Steel Industry Company Jobs in Kenya


Steel Industry

Our client is a Steel Company in Nairobi looking for a sales representatives, regional sales manager, export manager and credit controller to help boost its services and products. 

The successful candidate MUST have Marketing experience in STEEL.

Salary: Negotiable

Sales representatives 

(4 positions)

Western region, Eastern region, Nyanza region, Central region

Duties and responsibilities;
  • Quote customers and sale.
  • Looking for cash customers. -
  • Servicing needs for existing customers.
  • Gather market and customers, information and provide feedback.
  • Identify new business markets and opportunities.
  • Visit potential customers for new business.
  • Create awareness of products.
Key competences;
  • Passport size picture and complete curriculum vitae with references.
  • Minimum qualification an undergraduate degree in business or relevant field.
  • Minimum 2 years’ experience in relevant field.
  • Must have Confident and Aggressive
  • Must be Computer Literate
Regional Sales Manager 

Job Purpose: Sells products by maintaining and expanding customer base; managing staff.

Duties and responsibilities:
  • Achieve regional sales operational objectives by contributing regional sales information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; identifying trends; determining regional sales system improvements; implementing change.
  • Meets regional sales financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
  • Establishes sales objectives by creating a sales plan and quota for districts in support of national objectives.
  • Maintains and expands customer base by counseling district sales representatives; building and maintaining rapport with key customers; identifying new customer opportunities.
  • Implements trade promotions by publishing, tracking, and evaluating trade spending.
  • Accomplishes sales and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
Academic qualification;
  • Qualification minimum of an undergraduate degree in business or relevant field.
  • Minimum experience of 5 years in relevant field.
  • Must be Mature, Confident and Aggressive
  • Must be computer literate
  • Commercially aware
  • Should have a professional appearance in order to give a positive image to the organization
  • Gujrati speaking preferable
Export manager (forwarders)

Job Duties and responsibilities;
  • Export manager will be responsible for all necessary documentation for the exporting of goods. He/she must understand all government regulations, foreign and domestic, for the shipping, packaging and transporting of goods through all countries to their destination.
  • He/she shall coordinate export payments between clients, officials and government agencies where necessary.
  • Determine the appropriate routing of goods, based on transit times, security needs and the type of goods shipped.
  • Responsible for arranging consolidation of shipments with a common destination in order to offer clients options on the prices of transportation.
  • Advise clients on port charges, freight costs, special documentation costs, consular fees and the cost of insurance
  • Track loads and assist clients with information on transfers, time lines, regulations and any other problems affecting their shipments. They will reroute shipments for clients when necessary and offer storage facilities until a shipment can continue to its destination.
Educational Requirements;
  • Ideally bachelor’s degree in electrical/ mechanical engineering
  • Diploma in marketing or business management & administration
  • Strong problem solving skills based on an ability to analyze a situation based on hard facts and figures, blended with a touch of creative thinking
  • At least 10 years’ experience in steel export.
  • Experience in a shipping or clearing and forwarding environment.
  • Good people management skills
  • Computer literacy including office applications, such as MS Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Internet
  • Ability to work under pressure and meet deadline
Please send an up to date CV, stating your current salary, accompanied by at least 3 referee telephone numbers/email addresses to: jobs@jantakenya.com by 25th march 2013.

DO NOT attach ANY certificates.

Only short listed candidates will be contacted. 

Please indicate on the subject line which position you are interested in.

Please do not apply if you DO NOT meet the requirements of the job