Job Description

Location: Krugersdorp, South Africa (Frequent travel to Rustenburg mining areas)

Salary: R50,000 per month (CTC)

Contract Type: Full-time

Our client is seeking an experienced External Sales Representative to drive revenue growth by selling engineering consumables to the hard-rock underground mining sector, focusing on PGMs in the Rustenburg region. This full-time role requires a technical sales professional dedicated to frequent face-to-face client engagement and robust market expansion.

Key responsibilities:

Sales & Growth: Execute cold calling, lead follow-ups, and live product demonstrations to achieve monthly and annual sales targets.
Relationship Management: Conduct frequent on-site visits to build strong partnerships with mining houses, contractors, and engineering teams.
Technical Support: Provide technical advice and after-sales support for underground/surface applications, quickly resolving client complaints.
Commercial Cycle: Manage the full sales lifecycle: generate quotations, track orders, monitor stock availability, and update customers.
Market Intelligence: Monitor competitor activity and market trends to inform sales strategies and complete accurate monthly reporting.

Requirements include:

Experience: 5+ years of proven sales experience within a mining, industrial, or engineering environment.
Industry Focus: Demonstrated success selling directly to hard-rock underground mining operations (PGMs)
Product Knowledge: Technical experience with mining consumables (valves, snatchblocks, hoses) is highly advantageous.
Education: Matric (Grade 12). A qualification in Business, Marketing, or Engineering is a plus.
Logistics: Valid driver's license and absolute willingness to travel frequently around Rustenburg.

Core skills

Deep understanding of hard-rock underground mining processes and MHSA safety regulations.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office for reporting/forecasting and experience using CRM/ERP systems.

About Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Enabling the Digital Enterprise

South African business leadership has always been early adopters and significantly used information technology to improve productivity, efficiency, reach new markets and optimize supply chains. What is significant in recent years is that customer expectations have changed radically from the past. The challenge facing all South African and global organisations for that matter is:

• How can they best respond to this paradigm shift?

• How can they take advantage of the opportunity to innovate and grow through technology adoption? And,

• How can they do all this as cost effectively as possible?

This in Ovations’ opinion is the highly strategic journey of Digital Enablement including the critical intersection with Cloud Adoption as the strategic enabler. We, at Ovations, believe that digital enablement incorporates the change associated with the application of modern technology in all aspects of business and society, whereby Cloud Adoption is the way in which all business will implement and accelerate digital enablement.

Ovations has core domain expertise in process automation, content services, data & analytics and financial crime and risk prevention solutions. As Ovations, we provide guidance to our clients through an entire lifecycle of the cloud adoption process including initiatives to mitigate strategic workloads to the cloud deployment models encompassing IaaS, PaaS, FaaS and SaaS. We provide the following summary core cloud adoption services in this regard:

• Enterprise architecture and cloud adoption

• Cloud adoption architecture design

• Cloud people structures, roles and change management

• Cloud governance models and business cases

• Cloud adoption platform and public cloud selection

• Cloud data security and privacy

• Cloud migration strategies

• Cloud operational SLA and platform management

• DevSecOps design and implementations

Industry

IT & Software

Company Size

51-200 employees

Headquarters

Johannesburg, ZA

Year Founded

1998

Website

ovationsgroup.com

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