Sales & Trade Development Representative

About the role

The Sales & Trade Development Representative will be responsible for managing and expanding MTN’s trade infrastructure and financial services across the Chikun territory. The role focuses on ensuring product availability, driving brand visibility, and supporting retailers and sub‑dealers to achieve MTN’s market dominance.

Key responsibilities

• Visit sub‑dealers and dealer branches daily, verify stock receipt and movement, and provide on‑the‑spot product and promotion training.
• Plan, execute and evaluate promotional events, generate specifications and produce post‑promo reports.
• Prepare weekly and monthly sales activity and market intelligence reports for field service engineers.
• Monitor network quality and other sales‑impacting indicators, reporting any issues.
• Maintain an 8‑10 visit call cycle per day, updating the channel database weekly.
• Ensure MTN product availability exceeds 95 % in all visited outlets and submit availability reports.
• Drive brand awareness through signage, POS distribution and achieve at least 65 % channel visibility.
• Support merchandising, build relationships between distributors, sub‑dealers and retailers, and resolve activation or promotion queries.
• Collect market feedback and relay information to management.

Required profile

• First degree, preferably in social sciences.
• Fluent in English.
• 1–3 years of sales and marketing experience, preferably in a fast‑moving consumer goods environment.
• Experience working in a medium‑sized organization and collaborating with cross‑functional teams.

Required skills