Educational Products and Services Sales Representative
OFO Code: 243303
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 243303
- Occupation
- Educational Products and Services Sales Representative
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- PROFESSIONALS
- Unit group
- 2433 · Technical and Medical Sales Professionals (Excluding ICT)
Official description
Technical and medical sales professionals (excluding ICT) represent companies in selling a range of industrial, medical and pharmaceutical goods and services to industrial, business, professional and other establishments.
More official OFO detail
- Assessing clients' needs and resources and recommending appropriate goods or services
- Visiting regular and prospective client businesses to establish and act on selling opportunities
- Consulting with clients after sale to ensure satisfaction resolve any problems and provide ongoing support
- Providing input to product design where goods or services must be tailored to suit clients’ needs
- Acquiring and updating knowledge of employers’ and competitors’ goods and services, and market conditions
- Estimating costs of installing and maintaining equipment or service
- Monitoring customers’ changing needs and competitor activity, and reporting these developments to sales management
- Compiling lists of prospective client businesses using directories and other sources
- Arranging delivery of goods, installation of equipment and the provision of services
- Developing reports and proposals as part of sales presentation to demonstrate benefits from use of good or service
- Reporting to sales management on sales made and the marketability of goods and services
- Quoting and negotiating prices and credit terms, and preparing and administering sales contracts
2. Demand status
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3. Salary evidence
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5. Qualification
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
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10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
- Critical Skills List · Planned
- QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Planned
- Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Planned
- SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Planned