SAB Sales & Marketing Learnership 2025

SAB Sales & Marketing Learnership 2025. Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments.

A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We seek individuals who possess passion, skill, and curiosity and provide them with the chances, tools, and colleagues they need to reach their greatest potential. When we combine your abilities with ours, we generate an unstoppable power. Are you prepared to be a part of a group that shares your aspirations?

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Job Purpose

To create a market driven differentiated service that builds sustained competitiveness within the Tavern Class of Trade, delivering sustainable growth in brand equity, sales volume, market share, competitive advantage, and corporate reputation.

Skills and Competencies:

Commercial Aptitude

Understands the value chain throughout sales and marketing, including how the functions interact with one another.
Proactively seeks out competition information and incorporates this into the overall selling task
Understanding of profitability and the importance of price, product mix, and merchandising in making commercially sound decisions.

Customer Focus

Making customers and their needs a primary focus of one’s actions
Developing and sustaining productive customer relationships
Effectively addressing client demands, accepting responsibility for customer happiness and loyalty
Connecting with and creating a good connection with customers, cooperating on plans and choices, and demonstrating criticality to the customer
Capability to establish genuine relationships among varied groupings of individuals Accountability
Being accountable for attaining outcomes and accepting responsibility for one’s actions.
Takes the role personally and professionally
A strong achievement orientation
High integrity as a representative of SAB

Flexibility

Ability to adapt behaviour to changing situations
Open minded and adjusts priorities in response to unanticipated events

Key Roles:

Resilience and endurance in handling unusual and flexible working hours
The ability to recognize problems and find solutions quickly
Willingness to work on weekends and public holidays when necessary.

Selling Skills

Recognizing possibilities and demands, utilizing a distinctive value offering, showcasing skills, and completing transactions.
Employing suitable communication techniques and interpersonal types to successfully explore options and stances in order to arrive at results that garner support.
Capacity to build rapport, determine the needs of the client, and win their commitment.
Ability to plan, organize, and prioritize sales activities.

Planning and Organizing

Collaborate with the sales lead to create specific strategies to align SAB’s value proposition and unique competitive advantage with client demands.
Focuses on the details and methodically implements strategies to meet customer expectations.
Excellent administration skills.

Customer Development

Manage and build customer relationships with tavern owners.
In order to establish productive relationships and address customer concerns, each outlet should drive weekly client contacts.
Make sure that all customer master data is entered, up to date, accurate, and maintained.
Achieve customer sales and volume targets.
Make sure that every outlet regularly purchases straight from SAB once a week.
AMPPS Delivery

Complete and impact the AMPPS survey by delivering on each targeted plan: availability, merchandising, pricing, promotions, and space.

Responsibilities:

Merchandising, Price, Promotions and Space

Monitor volumes per outlet to ensure the 100% availability of important brands and packs through ahead planning.
Manage stock rotation to ensure 100% availability
Drive the successful execution of selective merchandising implementation in the consumption and purchase zones as per the Integrated Trade Execution Guidelines (ITEG).
Negotiate and implement inner and outside pricing communication; capture price priorities, guarantee price point compliance, and carry out the overall price and promotion campaigns throughout the year.
Manage outlet retention by measuring and monitoring competition shelf space and volume sold, as well as ensuring that brands are effectively positioned to develop volume.

Asset Management

Manage SAB refrigeration assets by ensuring governance and compliance for the SAB audit.
Manage SAB assets in the stores, including permanent merchandise and signage.
Ensure that SAB items are stored in refrigerators as per ITEG.
Conduct asset verification surveys (Fridges, etc.)
Assist clients with a model stock system to manage inventory replenishment and reduce stockouts.
Manage stock rotation and quality

Minimum requirements:

Diploma or Degree
Valid unendorsed Code 8 driver’s license
Basic computer proficiency and familiarity with Microsoft Office.
Local area knowledge is a requirement.
Ability to operate in a flexible work environment (working on weekends).
Successful completion of a driver’s assessment test to demonstrate competency before appointment.

Additional information:

Region

Central
Inland
East Coast Region
Cape Region

SAB is an equal-opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made following SAB’s employment equity strategy and talent standards.
The advert has minimum requirements listed. Management reserves the right to use additional/ relevant information as criteria for shortlisting.

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