LESSO Ethiopia is seeking qualified and competent applicants to fill the following positions:
1. Junior Site Sales Engineer
Job Summary:
- Provides technical and engineering information about products, services, or equipment.
- Identifies potential customers and organizes sales call schedules.
- Maintains extensive knowledge of the company’s products and assists in closing sales where technical expertise is required.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Prepares technical presentations to explain the company’s products to customers.
- Works closely with customers and engineers to ensure products meet system requirements.
- Collaborates with sales teams to understand customer requirements and provide sales support.
- Researches, develops, and modifies products to meet customer needs.
- Assists customers with product issues and recommends improvements.
- Collects customer feedback to develop new sales and marketing strategies.
- Identifies areas for improvement and communicates issues with the sales department.
- Secures orders, ensures product specifications, and ensures product delivery.
Department: Marketing and Sales Department
Reports To: Marketing and Sales Division Head
Required No.: 03
Skill and Educational Background:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business Management, or Water Supply and Sanitary Engineering.
- Experience: 2 years, with some background in construction work.
- Computer skills.
- Strong technical and operational abilities.
- Good written and verbal communication.
- Team-oriented with strong public relations skills.
- Strong numerical, analytical, and presentation abilities.
2. Export Sales Officer
Job Summary:
- Sells the company’s products to international clients.
- Presents products to potential buyers through various communication channels.
- Analyzes market dynamics and customer needs to provide solutions and integrate the company’s products.
- Follows up on orders with warehouse, operations teams, transport companies, and forwarders.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develops and implements market development plans for products in defined areas.
- Communicates with external potential customers to support and increase sales volume.
- Provides leadership to customer service, planning, and logistics teams to ensure customers receive appropriate shipments.
- Works with international agents attending trade shows and conferences.
- Investigates new sales opportunities and actively solicits business from potential customers.
- Negotiates export rates and services to reduce operating costs and increase profitability.
- Responds promptly to customer complaints and seeks profitable solutions.
- Maintains records of export details to ensure compliance with government policies and transportation laws.
Department: Marketing and Sales Department
Reports To: Marketing and Sales Head
Required No.: 02
Skill and Educational Background:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing or Business Management.
- Experience: 5 years in export sales and business organizations.
- Excellent negotiation skills.
- Team-oriented with strong public relations skills.
- Proficiency in one of the top business languages.
- Good written and verbal communication.
- Strong technical and operational skills.
- Strong numerical and analytical abilities.
- Computer skills.
3. Showroom Sales Officer
Job Summary:
- Works closely with customers, contractors, and engineers in providing the company’s products.
- Provides expert product knowledge, selection support, and customer service.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Works with customers or their representatives in planning and product selection.
- Provides consultative sales and interpersonal skills.
- Greets and meets visitors in the showroom, understands their needs, makes presentations, and advises on products and solutions.
- Prepares quotations according to customer needs and specifications, conducts and handles payments.
- Uses appropriate office technologies and computers to process orders and maintain communication with contacts.
- Maintains the showroom professionally and follows company policies and procedures.
- Follows sales terms and conditions in line with company policy.
- Reports to the Marketing and Sales Head.
Department: Marketing and Sales Department
Reports To: Marketing and Sales Head
Required No.: 03
Skill and Educational Background:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business Management, or Sanitary/Water/Civil Engineering.
- Experience: 4/2 years in sales works in business organizations.
- Computer skills.
- Good written and verbal communication.
- Strong technical and operational skills.
- Team-oriented with strong public relations skills.
- Strong numerical, analytical, and presentation abilities.
4. Marketing and Sales Division Head
Job Summary:
- Plans, organizes, leads, controls, evaluates, and reports marketing and sales activities to execute strategies maximizing market share and company positioning.
- Conducts research and creates plans and prospects for marketing.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Plans and directs the company’s sales and marketing policies, goals, and initiatives.
- Develops and oversees sales and marketing functions to ensure strategies are aligned to achieve sales and brand objectives.
- Promotes existing brands and introduces new products to the market.
- Conducts research and develops marketing opportunities and plans.
- Gathers, investigates, and summarizes market data and trends.
- Develops and conducts sales campaigns and marketing promotional plans.
- Maintains relationships with customers, understands their needs, and identifies new marketing opportunities.
- Organizes the sales and marketing team to reach potential customers creatively.
- Ensures timely and professional execution of all quotes.
- Conducts site inspections and familiarization visits to potential areas.
- Monitors profiles of major clients in different media platforms and ensures appropriate responses are posted.
Department: Marketing and Sales Department
Reports to: Marketing and Sales Department Manager
Required No.: 01
Skill and Educational Background:
- MA/BA in Marketing Management or Business Management.
- Experience: 4/6 years, with 2 years of middle-level managerial experience in the marketing field in business organizations.
- Strong in people management, operations, and technology.
- Excellent verbal and writing communication.
- Inventive in addressing issues.
- Flexible, upbeat, and a good team member.
- High standards of integrity and confidence.
Location: Head Office
Application Deadline: March 25, 2024
Application Process:
Interested applicants who fulfill the above requirements are invited to apply with non-returnable copies of supporting documents within 10 days in person or as a single PDF file via email to hrlessoethiopia@gmail.com.
Address: Afework Building, 8th floor, located around Urael, besides Bambis