Mr D - Sales Executive

Mr D, a division of the Takealot Group, is looking for a highly talented Sales Executive to join our team in Johannesburg.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us! 

• Scale: Show the millions of Mr D customers what you can do 
• Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some.
• Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: Mr D, Takealot.com and TFS. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.

• →Assist in identifying and prioritising suitable Restaurant Partners for the Mr D platform.
• →Assist in creating as well as maintaining a robust sales pipeline.
• →Assist the team with the restaurants sign-up process
• →Operate as the lead point of contact for restaurant partners in the assisgned areas while reporting into the Regional Sales Lead.
• →Work with the Regional Sales Lead to strengthen relationships with restaurant partners and monitor their business and store performance.
• →Ensure timeous and effective solutions and feedback to restaurant partners.
• →Assist with all device-related queries from restaurant partners.
• →Assist with delivery of marketing material to various restaurants when required.
• →Train restaurant staff on use of the Mr D Food restaurant device.
• →Ensure strict restaurant visit standards are maintained

• Own Transport is Essential
• Excellent communication skills
• A highly customer-focused mindset and consultative sales approach
• Excellent negotiation and closing skills
• Knowledge of the local restaurant industry
• Exhibit the ability to self motivate
• Extremely competitive and relentless; a love for winning
• Ability to work and keep up in a fast paced environment
• Attention to detail

• Experience in marketplace, ecommerce SAAS or hospitality sales
• Minimum 1 year Prior sales experience
• Proficiency in using CRM tools (beneficial)
• Prior experience in the hospitality industry (beneficial)
• Tertiary qualification (beneficial)

• The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.
• No doors: We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab and make something great.
• Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Up-skill with free access to courses on Prosus Academy and more.
• Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds in the takealot group during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).
• Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it. 
• Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere. 
• Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to). 

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!

Mr D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference