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Sales Management (5 cr)

Code: KH00BF28-3002

General information


Enrollment

02.12.2019 - 31.01.2020

Timing

23.01.2020 - 07.05.2020

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Unit

Engineering and Business

Campus

Kupittaa Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

10 - 30

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Professional Sales

Teachers

  • Jouko Broman

Groups

  • PMYYNS18
    Myyntityö
  • LEMMODYRMYMyynninJohtaminenPMYYNS18
    LEMMODYRMYMyynninJohtaminenPMYYNS18

Objective

The student is able:
• to execute sales management
• to analyze problems related to sales management and to make decisions
• to organize sales functions, tasks and responsibilities
• to lead and train salespeople
• to evaluate and develop salespeople and sales functions

Content

• Alignment of the sales strategies with company and marketing strategies
• Organizing sales functions and sales channels
• Leading sales force
• Recruiting, rewarding and motivating sales force
• Training and developing sales skills
• Managing ethical issues related to selling
• Target setting and pipeline management
• Evaluating performance of the salespeople

Materials

Winnie-the-Pooh on management, Leading Performance, Working with Emotional Intelligence, Selling and Sales management

Teaching methods

Lectures, litterature, refering texts (2-3- pages, word), team work.

Exam schedules

Wrap up 9.4., exam 16.4. and reflection 23.4.

International connections

Innopeda principles applied

Completion alternatives

None. Lectures recommended. All given tasks need to be returned done By individuals and/or teams to Optima By given deadlines.

Student workload

Listen and learn, reading, refering the readings, team work and exam (about 3 working weeks).

Content scheduling

On Tuesday mornings 8-10, except one full Tuesday in Helsinki with Academic work.
Group work on an american sales team. Evaluating the performance of the sales teams. Thereafter making an annual operating plan.
Self management and leading, Leadership - evaluating an unorganised manager: what goes wrong, how to correct the behavior. The six tasks of a manager, leading performance. Strategic sales management - leading a team.
The student is capable:
• to execute sales management
• to analyze problems related to sales management and to make decisions
• to organize sales functions, tasks and responsibilities
• to lead and train salespeople
• to evaluate and develop salespeople and sales functions

Further information

Neill sales force data. Group work based on the given data.

Unorganised manager group reflections

Evaluation scale

H-5