Do you want to help solve the world's most pressing challenges? Feeding the world's growing population and slowing climate change are two of the world's greatest challenges. AGCO is a part of the solution! Join us to make your contribution.
Our Sales Team is relentless in the pursuit of excellence, ensuring AGCO delivers the best products and services in the industry in the most efficient, cost-effective way. We are currently seeking an Area Sales Manager for our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing sales activities in the respective regional area in a manner to achieve the net sales, gross margin and market share targets, agreed with the Head of Sales, Africa. This position will be based in territory (primarily based in the Cape Region).
Your Impact
- Deliver Sales and Margin targets according to plans (budget and forecasts) for the territory and product/brand line.
- Participate in the establishment of the annual sales plan for the territory and provide operational control of sales.
- Support the distribution organization within the markets in a manner that is capable of giving AGCO a competitive advantage and delivering superior customer service – in cooperation with the Distribution Development Team.
- Assist in the development and maintenance of aggressive and engaging dealer/distribution sales teams that achieves targets for growth and development of AGCO’s market presence and meets planned objectives for sales and inventory management.
- Develop an in-depth knowledge of the AG Industry in the markets and understand the wants and needs of the marketplace.
Your Experience and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree.
- Minimum of 2 – 5 years sales related experience.
- Good product and competition knowledge with appreciation of machine application.
- In depth knowledge of technical aspects of agricultural machinery required.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills (English and Afrikaans) are a must.
Your Benefits
AGCO South Africa offers a value proposition to our employees, whereby we value our employees, teamwork and have a welcoming culture, inspired by our 3 Tractors at the Main building entrance. Our employee benefits / programmes are benchmarked within the market and with AGCO globally. These include Health Insurance Benefits (Day-to-day & Major medical care needs), Risk Insurance Benefits (Disability, Life Cover, etc.), Retirement Planning Benefits, and Free Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP) to cater for those life events / unforeseen circumstances causing stress or when good, confidential advice & support is needed.
We value inclusion and recognize the innovation a diverse workforce delivers to our farmers. Through our recruitment efforts, we are committed to building a team that includes a variety of experiences, backgrounds, cultures and perspectives.
Join us as we bring agriculture into the future and apply now!