Yusuf Abdulrazaq Tanko
Abuja
Summary
Highly motivated and results-driven professional dedicated to making a positive impact within organizations. Passionate about driving change and fostering growth, strives to contribute skills, expertise, and collaborative approach to creating a thriving work environment. Committed to driving forward positive transformation and delivering exceptional results for the organization.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Agronomy Sales Executive
Shiagro Nigeria Limited
06.2024 - 01.2025
- Developed and Implemented sales strategies to achieve company business targets and objectives
- Conducted market research for identifying new market opportunities, growth and customer needs.
- Offered professional agronomic advices to customers to help them increase yield and crop management
- Conducted field trials and demonstrations to showcase products benefits to customers
- Prepared regular reports on sales activities, market trends and customer feedback
- Ensured compliance with agricultural regulations and safety standards related to agro inputs use.
- Built and maintained strong relationships with farmers, agribusiness and distributors
Sales Representative
M & W Nuts Company
09.2023 - 05.2024
- Responsible for discovering, developing and implementing strategy for new markets segments and customers .
- Conduct market research to identify opportunities for growth and to gather competitive intelligence.
- Support and attend sales/marketing activities and events brand awareness, products and to identify mature prospects.
- Liaise with customers to support their marketing and sales efforts to promotes and showcase products.
- Provide input to management in preparing sales budget.
- Ensure customers stock level are well maintained.
- Used customer insights to develop innovative sales strategies to increase sales.
- Support handling customer complaints and resolving it.
Marketing Intern
British American Tobacco Nigeria Marketing
03.2022 - 03.2023
- Supported the marketing team in ensuring Trade Marketing and Distribution fundamentals.
- Participated in brainstorming meetings, contributing innovative ideas for upcoming marketing initiatives and efforts.
- Discovered and developed 170 new retail customers outlets within FCT
- Developed and derived territory coverage Plan (TCP) in order to increase sales volume within newly discovered locations in FCT and managed 20 customer calls daily to ensure TM & D Fundamentals
- Educate, Engage and Motivate retailers to advocate own brands to adult shoppers -Gain consumer and trade participation in consumer promotions
- Ensured business aims and objectives in terms of pricing, availability, visibility, volume and quality of products are achieved for territory
- Developed effective working relationship with customers by providing assistance and support through regular communication and prompt handling of market issues
- Fully Participated in activation of Pall Mall brand within FCT.
- First hand knowledge of Cluster Development Channel Management
Field Extension Assistant Officer 2
National Youth Service Corps/ ARDS-FCDA
11.2020 - 11.2021
- Assisted in planning of weekly field visitations and monthly open field day program -Planning for training of 30 farmers group on new sustainable farming systems
- Farm supervision
- Developed procedures and techniques for solving specific problems hindering production.
- Visited sites to inspect production progress and identify cases of disease, pests or under-performance, providing practical solutions that transcends to yield increase by 5%
Education
Bachelors Degree - Agriculture
Ahmadu Bello University
Zaria, Kaduna State-Nigeria02.2020
SSCE - Sciences
College Of Education Staff Secondary School
Kano06.2012
GCSEs -
Eliztor High School
Barikin Ladi Plateau State06.2009
Primary School Leaving Certificate -
St Mark's Primary School
Barikin Ladi-Plateau State06.2006
Skills
- Very conversant with Microsoft word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint
- Strong Interpersonal Relationship
- Learning ability, Problem Solving ability, good decision Making, Prioritization skills
- Good People Management and Team Player
- Easily adaptable and good attention to detail
- Sales strategy familiarity
- Analytical Problem Solving
Languages
English
Fluent
Hausa
Native
French
Elementary
Certification
- Bachelor of Agriculture - February 2020
- West African Senior School Certificate (WASSC) - June 2012
- Primary School Leaving Certificate - June 2006
- National Youth Service Certificate- November 2021
- Development Bank of Nigeria Certificate - November 2021
DBN Entrepreneurship Training Program
Education
Prof Ismail Abubakar -Director Engineering Services, Federal Road Maintenance Agency Abuja.
08033176363 | aismail@abu.edu.ng
Prof Musa Abdullahi Mahadi - Director, Division for Agricultural Colleges, Ahamdu Bello University Zaria-Nigeria
08037009728 | musamahadi@gmail.com
Dr Sadiya Haruna Tanko - Deputy Dean of Students Affairs, Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic Bauchi State.
08033858125 | sadytank@gmail.com
Contact
Abuja, 900104 Federal Capital Territory
Education
Barikin Ladi-Plateau State,Junior School leaving Certificate,Barikin Ladi Plateau State,Senior Secondary School Certificate,Kano,B.Agriculture,Zaria, Kaduna State-Nigeria
Timeline
Agronomy Sales Executive
Shiagro Nigeria Limited
06.2024 - 01.2025
Sales Representative
M & W Nuts Company
09.2023 - 05.2024
Marketing Intern
British American Tobacco Nigeria Marketing
03.2022 - 03.2023
Field Extension Assistant Officer 2
National Youth Service Corps/ ARDS-FCDA
11.2020 - 11.2021
Bachelors Degree - Agriculture
Ahmadu Bello University
SSCE - Sciences
College Of Education Staff Secondary School
GCSEs -
Eliztor High School
Primary School Leaving Certificate -
St Mark's Primary School
- Bachelor of Agriculture - February 2020
- West African Senior School Certificate (WASSC) - June 2012
- Primary School Leaving Certificate - June 2006
- National Youth Service Certificate- November 2021
- Development Bank of Nigeria Certificate - November 2021
DBN Entrepreneurship Training Program
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