Job title: Junior Sales Executive
Work Location: Hariss International Limited – Kampala, Uganda
Division / Department: Sales and Marketing
Reports to: Area Sales Supervisor
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Educate retailers on Hariss products and offers.
- Identify potential customers and generate leads through market research and networking.
- Conduct cold calls, and in-person visits to promote products.
- Assist in executing sales strategies to achieve company objectives.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with existing and potential clients.
- Address client queries and provide product information promptly.
- Maintain well merchandised Hariss Fridges with in the area of operation according to the Chillers SOPs.
- Follow up on sales leads to convert them into long-term customers.
- Monitor market trends, competitor activities, and customer preferences and share information with the Sales team.
- Provide feedback to the sales and marketing team to improve product positioning.
- Process orders accurately and ensure timely delivery of products.
- Maintain detailed records of client interactions, sales, and inventory.
- Prepare and present regular sales reports to the Area Sales Supervisor.
- Coordinate with internal teams, such as marketing and logistics, to ensure smooth operations.
- Participate in team meetings and contribute ideas to improve sales performance.
Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:
- A minimum of a Diploma in business administration or management or any equivalent.
- A marketing certification is an added advantage
- A minimum of 1 years’ experience in a similar role in a busy environment.
Key Requirements:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers
- Must be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines, while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service
- Ability to work independently and to carry out assignments to completion within parameters of instructions given, prescribed routines, and standard accepted practices.
Job title: Brand Manager
Work Location: Hariss International Limited – Kampala, Uganda
Division / Department: Commercial
Reports to: Head of Marketing
Job Purpose
Hariss International Limited, a proud producer of over 80 quality brands including Riham Foods, Rock Boom, Sky View, Krystal Water, and Oner Fruit Juice, is seeking a forward-thinking and innovative Brand Manager. Reporting directly to the Head of Marketing, this pivotal role involves crafting and executing marketing strategies that deeply connect with our consumers. You’ll collaborate with internal teams and external partners to deliver high-impact, results-driven campaigns that elevate our brands.
As a Brand Manager at Hariss International, you will drive brand growth, foster innovation, and inspire consumer engagement. If you are passionate about delivering excellence, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and are ready to contribute to a company committed to quality, innovation, and success, we encourage you to apply.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
The key responsibilities.
- Develop Marketing Strategies: Design and execute marketing calendars featuring ATL campaigns, BTL programs, and innovation pipelines to enhance brand growth and visibility.
- End-to-End Campaign Execution: Lead the execution of marketing plans, from creative ideation and agency coordination to post-launch performance analysis.
- Annual Brand Calendar Management: Oversee the development of the annual marketing calendar, ensuring effective allocation of budgets (DME) and alignment with business goals.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with internal teams to manage marketing projects, including packaging design, product innovation, and OBPPC (Occasion, Brand, Price, Pack, Channel) solutions.
- Agency Collaboration: Partner with creative, research, and experiential agencies to deliver best-in-class marketing campaigns tailored to consumer needs.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong relationships with stakeholders, aligning efforts to support marketing programs and brand innovations.
- Performance Monitoring: Analyze key business metrics (market share, brand health, commercial performance) to uncover opportunities, mitigate risks, and drive continuous improvement.
- Budget Management: Manage and monitor marketing budgets, ensuring cost efficiency while delivering actionable insights and performance metrics through comprehensive post-launch reviews.
Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:
- A Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field (minimum).
- 3–5 years of experience in brand management, marketing, or a related role within the FMCG industry.
- Proven success in executing impactful marketing campaigns and managing brand portfolios.
- Strong project management, organizational, and communication skills.
- Analytical skills to interpret data and drive data-informed decision-making.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, digital marketing tools, and social media platforms.
- A creative, proactive mindset with a passion for growing and nurturing brands.
- Ability to build relationships and foster collaboration across teams and stakeholders.
Key Requirements:
Strong analytical, problem solving, attention to detail and process improvement skills.
Ability to work well under pressure, to handle crisis situations, and balance several tasks simultaneously.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills required, as well as effectively communicate with a cross-cultural workforce and client base.
A team player able to work effectively across different departments, functions, and environments
Must possess strong work ethics and excellent client service skills to ensure effective responsive client interaction (internal and external).
Strong computer skills, including Word, Excel, Access, & PowerPoint.
Job title: Sales Executive
Work Location: Hariss International Limited – Kampala, Uganda
Division / Department: Sales & Marketing
Reports to: Area Sales Supervisor
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensure that the agent’s stores are opened early and you go to the field early.
- Cover all the sales points (shops, stockiest, restaurants, supermarket’s, hotels, hospitals, bars and kiosks).
- Monitor our products in each and every sales point as well as checking for expiries.
- Arrange the displays for our products in your area.
- Move with the agent’s sales team on all routes and monitor their activities and in case of any issues you report to your supervisor or manager.
- Follow up on orders when the stock levels reduce in the store.
- Monitor the company fridges for displays, availability of products and that no competitor products are displayed in these fridges.
