Associate Director – Sales job at Sanergy
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Associate Director – Sales

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Professional Services , Category: Sales & Retail ]

Jobs at:

Sanergy

Deadline of this Job:
31 October 2022  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, August 30, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
Associate Director – Sales

About the role
We are hiring an Associate Sales Director under our Farm Star brand, where we sell and market our Evergrow Organic Fertilizers, Kuzapro Insect Based Animal Protein, and Evermoto biomass briquettes. The Associate Director will have full responsibility for product sales by providing strategic leadership and operational oversight to the Farm Star Country Sales teams, the Sales & Marketing Excellence team and the Sales Enablement team.

Duties and Responsibilities
• Full P&L responsibility on the Farm Star business, and all products marketed under the Farm Star brand.
• Offer strategic oversight and execution to grow the reseller/agro vet sales channel for Evergrow Organic fertilizer. Scale up the sales of the leading organic fertilizer brand in Kenya by 5x in the next 18 months.
• Lead strategy generation and execution to scale up direct sales of Evergrow Organic fertilizer and Evergrow Gold Ecocert certified organic fertilizer to middle, large, corporate farms and distribution partners in East Africa.
• Lead the commercial growth of the Insect protein brand, Kuzapro. Achieve >5x growth in sales to feed millers, agro vets and farmers in the next 18 months.
• Secure commercial partnerships and distribution partners to enable the exponential growth of our products.
• Operationalize and commercialize new product variants to increase margin and expand the market.
• Liaise with the R&D and Innovation teams to operationalize and commercialize product variants.
• Provide oversight to the team to build data systems that lead to data/evidence-based performance management and decision making.
• Support the marketing teams to implement cost-effective interventions to significantly improve brand recognition across Kenya.
• Lead the sales enablement team to build and implement standardization across the sales and marketing teams so as to achieve repeatable and scalable performance and results.

Qualifications
• Degree or higher level education in an Agricultural related course
• Previous experience in significantly scaling up agri input sales
• >10 years’ experience in consultative B2B selling
• >10 years’ experience in building and managing sales teams, preferably in direct sales with a clear track record of high performance.
• Experience in managing managers.
• Aptitude for numbers and data-driven decision-making
• Knowledge of agricultural inputs market for small and medium-scale farmers preferred or ability to learn technical knowledge quickly
• Coachable – a desire to learn, constantly improve, and act on feedback
• A valid driving Licence

Job Location
Willingness to work outside of Nairobi and travel to support the sales team approx. 60% of the time.
is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. All qualified persons are encouraged to apply.


Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Sales jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 31 October 2022
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 30-08-2022
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 30-08-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 30-08-2066
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