Job Title: Â Sales & Pilot Manager
Organisation: PowerUP
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About the Company:
PowerUP is a cleantech company developing electric appliances that reduce carbon emissions while delivering income and health benefits to our customers in Low and Middle-Income countries. Our products are designed to tap into dual revenue streams: small incremental payments from our customers, and payments for emissions reductions from global ER buyers. As a product design-oriented company with a deep understanding of how to grow markets by leveraging carbon finance, we seek to become the leading provider of emissions-reducing products and technology to consumers in Low and Middle-Income Countries. Our first product is a line of pay-as-you-go electric pressure cooker products designed specifically for sub-Saharan African markets.
Job Summary:   The Sales & Pilot Manager will manage the field activities in PowerUP to ensure sales and pilot targets are met. They will build and manage a sales team to find suitable customers and support them on their journey of electric cooking even beyond the time of sales. They will execute pilots to better understand our customers and ensure they fully adopt our e-cooking solutions, starting with electric pressure cookers (EPCs). Key deliverables include executing pilot plans based on their design, reaching product utilization targets, and hitting sales targets.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Design, execute and iterate on sales pilots
- Collaborate with commercial and product teams to implement and iterate on pilots with the field team to increase units sold and product utilization
- Trial different behavior change techniques to increase product usage, including in-person and digital trainings, nudges, incentives and rewards
- Analyze the real-time and past data to improve performance levels
- Own sales performance
- Set sales goals, manage performance to goals, and adjust goals as needed
- Provide detailed and accurate sales forecasts
- Create a sales plan and execute to ensure high quality sales
Manage sales team
- Recruit, hire, and train field agents
- Assess team processes and procedures, identify opportunities for improvement, and implement them
- Develop team targets and manage the commercial budget
- Manage individual and team performance to ensure pilots are performed as designed and sales quotas are met
- Assess individual performance through observation and measurement, and suggest corrective actions as needed
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Two years of experience of running pilots (example: pilots regarding price levels, loan repayment, customer satisfaction, referrals, etc…)
- Minimum of 5 years of experience of sales of last mile products in the field
- Experience in setting up direct distribution channels, hiring, and supervising sales teams
- Data analytics and results-oriented skills. Strong excel modeling is an added advantage
- Excellent team leadership skills
- University degree in a related field
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested applicants should apply online at the link below.
Click Here
For more of the latest jobs, please visit https://www.ugashare.com or find us on our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/Ugashare
Related Jobs
Job Title:Â Â Relationship Officer – Sales (Entry Level Jobs) Organisation:Â Bank…
Job Title: Â General Manager (GM) Organisation:Â NFT Consult Limited Duty Station:…
Job Title:Â Performance Marketing Specialist Organisation:Â Badili Africa Duty Station:Â Â Kampala, Uganda…
Job Title:  Audit Senior  Organisation: SAPI & Associates Duty…
Job Title:Â Â Â Â Sales Executive – Building & Construction Chemicals (Fresher Jobs)…
Job Title:  Warehouse Manager  Organisation: Eriner Marine Equipment Limited…