Key responsibilities for the role include:
Work closely with incoming partners to understand their organization and develop business models and execution plans
Pre-sales: Serve as the main implementation point of contact in pre-sales conversations, providing execution insight and guidance
Post-sales / pre-launch: once a partner is ready to implement PAYG offering, work directly with stakeholders across their organization to finalize implementation details and schedules. Work with partner’s management to gain buy-in for plans and solve pre-launch execution issues. Set implementation schedules and review them frequently with partners, helping to mitigate implementation delays to ensure on-time launch
Post-launch guidance: conduct routine reviews with partner’s leadership team to review progress on sales and operational results, ensuring partners are able to meet sales, customer and repayment objectives. Proactively identify execution issues and work with partner’s teams to overcome them. Provide on-going support to help partners improve their PAYG business profitability and efficiency, including introducing best practices, new products and new procedures
Lead continuous on-going engagement by providing/coordination or facilitating training & on-ground activations, joint marketing efforts, field visits, workshops & learning sessions & superior after sales services.
Build strong subject matter expertize for pay-as-you-go solar products sales & engagements as well as build a team that can lead the business to scale quickly and achieve exponential growth year over year.
The ideal candidate:
Post-graduate degree in Sales/Business management from an institute of repute.
Has 6+ years’ experience in relevant areas such as Key account management, Bulk/Partnership Sales, Financial and/or product sales. (preferred Pay-As-you-Go sales of solar products);
Experience in product management with a Pay As You Go provider, Telecom or Financial services; account management in an enterprise technology business
Well-networked individual with entrepreneurial energy and passion to develop large businesses from grounds-up. Able to build strong teams and lead them to deliver superior performance.
Able to effectively work cross-functionally across several geographies and regions
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Is comfortable traveling 15+ days each month
We are looking for someone who is driven, passionate and excited about the opportunity to bring honest, affordable, energy to homes in Africa. If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.
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