(12 Month Contract - Renewable) (Working for a client with HQ based in Mauritius )
Location:
- Preferred in office at our clients offices in Sandton, Johannesburg.
- Our client is open to hiring remote (and international) candidates.
Our Client is a Global Sales team and they are hiring a Market and Trend Research Analyst to support our sales activities.
This is a new role that has two core responsibilities:
- Providing the team with sales leads and insights in key markets and industries.
- Enriching data on companies in our sales pipeline to increase the information available to the sales team to maximize their chance of success.
- This role will report to the Global Sales leadership team. You will have their full support and enhance your productivity.
- Bachelors degree, preferably with a focus in fields of Business and Commerce
- 2+ years relevant work experience preferably in a sales environment
- High proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint.
- Preferred experience with typical sales software stack including CRM and Sales Intelligence
- Reads extensively and stays up to date with new and current affairs.
- Demonstrates understanding of the business and political averment in the United States of America
- Research new and existing industries to discover potential customers for our sales team.
- Identify and highlight important trends in key Markets and present recommendation to the sales team.
- Mange account lists by importing into our CRM and distributing them between team members.
- Map out reporting hierarchies on key accounts to identify buying committees and support the selling process.
- Creative ways of finding information.
- Making connections and seeing patterns in data.
- Attention to detail, patience, persistence, and the ability to dive to summarize and explain findings.
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
