channel structure and opportunities in the region
• Understand all sales functions i.e., Trade Marketing, Customer, Field Sales
• Strong experience in Team and Field Sales Management, Distributor Management Best Practice, Market Intelligence and Channel/Shopper Trends