First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of sales workers other than retail sales workers. May perform duties such as budgeting, accounting, and personnel work, in addition to supervisory duties.
What is this job like?
- Direct and supervise employees engaged in sales, inventory-taking, reconciling cash receipts, or performing specific services.
- Listen to and resolve customer complaints regarding services, products, or personnel.
- Monitor sales staff performance to ensure that goals are met.
- Monitor sales staff performance to ensure that goals are met.
- Prepare sales and inventory reports for management and budget departments.
- Listen to and resolve customer complaints regarding services, products, or personnel.
- Attend company meetings to exchange product information and coordinate work activities with other departments.
- Formulate pricing policies on merchandise according to profitability requirements.
- Confer with company officials to develop methods and procedures to increase sales, expand markets, and promote business.
- Plan and prepare work schedules, and assign employees to specific duties.
- Examine merchandise to ensure correct pricing and display, and that it functions as advertised.
- Prepare rental or lease agreements, specifying charges and payment procedures for use of machinery, tools, or other items.
- Inventory stock and reorder when inventories drop to specified levels.
- Visit retailers and sales representatives to promote products and gather information.
- Inventory stock and reorder when inventories drop to specified levels.
- Visit retailers and sales representatives to promote products and gather information.
- Hire, train, and evaluate personnel.
- Direct and supervise employees engaged in sales, inventory-taking, reconciling cash receipts, or performing specific services.
- Examine products purchased for resale or received for storage to determine product condition.
- Coordinate sales promotion activities, such as preparing merchandise displays and advertising copy.
- Analyze details of sales territories to assess their growth potential and to set quotas.
- Keep records pertaining to purchases, sales, and requisitions.
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