Technical Sales Officer

We are seeking a Technical Sales Officer who will Support the Sales Lead and Technical team in selling the Company’s products and services to increase market share. The suitable candidate should have the following skills:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• The ability to identify and follow up on leads.
• Exceptional skills in selling products and closing deals.
• Knowledge of sales promotion techniques.
• Excellent presentation skills and a professional appearance
• Knowledge of Remote Sensing and GIS
• Analytical skills

• A bachelor’s degree in GIS, Sales & Marketing, or a related field.
• A minimum of 4 years of sales or marketing experience.
• Technical knowledge and a comprehensive understanding of how the company products work.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• The ability to identify and follow up on leads.
• Exceptional skills in selling products and closing deals.
• Knowledge of sales promotion techniques.
• Excellent presentation skills and a professional appearance
• Knowledge of Remote Sensing and GIS
• Analytical skills

• Identify sales opportunities and follow the sequence of activities in the Sambus Sales Cycle to achieve annual sales targets.
• Networking and building connections and developing new accounts to build a potential sale pipeline.
• Developing a sales document, preparing quotes, and completing sales-related
  administration tasks.
• Providing outstanding after-sales services to clients and managing client relationships to ensure positive customer satisfaction reviews. Achieve a minimum 4-star rating (i.e. 4 out of 5) in the assigned vertical.
• Collaborating with the Finance & Operations Unit and the Tech team to ensure products are ordered and delivered within agreed timelines. This involves transferring orders to the Finance & Operations Unit for purchases and ensuring that the Tech team delivers and trains clients on products purchased within the agreed timelines.
• Drive repeat sales by checking customer purchase history and cross-selling and/or upselling clients.
• Ensure customer loyalty by generating and suggesting added value services clients end-users withing client organizations can get from the products purchased.
• Keep the product knowledge and technical skills current by participating in ongoing training, workshops, and career development programmes.
• Accept ownership for generating, maintaining, and expanding sales and value-addition.
  services in the assigned vertical.
  Operational reporting and feedback:
• To produce periodic operational reports to the line manager and provide feedback on market and customer developments that Sambus needs to respond to.
• Client and vertical research to stay up to date on industry developments and trends to build expertise and help serve clients/potential clients better.

Sambus Geospatial is a Geographic Information System (GIS) and mapping company operating in West Africa. We are the sole distributor of ESRI ArcGIS and ENVI software suite and the Authorized Resellers of Trimble Mapping GIS devices and WingtraOne Drones with exclusive representation in Ghana, Nigeria, Gambia, Gabon, Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea, and Liberia.

We develop applications that integrates technologies and provide a range of geospatial solutions and provide sales, innovation, consultancy, and training in the use of mapping and spatial analytics software for desktop, software as a service (SaaS), and enterprise applications. These products deliver location intelligence and meet digital transformation needs for organizations and individuals.

Sambus Geospatial has gained substantial experience in the development and implementation of socio-economic and environmental related projects and methodologies using GIS. Many sectors in the West African sub-region have benefited immensely from our expertise and technologies through geospatial software installation, project support and capacity building.