Field Sales Executive - Beauty And Wellbeing

Unilever Nigeria Plc - Welcome to Unilever, a global multinational and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) company with products sold in over 190 countries and more than 2 billion consumers across the world who use our amazing products everyday!

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Field Sales Executive - Beauty and Wellbeing

Job Location: Kano

Role type: Contract

Duration: 1 Year

Working hours: 8am - 5pm (Mondays - Fridays)

Description

• At Unilever Nigeria, we are committed to delivering safe, high?quality products to millions of consumers every day. This contract role provides a unique opportunity to support our factory operations by strengthening food safety systems, driving compliance, and ensuring we consistently meet internal and external food safety standards. 
• As a Field Sales Executive - Beauty and Wellbeing, you will drive sales of beauty and personal-care products by identifying potential customers, presenting products effectively, building strong customer relationships, and achieving agreed sales targets.

Main Responsibilities

• Sell beauty, skincare, and personal-care products to customers through a sales team
• Provide the necessary trainings to build the capability of the sales team in selling beauty products.
• Identify and develop new customers, retailers, beauty stores, pharmacies, and Category distributors.
• Visit existing and prospective customers to generate orders.
• Explain product features, benefits, usage, and pricing.
• Maintain strong relationships with customers and encourage repeat purchases.
• Follow up on leads and previous customers.
• Meet or exceed monthly sales targets.
• Monitor competitor products, prices, promotions, and market activity.
• Collect customer feedback and communicate market information to management.
• Prepare daily/weekly sales reports.
• Ensure proper merchandising and product visibility at retail locations.

Requirements

• Must have 1–3 years of sales experience, preferably in beauty, cosmetics, skincare, haircare, FMCG, pharmacy, or retail.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.
• Good knowledge of beauty products and the ability to learn new products quickly.
• Ability to confidently approach new customers and generate sales.
• Target-driven and comfortable working with sales targets.
• Good customer-service skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage a sales territory.
• Basic smartphone/computer skills for reporting.
• A valid driver's licence is an advantage.