Associate Business Development at Sun King (Formerly Greenlight Planet)

The Role

The role is focused on expanding Greenlight Planet’s financial services business partnerships that serve rural markets in Africa, through research, reach-out and follow-up meetings. The candidate will work with the Global Partnerships team with a database of potential financial services partners in Africa that comprise existing, dormant and new business partners. It will require one’s involvement in all aspects of end-to-end business development process including research to build the database further, warm calling to CEOs/Directors of prospective organizations, reaching out through LinkedIn, follow up through mails & calls, in-person meetings and facilitating partner contract closures.

Key responsibilities for the role include

• Recruitment of staff across a range of professional levels from associates to senior team leaders within defined Service Level Agreements and budgets.
• Engage suitable financial services companies with rural distribution network as eventual partners
• Make warm calls to CEOs/Directors of these companies, followed by in-person meetings, to introduce Greenlight Planet and Sun King products
• Help Operations team finalize operational model customized to the financial services partner
• Follow up with prospects through call and e-mails to capture the progress status
• Upkeep of the business development database, ensuring a high level of accuracy
• Design and organize conferences, events & workshops to engage with pipeline partners
• Assist in facilitation of partnership contract closures

The ideal candidate

• Is excited about joining a fast growing, entrepreneurial and innovative environment with an opportunity to build teams, local HR practices and policies
• Excellent command on English (speaking and writing)
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PPT)
• Practical experience in Google Spreadsheets and LinkedIn
• Confident, Self-driven with go-getter approach as the position requires follow up with CXO level people
• Adaptive and learning nature, as the position requires keeping updated with changes in various industries
• Ability to work with minimum supervision and take ownership of assigned tasks

We are looking for someone who is driven, passionate and excited about the opportunity to bring honest, affordable, energy to homes in Africa. 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.