Country Market Manager, Tanzania at Greenlight Planet, Inc.

Reporting to: Sales Director- East and Southern Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya.

The Role:

The Country Market Manager- Tanzania will design and drive sales and distribution strategies to support the unique combination of relevant channels and regions in the market. 

Key responsibilities for the role include:

• Establishing and managing channel partner networks for Sun King products
• Developing new business : prospecting, qualifying and closing new channel partners
• Delivery of annual revenue and unit sales targets
• Identifying key resources needed to execute the right sales and distribution strategy, including hiring and managing field sales staff, managing budgets for market activations and channel incentives to meet sales targets. 
• Managing client relationships through all phases of the sales cycle
• Providing a consultative solutions-based sales process to prospects
• Conducting one-on-one and group sales and training presentations
• Managing and growing existing accounts within the territory
• Co-ordination with the head office for all technical, commercial, administrative and legal assistance.

The ideal candidate:

• Has a college/university degree and at least 6-10 years of sales and business development experience in Tanzania working with channel networks.
• Has experience building and executing a sales and distribution strategy for consumer durables or FMCG products.
• Has a strong entrepreneurial streak, is innovative and has experience building market relevant sales and distribution models for new brands and/or product categories 
• Has a strong record of meeting revenue targets and experience growing new business lines
• Is entrepreneurial and excited about the opportunity to creatively build effective, non-traditional sales channels in a nascent product category
• Is fluent in Swahili and English, both written and spoken
• Is passionate about his/her work and driven by Greenlight’s social mission of bringing innovative, renewable energy and life-enhancing products to African markets
• Is comfortable working independently and remotely in a lean environment
• Likes getting hands on to figure out how to grow a high-potential business
• Is a natural people-person, one that thrives off of building strong relationships both within the organization and externally
• Is willing to spend 40-50% of his/her time on the road interacting with partners, resellers and customers

We are looking for someone that is excited about the prospect of building and running an effective sales organization to support aggressive growth of the Sun King brand in Tanzania.  If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you. 

Greenlight Planet offers a competitive salary, a fun, supportive work environment and opportunities for continued professional growth within a fast-growing global enterprise. 

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