# Striker | Nelspruit (Mbombela)

**Company**: Red Bull
**Location**: Mbombela, Mpumalanga
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Beverages

**Apply**: https://jobs.redbull.com/za-en/striker-nelspruit-mombela-ref32186g?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

As a Striker at Red Bull, you will be responsible for negotiating the elements of Red Bull Perfect Store within a set of Retail and Impulse accounts in a given geographical area. This includes ensuring availability, visibility, communication, and additional placements of Red Bull to enable maximum sales of all Red Bull products.

**Responsibilities**

- Effective coverage of all agreed outlets at optimum frequencies in a cost-effective manner

- Administration and development of designated area

- Completion of all calls allocated to individual territories

- Professional and respectful to colleagues, customers, and suppliers

- Maintenance and growth of Perfect Stores databases focusing on availability and distribution, pricing, visibility, placements, and messaging

- Building quality relationships through effective communication

- Influencing decision-makers through presenting compelling insights and commercial proposals

- Managing orders to ensure Red Bull's stock keeping units (SKUs) are in stock and on display at all times

- Ensuring that stock levels necessary to secure continuous availability of Red Bull products to the consumer in all covered outlets are maintained at all times

- Securing and improving the agreed in-store presence of the Red Bull brand

- Placement of POS – ensuring POS is correctly sited and up to date in all outlets

- Promotional Compliance – ensuring agreed promotions are in place and running from the first day

- Completing all necessary administrative tasks accurately and on time

- Implementation of Head Office agreements and ensuring their execution based on merchandising standards

**Requirements**

- Proven sales track record

- FMCG experience (branded or retail experience)

- Valid driver's license

- Ability to manage and cultivate good relationships

- Good selling skills: communication, negotiation, and objection handling skills

- Clear understanding of Off Premise channels (retail, impulse, non-traditional)

- Commercial awareness and basic understanding of commercial maths

- Basic knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and preferably mobile Field Force automation

**Travel Requirements**

- 90-100% travel

## Skills

### Required
- FMCG experience
- sales experience
- communication skills
- negotiation skills
- MS Office

### Nice to have
- Field Force automation
- commercial maths

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Source: [Apply at jobs.redbull.com](https://jobs.redbull.com/za-en/striker-nelspruit-mombela-ref32186g?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)