Area Sales Manager - Uasin Gishu at Sistema Biobolsa

Who is the Area Sales Manager at Sistema.bio?

Reporting to the Regional Sales Manager, you will be responsible for recruiting, training, coaching and managing a team of up to 15 sales agents and promoters to meet the hub sales targets through quality sales and maintaining healthy loan portfolios.

You’ll be in charge of:

• Achieving and surpassing sales targets of Sistema.bio products.
• Recruiting, training, coaching & managing a field-based team of promoters and sales agents.
• Building market demand for Sistema.bio products across the assigned Hub through participating in key events.
• Building networks with key stakeholders at the local level (government, farmers, cooperatives etc.).
• Coordinating with teams across departments to meet the company’s goals.
• Sharing stories from the field to share with Farmers and other potential clients.
• Maintaining excellence in Customer Service with our existing and new clients.
• Leading weekly structured meetings for your team and fostering team spirit.
• Recording their inputs weekly to lead them to success.
• Recruit and maintain Gender Balanced Teams.

More about YOU

• You have 3-5 years’ sales experience in rural selling and hitting targets in related fields like solar, Agri-inputs and regenerative technologies- a record of success
• You excel at recruiting and coaching a team of 10+ direct reports towards Growth & Success.
• You have worked and sold to farmers before and are passionate about improving their lives, while maintaining a close network of relationships (leads) and satisfied existing clients.
• Proficient with data entry and have basic computing skills (MS office)
• You are honest, hardworking, self-motivated and coachable
• You have a valid driving license

Women are strongly encouraged to apply!

What it is like to work at Sistema.bio

• Passion and purpose: working at Sistema.bio, you’ll be able to work with a very passionate team and have a real social and environmental impact every day
• A growing team with growing opportunities: bio plans to double in the coming years. This growth is opening new roles, new countries, new departments that can keep offering new opportunities for our team’s careers and aspirations.
• Time in the field with the customer: at Sistema.bio, we are passionate about knowing and serving our customers, small and medium-scale farmers. We want you to be able to spend time in the field with them and genuinely understand their problems, their everyday concerns and connect with them.
• We care about your career progression: we have a strong culture of training and investing in developing our people. As a Sistema.bio employee, you’ll have weekly check-ins with your manager, access to training programs and clear tracking of your performance twice a year. 
• Entrepreneurial culture: Your ideas matter.  We believe in people owning their projects and being able to take responsibility for them.
• Work-life balance: at Sistema.bio, we know you’re at your best when you’re rested and healthy, therefore we give you unlimited holidays, parental leave, pay for your health protection and give you options to work remotely when needed.
• Gender Equality: Sistema.bio is committed to gender equality in the workplace. Thanks to our Gender policies and efforts women represent 57% of the Global team for example, and 27% of our overall workforce. We have flexible hours and expressing spaces for lactating mothers.

Location, travel and start date

• Location is Uasin Gishu
• Traveling to within Uasin Gishu County
• Starting as soon as possible