Territory Sales Manager -Book Publishing

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 month

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?

Experience:

• selling books/educational products to schools/institutions: 3 years (Required)
• building and managing distributor/retailer networks: 3 years (Required)

Work Location: Remote