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Date Posted: 07/05/2012
Country Name: Uganda
State/Province: Kampala
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Summary:
Impact Carbon is seeking a Sales Manager to establish and grow a sales team to sell high efficiency cookstoves, water purifiers, and other household energy products in Uganda. This will be a highly entrepreneurial position that will require both sales and management experience by an individual that is passionate about increasing the access of healthy and environmentally friendly products across Uganda. The Sales Manager will oversee setting up and staffing a sales team and will report directly to the Uganda Country Manager.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Develop and execute a countrywide sales strategy to increase access to improved cookstoves and water purifiers through direct sales, retail distributors, and partnerships with SACCOs and other NGOs.• Execute surveying, data collection, and market analysis tasks to determine product preferences and proper geographically targeting for pilot sales programs
- Hire and manage a dynamic sales team that can successfully test, pilot, and sell a variety of household energy products
- Work the Uganda Country Manager to develop a marketing and branding strategy to increase consumer knowledge and uptake of products
- Manage the financial, operational, and logistical components of selling consumer goods, including stringent documentation for carbon financial reporting
Qualifications and Experience:
- Degree in business (marketing, accounting, finance) or economics
- 3‐5+ years of sales experience with a minimum of 1 year as the manager of a sales team; experience designing and leading training programs a plus
- Fluency in both written and spoken English
- Strong business and sales experience with excellent quantitative and analytical skills
- History of managing new and growing programs
- Familiarity with designing and conducting consumer research or market analysis programs or a background in social science research preferred
- Experience selling cookstoves, water purification devices, or other household energy goods preferred
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