Assistant Manager - Sales (Freight Forwarding DivisIon)

Objective: Will assist the Branch Manager in business development and be directly responsible for revenue generation from specified geographical areas. The Assistant Manager - Sales will work towards achieving set targets on all core products. ACI/ GPGI /SFI / ACE / SFE / GPGE & WMS
Main responsibilities :
1. Manage an assigned geographical sales area or product line to maximize sales revenues & coverage to meet corporate objectives
2. Develop prospective clients, make cold calls and service and grow existing clients
3. Respond to inquiries by clients
4. Send inquiries to agents
5. Prepare quotations through Sales support and send to clients
6. Follow –up on quotations and close business, if lost revert with reasons
7. On receiving confirmed business hand over to customer service
8. Coordinate through Customer service with operations for container placing / container releases etc.
9. Monitor timely Delivery of invoices to clients if any disputes, update credit control
10. Collect dues and outstanding amounts from clients in allotted credit limit
11. Meet volume targets
12. Timely submission of reports set by the management as per the deadline
13. Provide MIS information on Market & Competitor activity to Management
14. Ensure Credit customers are wetted out through the with Credit approval process

English - Very Good
Arabic - Fluent / Excellent

Own a Car

Any

Have Driving License

Any

Job Skills

University qualifications : Graduate or post graduate in any stream
Previous experience : 5-9years of freight forwarding experience in selling / marketing of air/sea products.
Current Residence : Abu Dhabi

About The Company

Founded in 1988 as a forwarding company FSL today has grown rapidly in its range of services, turnover and geographic coverage, establishing itself as a leading forwarder worldwide.
Evolving itself to meet the changing needs of the industry and offering quality solutions to clients FSL has successfully networked itself extensively so as to be able to meet all service demands.
With freight forwarding as its core activity FSL has diversified into logistics, removals, project forwarding and outbound logistics, complementary services requiring similar infrastructure and capabilities. These ventures though established fairly recently have also turned into viable profit centers contributing to the growth of FSL while offering service par excellence to the respective industries.