Sales Manager - Publishing house

An established children’s publishing house with a legacy of creating bestselling picture and audio books is hiring for its growing sales team.

Responsibilities:

• Map the schools, distributors and retail Stores in the assigned territory.
• Create a promotional plan, strategise and execute by thinking differently to achieve the set targets.
• Identify prospects and promote our concept and products.
• Develop & maintain great rapport with the distributors and retailers.
• Timely collection of payments from booksellers & institutions.
• Have an eye on market trends and executes marketing activities with the support of the team.
• Sign up schools & Standalone and Chain Book Stores
• Ensure sales and Brand Visibility in the stores to its best on a weekly basis.
• Participate in Local events to ensure BRAND visibility and Sales.
• Organize Promotions in Ancillary verticals to boost sales on a monthly basis.
• Ensure Visibility and sales through Events and Fairs as and when possible.
• Support all operation, Marketing and logistic Functions.

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate:

• Should be a graduate with or without MBA in sales and marketing.
• Dynamic, self-motivated person and a quick learner with the ability to plan, strategise, execute and think differently with a social bent of mind.
• minimum of 3 years’ experience in institutional/ concept selling
• Has good proficiency of spoken and written English with ability to think out-of-the-box.
• Possess the ability to make power packed presentations to heads of institutions / resellers.
• Market knowledge is a requisite.
• Working knowledge of Ms- Office is a must.
• Due to the nature of work, the applicant must be willing to travel extensively in the assigned territory.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: ₹600,000.00 - ₹900,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Provident Fund

Application Question(s):

• This role is remote but due to its nature requires extensive traveling, are you open for traveling as per needs?

Where are you currently located?
When can you start?What is your salary expectation?

• Where are you currently located?
• When can you start?

• What is your salary expectation?

Experience:

• selling books/educational products to schools/institutions: 2 years (Required)
• building and managing distributor/retailer networks: 2 years (Required)

Work Location: Remote