Job Description (Key Responsibilities)

Job Location - Tamilnadu 

As a Sales Officer, you will be responsible for driving Nestlé’s business outcomes in your assigned territory by efficiently managing distribution, sales processes, and trade relationships. Your key responsibilities include:

• Ensuring product availability across all relevant channels.
• Planning and achieving monthly and yearly sales targets, including setting targets for each distributor.
• Monitoring distributor overhead expenses and profitability (ROI).
• Managing distribution setup and leading secondary sales force deployment.
• Implementing trade and consumer activations, merchandising and visibility programs.
• Ensuring distributor compliance with company‑defined roles, processes and responsibilities.
• Ensuring accurate execution of sales, discount and trading terms.
• Training and developing the secondary sales force.
• Conducting performance evaluations of secondary sales personnel.
• Demonstrating strong communication skills, analytical thinking, flexibility, resourcefulness, innovativeness, poise, and confidence.

Qualifications

We’re looking for someone who brings:

• Bachelor’s degree in any discipline
• 1–5 years of field sales experience in FMCG/FMCD
• Strong understanding of channel sales and distribution management
• Ability to develop and maintain strong trade and distributor relationships
• Proven experience in achieving business targets and driving execution
• Good command over communication, analytics and problem-solving
• Ability to lead and motivate secondary sales teams in dynamic environments

About Us

At Nestlé, our purpose is to shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives, and deliver impact at a scale that truly makes a difference.

We believe in a diverse, supportive and collaborative culture—one that encourages innovation, embraces new ideas, and empowers individuals and teams to win. We’re driven by people who are friendly, respectful and inspiring—people who genuinely care about the lives we touch every single day.

Diversity & Inclusion

At Nestlé, we are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels respected, valued, and empowered to contribute. We celebrate diversity in all its forms gender, culture, abilities, backgrounds and perspectives because we believe it makes us stronger. We are dedicated to providing equal opportunities and creating an environment where people can bring their authentic selves to work and thrive.