Sales Operations Manager
Premium Ad Sales/Marketing - Other Sales/Marketing Eastern Cape FULL TIME Job Summary A leading FMCG distributor operating in the nicotine and vaping category across Southern Africa is looking for an experienced Sales Operations Manager with strong experience in hands-on FMCG field execution to join their team. This deliberately hands-on role exists to ensure execution happens in the field every day, across all three regions (Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, and Johannesburg). The successful candidate will personally get into stores, depots, and trucks across these regions to find where execution is breaking down, fix it at the source, and build simple systems to make the fix stick. Responsibilities: * Own execution standards nationally: call coverage, distribution, ranging, shelf compliance, and promotional execution. * Build and implement a practical national execution scorecard. * Run regular in-field audits personally across all three regions. * Identify execution breakdowns and fix them directly with the people responsible. * Close the loop on every issue found with a fix, an owner, and a follow-up date. * Set and run the national operating rhythm: weekly execution reviews, daily activity checks, and non-negotiable reporting deadlines. * Hold Regional Sales Managers and reps accountable to execution standards in partnership with the National Sales Manager. * Identify and fix process and systems gaps (e.g., CRM discipline, call planning, order-to-cash friction). * Produce a weekly national execution report tracking compliance and remediation. Requirements:…
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