Recruitment Room Team
Supplier Growth Manager
Job Description
A vacancy exists for a Supplier Growth Manager within Kazang – Micro Merchant Division, Sales, in Western Cape.
The purpose of this role is to increase Kazang’s partnership with key FMCG (or related) partners in the region: to engage, sell, negotiate, onboard, and manage key suppliers.
Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Onboarding of new Suppliers onto the Kazang platform.
- Managing existing supplier relationships.
- Co-operating with Kazang sales structures to maximise volumes to suppliers.
- Building Kazang cashless payments ecosystem.
- Managing a team of Supplier and Vault Reps.
In order to be considered for this position, the following requirements must be met:
- Matric/Grade 12.
- 5 years experience in Sales, Account Management, or Business Development in FMCG or Payments company.
- Experience in the per-urban/rural ‘informal’ economy would be advantageous.
- Skilled in sales and negotiation at an informal level as well as with semi-corporate partners.
- Well networked within ‘informal’ Business value chains particularly large wholesalers and FMCG suppliers (or the ability to rapidly grow network).
Technical Skills:
- Computer literacy – MS Office Suite.
- MS Teams or any other real-time communication apps.
- Basic working knowledge of PowerBI (advantage).
