Balla Keita, Sales Manager

Balla Keita

Sales Manager

Air Liquide

Location
Mali
Education
Master's degree, Engineering Project Management
Experience
5 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :5 years, 4 Months

Sales Manager at Air Liquide
  • Mali - Bamako
  • September 2011 to December 2012

Position: Sales Manager
Responsibilities: Managing accounts, debt collecting, establishing contracts,
Bringing new business and costumers into the company, visiting factories mines and offer Air Liquide products and services.
Skills Acquired: People management, accounts management, business development, preparing contracts; debt recovery, knowledge of different types of gases, extinguishers and welding equipments, building relationship with new clients, prospecting new business opportunities.
2010/2011 Unipart Technology Logistics
Position: Quality Controller
Responsibilities: sampling, measuring and verifying that manufactured products meet pre-determined quality standards. Recording information on non-conforming products; identifying causes for the out-of-spec product and then work to improve the product's quality.

Skills Acquired: inspecting, testing, keeping record, identifying causes for the out-of-spec product and then work to improve the product's quality.

Sales Consultant at EDF Energy
  • United Kingdom
  • January 2007 to December 2008

2007/2008 EDF Energy
Position: Sales Consultant
Responsibilities: Sales Representative, advising to potential customer dealing with theirs questions. Account management, sales development.
Skills Acquired: Contracting, portfolio management, negotiation costumer service, people management skills, building relationship with clients

Arkville Marketing at Cobra Group Plc
  • January 2006 to January 2007

2006/2007 Arkville Marketing (Cobra Group Plc)

Sales Advisor at Co-operative Prologis Park
  • January 2005 to January 2006

Position: Sales Advisor
Responsibilities: Sales Representative, advising costumer, marketing, promoting products, contract management, sales management.
Skills Acquired: Communication, leadership, negotiation, business development, customer service, sales and marketing techniques

2005/2006 Co-operative Prologis Park
Position: Order Processing
Responsibilities: Dealing with invoices and processing orders for supermarkets, supervising picking and dispatching of goods.
Skills Acquired: Team working, prioritising demanding workload, logistics stock control.

Education

Master's degree, Engineering Project Management
  • at Coventry University
  • January 2008

2007/2008 MSc in Engineering Project Management Coventry University

Bachelor's degree,
  • at Coventry University
  • November 2007

Modules Included: Masters Project; Study Skills and Research Methods; Financial Decision Making and Risk Analysis; Human Resource Management Supply Chain Management; Management of Quality; Contract Management Project Management; Advanced Project Management; Engineering Strategy Skills Developed: management at different level; risk assessment; quality control; project management and planning; Health and safety in working environment. 2004/2007 BA (Hons) in International Relations and Business Coventry University Modules Included: Strategic Management, Human Resource Management, International Finance, Finance for Business, Studying Organisations, Aspects of Human Resource, Business Management, Employee Development, Business Organisation, Information Skills and Personal Development, Conflict and Diplomacy in the Contemporary World, World Politic after the Cold War, World Politics Globalisation Power and Order, World Politics Since 1945, Propaganda and Foreign Policy, The European Union and its Member States and my final year's Project was on the European Union and African Economic Development. Skills Developed Excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills, ability to prioritise demanding workload and meet deadlines, able to adopt a methodical and logical approach to solving problems, and gained knowledge of cultural diversity in world political system,

Bachelor's degree, International Relations
  • at Coventry University
  • November 2007

Prof Alasdair Blair, Jean Monnet Chair and Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Coventry University, Faculty of Business, Environment and Society, Priory Street CV1 5FB Coventry England UK Tel: (0044) 2476888014 / Email: a.blair@coventry.ac.uk Employer Andy Clarke Managing Director Arkville Marketing Ldt, 3rd floor West Orchard House 28 Corporation Street CV1 1GF Coventry England UK Tel: (0044) 2476222295 / Email: andy.clarke@coventrymarketing.co.uk Aliou Traore Business Manager Air Liquide Mali Zone Industrielle- Route de Sotuba - BP 5 Bamako-Mali. Tel: (00223) 20212394/ 66751866 Email: aliou.traore@airliquide.com

Diploma, Business Studies
  • at Liverpool Community College
  • January 2004

2003/2004 Access to Business Studies Liverpool Community College Modules Included: Finance, Business Computing, Business Studies, Communication Skills, Information and Technology, Mathematics. Skills Developed: Good Communication skills, Business and communication, keyboarding and computing skills (World, Access, Excel, PowerPoint and Internet)

Diploma, Tax Systems
  • at National Institute of Finance Kolea

1997 / 2001 Diploma in Tax Systems National Institute of Finance Kolea Modules Included: Business Accountancy, Analytical Accountancy, Public Accountancy, Direct Imposition, Indirect Imposition, Custom Tax, VAT, Public Law, Work Law, and Private Law. Skills Developed: Variety of accounting, budgeting, public finance, principles of taxation, tax declaration analysis, recording and managing tax declaration files and working without breaching law.

Specialties & Skills

Large Account Sales
ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
CLIENTS
CONTRACTS
MARKETING
POEPLE MANAGEMENT
PROSPECTING
SALES CONSULTANT
SALES REPRESENTATIVE

Languages

English
Expert
French
Expert
Spanish
Expert

Memberships

International Youth Chamber JCI
  • Member
  • November 2008

Hobbies

  • I enjoy sports such as: football, tennis, karate, and biking. I love reading newspapers. As hobby