Area Sales Manager

**Location**: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

**Salary**: Competitive + up to 25% bonus + healthcare + other allowances in line with local policy.

Fixed Term Contract 12 months with view to extend 40 hours per week - Typically working Days and Hours - Monday to Friday, 08:30 to 17:30 - If flexibility is important to you, please discuss potential opportunities with our hiring team.

Do you have sales experience within the Agriculture - Premix & Feed Additives Industry? Are you an excellent communicator with good English speaking skills?

We are seeking an Area Sales Manager in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to be responsible for generating sales of products and solutions to both existing and new customers within an assigned sales territory. The successful Sales Manager will plan and make sales calls and select products and programs that motivate customers to buy products/solutions.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Investigate business opportunities with prospective customers.
- Introduce company products, services and solutions to customers and develop business.
- Research and set up the list of prospective customers; Investigate customers’ issues and advise on follow up actions.
- Build up and maintain relationships with customers through managing and interpreting their requirements.
- Analyze target market and competitors; Analyze SWOT matrix of each product
- Prepare and implement sales action plans to achieve sales target for assigned business/territory.
- Build action plans for selling Premixes, Feed additives and Proteins. Provide timely feedback to manager on the execution of sales action plans and development areas.
- Execute sales activities for business assigned.
- Analyze and identify business opportunities and raise suggestions/recommendations to utilize these opportunities.
- Prepare/review quotations, proposals and contracts to facilitate sales agreements.
- Monitor competitors’ activities and products. Recommend proper actions to counter competition.
- Prepare sales reports and report projected sales forecasts. Highlight unusual increase/decrease in customers’ demand.

**Skills and Experience**
- Significant sales experience in the industry
- Demonstrate strong communication and negotiation skills
- A progressive and proven track record of marketing and sales success
- Experience of business consulting and project management techniques
- Good knowledge and understanding of feed industry/market/customers
- Good understanding of the English language

**Location**

Our offices are located in the south of Ho Chi Minh City and are home to 10 people across Finance, HR, Administration and Sales. We are looking for someone who can be in the office with the team 3-5 days a week with some remote and flexible working available.

**Rewarding your passion**

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits - these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

**About us**

We’re AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

**Application Notes**

**Agencies and media sales**

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.