About the job IT Sales Professional in Lesotho
As an IT sales professional, you’ll usually work remotely with commercial clients, finding the right technological services from our catalogue as listed on our website along with SaaS products to suit their business needs.
In pre-sales, this may involve demonstrating features of a particular SaaS product.
Responsibilities
As an IT sales professional, you’ll need to:
- speak to customers, either face to face or over the phone
- gain an understanding of customers’ specific business needs and apply service or product knowledge to meet them
- carry out cold-calling in order to create interest in products and services, generate new business leads and arrange meetings
- identify and develop new business through networking and follow-up courtesy calls
- prepare and deliver presentations and demonstrations of our service descriptions or SaaS products to customers
- develop effective sales plans using sales methodology
- meet sales targets set by managers and contribute to team targets
- manage workload in order to organise and prioritise daily and weekly goals
- contribute to team or progress meetings to update and inform colleagues
Salary
- Starting salaries for IT Sales Professionals in Africa is $300 with room for growth to up to $1000 per month.
Working hours
Our working hours are typically 9am to 5pm UK time, putting in extra hours where approaching deadlines require them.
Qualifications
This area of work requires a degree in one of the following subjects:
- business information systems or technology
- business management
- computer science, software engineering or computer engineering
- sales and marketing
Having a retail background can help you get into this position as well.
Skills
You’ll need to show evidence of the following:
- a good level of technical understanding, with enthusiasm for new technology and its commercial uses – though having technical skills before you start isn’t essential
- self-motivation and a competitive, results-driven attitude
- passion, dedication and focus
- stamina, resilience and the ability to work well under pressure
- confident presentation skills and a professional telephone manner
- time-management skills and the ability to prioritise your workload
- ability to pay attention to detail
- articulate, persuasive and influential verbal communication skills
- ability to work well in teams
- business awareness
Work experience
Experience of a customer service or sales environment will improve your chances of securing this job. We will be particularly impressed if you can demonstrate evidence of exceeding sales targets and the ability to build successful customer relationships in previous roles. Additionally, if you are willing to demonstrate your skills for us to assess if you’re a good fit for the open position, besides your resume and previous roles.
Any sales experience may therefore be helpful, including working in a call centre or telemarketing role, where sales skills and the ability to meet targets are illustrated.