Market Development Representative South Coast (New Position)
- Minimum qualification
- Certificate / N-level / trade
- Closing date
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In brief
**Overview** The Beverage Company is seeking a Market Development Representative for a new position based in Pietermaritzburg, focused on the South Coast. The role's primary purpose is to directly develop informal retail outlets such as spaza shops, mini-supermarkets, and tuckshops on behalf of BevCo. The successful candidate will be accountable for the operation of their own work area, or as part of a team, ensuring quality, standards, and outputs within defined routines and policies. This position requires intimate knowledge of the specified geography, including informal retail dynamics and outlets, to align with BevCo's strategic growth objectives for the area. **What you will do** Key responsibilities and outputs include: * Actively engaging with and opening relationships with outlets on behalf of BevCo against set call rate and conversion targets, effectively 'seeding' BevCo's portfolio into a defined area and large channel of informal retailers. * Building and retaining an active base of informal retail clients, constantly servicing that base weekly/monthly. * Facilitating informal retailers to direct BevCo purchases from local wholesalers, bulk breakers, and/or distributors. * Ensuring company assets (e.g., refrigeration, signage) are managed per BevCo governance requirements. * Actively supporting sales and distribution targets into informal retail, driving 'pull' from local wholesalers, bulk breakers, and distributors for the area. * Assisting in the execution of the marketing plan for the area as required, including activations, promotions, fridges, and Point of Sale Material (POSM). * Ensuring BevCo merchandising and pricing compliance standards are sustained in conjunction with the GT representative, as relevant. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * Grade 12 / Matric / NQF level 4. * Up to 2 years' experience in Operational Execution FMCG, with experience in sales. * Basic knowledge of PC, or potential to acquire it. **Who should apply** The ideal candidate profile, based on the description, includes individuals who demonstrate: * **Customer Perspective Communication:** Engaging in routine communication with customers or clients. * **Problem Solving:** Proactive identification of concrete and procedural problems, troubleshooting, applying solutions in line with guidelines, and escalating more complex problems to superiors with required information. * **Relationships Maintained:** Building and sustaining relationships with others outside of their own work area but inside the organization. * **Negotiation:** Able to recognise situations requiring negotiation, listen attentively to opposition, present facts tactfully on a "need to know basis" for successful outcomes, refer to presented facts to strengthen arguments, and possess necessary interpersonal skills. * **Customer Relations:** Asking questions to identify customer needs, meeting personal commitments on time, taking responsibilities seriously, consistently meeting client expectations for quality, service, and professionalism, monitoring delivery for good service, showing a strong commitment to exceeding customer expectations, owning responsibility for mistakes, apologising, and making suitable changes. * **Planning and Organising:** Managing time effectively, ensuring task completion under stressful deadlines, prioritising activities and resources, evaluating progress, and making appropriate adjustments to plans. * **Knowledge of Business:** Following a systematic, multi-source learning regimen to stay current, describing the impact on their functional area and company results, demonstrating knowledge of the customer's business, and using business understanding to make sound decisions. * **Legal and Ethical Conduct:** Keeping current with laws and company policies governing work activities, seeking counsel before acting, conforming to standards, staying abreast of professional changes, acting ethically, and taking action to enforce requirements and expose violations. **Deadline** 8th October, 2026 **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/market-development-representative-south-coast-new-position-the-beverage-company Source: myjobmag
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