Sun King™ Brand Manager - Tanzania
Greenlight Planet is looking for driven, passionate, socially minded sales professionals to join its Business Development team in Tanzania. We have built distribution partnerships with a few established organizations to introduce Sun King™ to Tanzanian households. Their existing, unique channels enable us to reach millions of off-grid consumers, and we work closely with these partners to develop and execute marketing campaigns and identify new prospective channel partners to effectively reach off-grid homes.
At the same time, we are building the Sun King™ brand as a symbol of extraordinary value for affordable, high quality, versatile, durable user-friendly products.
The Brand Manager will build new Sun King™ sales opportunities for our partners and stimulate Sun King™ brand awareness in Tanzania. Together with our distribution partners, the Sun King™ Brand Manager will develop strategies and execute marketing initiatives to make sure every home in Tanzania knows and is drawn to the Sun King™ brand.
The Brand Manager will report to Greenlight Planet’s Global Partnership Advisor, based in Nairobi, Kenya.
The Sun King™ Brand Manager´s role includes:
- Identifying new (wholesale) channel partners and other sales opportunities
- Planning, co-executing, and following-up on marketing & channel building activities of Sun King™partners
- Working closely with existing Sun King™ channel partners and communicating frequently between the Global Partnerships office in Kenya and partners in Tanzania.
- Building Sun King™ brand awareness
Desired Skills & Experience
The ideal Sun King™ Brand Manager:
- Has at least a B.A. in sales, marketing, business development or a related field
- Has a minimum of 2 years experience, preferably in an FMCG or consumer durables setting
- Has the ability to understand the (rural) market environment for Sun King products and independently assess opportunities to strategically accelerate brand and channel development in Tanzania
- Is passionate about bringing innovative renewable energy and life-enhancing products to BoP markets
- Has an energetic, convincing and ‘can-do’ attitude and the ability to work independently and proactively
- Enjoys being out in the countryside and doesn´t mind to work in circumstances with basic facilities
- Is excited about joining a young fast-growing international company
- Is fluent in English and Kiswahili and has good software command (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
Greenlight Planet offers a competitive salary, a fun, supportive work environment and opportunities for continued professional growth within a fast-growing global enterprise. If this sounds like your kind of place, please apply online on http://greenlightplanet.com/careers#op-22002-sun-king-brand-manager-tanzania
Company Description
1,6 billion people use dangerous and expensive kerosene lanterns for light at night. We have a better way.
We’re making Greenlight Planet the best place to work, ever. We’re an organization of passionate professionals focused on empowering millions of Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) families with simple, smart, honest technology and true market innovation. We’re passionate about changing the world on an unprecedented scale, working with fantastically talented teammates to tackle the world’s most challenging problems and having fun, as a team, while doing it.
If this sounds like your kind of company, keep reading.
Greenlight Planet’s mission is to replace the dirty, dangerous and expensive kerosene lanterns used by 1.6 billion off-grid people in Asia and Africa. Our products are designed from the ground up to meet the needs of price-sensitive off-grid consumers.
Life for families change once Sun King™ products enter the home: children can study at night, breadwinners can extend their income earning hours, and carcinogenic fumes are eliminated. Within months of displaced kerosene consumption, Sun Kings™ have entirely paid for itself and families enjoy a net savings for years and years.
We’re developing truly innovative distribution, financial and partnership models to reach even the most isolated, price-sensitive families around the globe. And we are growing quickly.
Sun King™ Brand Manager - Tanzania
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