Living Goods Regional Direct Sales Manager - Kenya
A Business that Changes Lives… Including Yours
What is Living Goods?
What is Living Goods?
Do you have serious
business skills and want to use them to make a difference not just make a
living? Are you just looking for a change, or are you looking for the
chance to changes millions of lives for the better, including yours? If
your answer is ‘yes’, read on.
At Living Goods we believe the poor deserve better health, a better deal, and a chance at a better life.
Living Goods supports
networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching
families how to improve their health and wealth, and selling low-cost,
life-changing products like essential medicines, fortified foods,
money-saving cook stoves, and solar lights.
Living Goods seeks
nothing less than a disruptive reinvention of distribution in the
developing world, through networks of franchised micro entrepreneurs who
leverage LG’s brand, buying power and powerful mobile marketing tools
to deliver vital products, at accessible prices, to the people who need
them most.
By combining the best
practices from the worlds of micro-enterprise, franchising and public
health, Living Goods is creating a fully sustainable system to improve
the health and wealth of the world’s poor.
Position Overview
Living Goods is expanding into Kenya in 2013 with the goal of building a national network of high-impact entrepreneurs.
We are recruiting a full
new team to lead this effort including up to 5 regional Sales Managers.
The Regional Sales Managers will each oversee a Living Goods Branch
Store that supports hundreds of independent Living Goods direct sales
agents.
Success in this role
means recruiting a large number of exceptional LG agents for each
branch, providing effective sales coaching including working in the
field alongside LG agents every week, maintaining accurate records,
contributing innovative ideas to improve sales and impacts, and
exceeding aggressive sales, profit and social impact targets. Living
Goods believes and invests in the smartest mobile tools for driving
sales and managing sales force effectiveness.
Living Goods is a
fast-paced, mission-driven and business-minded organization. This is
your chance to join and shape a successful fast growing, multi-national
organization at a time of exceptional opportunities for professional
growth.
Living Goods has been featured in The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The Economist, and The Huffington Post, read more here: www.livinggoods.org/news-media/news/
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Minimum of 4 years of sales experience preferably in direct selling, retail or wholesale of consumer packaged goods. Experience in recruiting and managing sales agents. Proven track record of exceeding sales and profit targets.
- Strong math and analytical skills. Well versed in MS Excel.
- Outstanding verbal communications
- Willingness to be in the field, hands-on with LG’s sales force and clients
- Regional sales managers will be based in major trade hubs across Kenya and require in country travel 40-60% of most months.
Compensation
- A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health, paid time off, and a significant performance bonus opportunity.
- The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for others.
Life at Living Goods
Living Goods is aiming to
make game-changing, landscape-shifting changes that dramatically
improve the lives of the poor. We think big, but we operate small and
nimble. At LG, you will have the chance to use your creativity and work
with your teammates to conceive and test new ideas every day.
If you work well in a
dynamic, highly collaborative culture, if you set high standards for
yourself and your colleagues, if you know how to fail fast and learn
fast, if you meet challenges with calm determination and a sense of
humor, you will be happy at Living Goods. See www.livinggoods.org/principles.
Living Goods head office sits in California, USA where some of the most successful companies in the world were born – including Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, and Google. Living Goods is financed by some of the most successful business people and investors in world including the founder of eBay – an $11 billion global platform that empowers millions of small businesses around the world.
How to Apply
Living Goods head office sits in California, USA where some of the most successful companies in the world were born – including Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, and Google. Living Goods is financed by some of the most successful business people and investors in world including the founder of eBay – an $11 billion global platform that empowers millions of small businesses around the world.
How to Apply
Please submit a single
file with resume/CV and cover letter describing your interest,
qualifications, and how you learned of the position to
jobs@livinggoods.org.
Please type “Kenya Regional Sales Manager – [Last Name]” in the subject line.
New opportunities at Living Goods get filled quickly.
New opportunities at Living Goods get filled quickly.
Apply today!
For more information about Living Goods, please visit: www.livinggoods.org
For more information about Living Goods, please visit: www.livinggoods.org
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