- Load all brands i.e. soda, water, energy drink, juice and biscuits in reasonable quantities when going to the field. push all the company brands and a penalty will be charged for failure to push certain brands.
- Maintain the market that has been created by the promotions and supervision team especially for water.
- Ensure that bonuses are given to customers whenever there is a promotion and failure to do this will be regarded as dishonesty and theft.
- Always move with posters whenever you go for a route sale and put them in all areas of entrance, visibility and replace those that have been removed.
- You should not disclose any information to competitors regarding our products, prices, business processes or sales.
- You are expected to achieve the expected minimum sales target of at least 85% of your total target. Failure to achieve this target for three consecutive months may lead to termination.
- You should report to management all those agents mixing other products either on the distribution truck or store.
- Advise the agents depot manager to always arrange the products in a proper way to avoid damages and expiries.
- Always use the company line to communicate to your agent and all your customers.
- You should be faithful to your employer and you should not receive any bribes from your agent and all your customers.
- Always portray the best company image by dressing appropriately and keep neat and smart.
- Customer approach: explain to customers about all the products and use the profit strategy to sell slow moving products.
- Enforce territorial respect between the agents and control dumping.
- Taking alcohol is not acceptable during working hours.
- Handle and take good care of company property like phones and laptops and any costs for damages and repairs due to negligence will be charged on you.
- Daily reports should be sent to the data office and a weekly report sent to the supervisor.
- Monitor adverts on radio and Televisions and inform management about the old adverts that are aired or adverts with a wrong price.
- You should know all your customers by name, and they should also know you.
- In case the agent trusts you with money, avoid misusing it as this could lead you to be arrested and be taken to police.
- Ensure that there is no overcharging of customers in your areas and if this happens it may lead to your termination and forfeiting of all your terminal benefits.
- And any other duties as assigned by Management
Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:
A minimum of a diploma’s in Business Administration (Marketing science major) or any relevant discipline.
A minimum of 2 years’ experience in a similar role in a busy environment
Key Requirements:
At least 2-3 years hands-on in the market.
Must be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines, while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service
Ability to work independently and to carry out assignments to completion within parameters of instructions given, prescribed routines, and standard accepted practices
Job title: Merchandiser
Work Location: Hariss International Limited – Kampala, Uganda
Division / Department: Sales and Marketing
Reports to: Modern Trade Manager
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Honoring the route, door to door
- Generating orders by using the daily checklist.
- Ensuring brand availability in enough qualities.
- Ensuring Brand visibility.
- Maintaining good relationships with the supplier.
- Dusting products and cleaning where necessary.
- Taking care of company fridges and reporting misuse.
- Having correct tags following company RRP
- Maintaining share of shelf to occupy the largest portion of shelf in all competing categories
- Fighting for more facings and not allowing competitors.
- Notifying the company about competitors’ information and activities
- Interacting with customers and end users.
- Maintain and service allocated outlets /Sales points.
- Checking for short expiries and monitoring products in all assigned outlet
- Uphold confidentiality of company information
- Submit daily reports and route plans with live location
- Provide quality customer service and attend to all customer needs and concerns
- Take daily stock of available products using checklist.
- Receive goods from supplier
- Any other duties assigned by management
- The ending time for one’s daily activities depends on route completion. merchandisers are advised to have good relationships with everyone in their market and this is not limited to supervisors and suppliers.
- Perform any other duties as per Management request.
Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:
- A minimum of a diploma in Marketing science, bachelor’s degree in BBA OR BCOM with a major in marketing or any other related relevant discipline from a reputable university
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience in a similar role in a busy environment.
- Key Requirements:
- Excellent attitude and body language.
- Excellent verbal communication skills, including ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers
- Excellent computer proficiency (MS Office – Word, Excel and Outlook)
- Must be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines, while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service
- Ability to work independently and to carry out assignments to completion within parameters of instructions given, prescribed routines, and standard accepted practices
Job title: Market Impact Member
Work Location: Hariss International Limited – Kampala, Uganda
Division / Department: Sales and Marketing
Reports to: Market Impact Team Leader
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Educate retailers on Hariss products and offers.
- Encourage retailers & Stockists to sell more of Hariss products.
- Recruit and register more retailers and Stockists for the assigned products of Hariss
- Ensure proper merchandizing in each market such to ensure brand visibility, display and checking of short expiries
- Ensure increased recommendation of Hariss products to customers by the retailers i.e. growing brand loyalty.
- Collect complaints and send through to aligned supervisor or Customer care.
- Be the brand ambassador of Hariss to Customers
- Performs any other task as per management request.
Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:
- A minimum of a Diploma in business administration or management.
- A marketing certification is an added advantage
- A minimum of 1 years’ experience in a similar role in a busy environment.
Key Requirements:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers
- Excellent computer proficiency (MS Office – Word, Excel and Outlook)
- Must be able to work under pressure and meet deadlines, while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service
- Ability to work independently and to carry out assignments to completion within parameters of instructions given, prescribed routines, and standard accepted practices
