Country Manager Living Goods - Kenya
Living Goods (LG) seeks an energetic and resourceful Country Manager to help navigate the organizations’ inception and growth in Kenya. We are a fast-paced, mission-driven organization with operations in East Africa and ambitions beyond. We are currently building a world-class team committed to achieving our goal of building a sustainable system to defeat the diseases of poverty. The Country Manager will manage a team that oversees a large franchised sales force, a nationwide inventory and logistics system, and that creates strategic work plans for the entire country office. The ideal candidate will be comfortable in a dynamic, start-up environment.
The Country Manager will build and lead a growing management team and will significantly expand the network of franchised entrepreneurs, drive marketing and sales efforts, maximize health impacts, oversee merchandising, inventory and procurement, build vital management systems and deliver insightful analyses and reporting.
Reporting to the Vice Operations, the Country Manager Kenya will be the key member of the Kenyan team.
Desired Skills & Experience
- Ideal candidates must have a minimum of 8 to 10 years of private sector experience in marketing and/or sales management overseeing teams of 10 or more, with a proven track record of exceeding targets; preference to managers with experience at a nationally-recognized consumer brands or direct selling company.
- Strong financial management and analytical skills. Highly proficient in spreadsheets.
- Experience in sourcing/procurement and inventory management preferred.
- Ability to manage multiple initiatives within a dynamic environment, prioritizing both the urgent and important, without compromising productivity.
- Practical experience managing and optimizing performance of front line sales staff.
- Ability to build and maintain excellent working relationships with the local and international team, facilitate feedback and optimize implementation.
- Demonstrated leadership, networking and negotiation skills.
- Strong proficiency using all Microsoft Applications.
Company Description
We believe that the poor are not helpless victims; they are resilient entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers. We empower the poor through our networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro-entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth while selling affordable, high-impact products like simple treatments for malaria and diarrhea, fortified foods, water filters, clean cookstoves, 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 Living Goods’ brand, buying power and 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, wealth, and productivity of the world’s poor.
Read more about our innovative organization as featured in Fast Company, NPR, and TIME Magazine at www.livinggoods.org/news-media/news/
Country Manager Living Goods - Kenya
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