Business Development Manager at Sun King (Formerly Greenlight Planet)

The Role: The Business Development Manager, West and Central Africa will be responsible for managing and expanding the overall book of business for Greenlight Planet’s Sun King line of solar home lighting solutions in Francophone West and Central Africa.

Key responsibilities for the role include:

• Developing new distribution channels
• Driving growth of existing channels
• Developing and executing marketing campaigns to ensure massive penetration of Greenlight Planet’s products in the region.

The ideal candidate:

• Has a college degree and at least 5-7 years of sales and business development experience in West Africa working with product distribution catering to mass market consumers
• 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 French 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 West and Central 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 country-level distribution partners, resellers, customers and partners