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  • Posted: Aug 30, 2022
    Deadline: Oct 31, 2022
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    Sanergy is an award-winning social venture that builds healthy, prosperous communities by making hygienic sanitation accessible and affordable in Africa’s urban informal settlements. Our systems-based approach to solving the sanitation crisis involves five key steps: we build a dense network of franchised micro-entrepreneurs, who operate low-cost, high...
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    Associate Director - Sales

    About the role

    We are hiring an Associate Sales Director under our Farm Star brand, where we sell and market our Evergrow Organic Fertilizers, Kuzapro Insect Based Animal Protein, and Evermoto biomass briquettes. The Associate Director will have full responsibility for product sales by providing strategic leadership and operational oversight to the Farm Star Country Sales teams, the Sales & Marketing Excellence team and the Sales Enablement team.

    Duties and Responsibilities

    • Full P&L responsibility on the Farm Star business, and all products marketed under the Farm Star brand. 
    • Offer strategic oversight and execution to grow the reseller/agro vet sales channel for Evergrow Organic fertilizer. Scale up the sales of the leading organic fertilizer brand in Kenya by 5x in the next 18 months. 
    • Lead strategy generation and execution to scale up direct sales of Evergrow Organic fertilizer and Evergrow Gold Ecocert certified organic fertilizer to middle, large, corporate farms and distribution partners in East Africa. 
    • Lead the commercial growth of the Insect protein brand, Kuzapro. Achieve >5x growth in sales to feed millers, agro vets and farmers in the next 18 months. 
    • Secure commercial partnerships and distribution partners to enable the exponential growth of our products. 
    • Operationalize and commercialize new product variants to increase margin and expand the market.
    • Liaise with the R&D and Innovation teams to operationalize and commercialize product variants. 
    • Provide oversight to the team to build data systems that lead to data/evidence-based performance management and decision making. 
    • Support the marketing teams to implement cost-effective interventions to significantly improve brand recognition across Kenya. 
    • Lead the sales enablement team to build and implement standardization across the sales and marketing teams so as to achieve repeatable and scalable performance and results. 

    Qualifications

    • Degree or higher level education in an Agricultural related course
    • Previous experience in significantly scaling up agri input sales 
    • >10 years’ experience in consultative B2B selling
    • >10 years’ experience in building and managing sales teams, preferably in direct sales with a clear track record of high performance.
    • Experience in managing managers. 
    • Aptitude for numbers and data-driven decision-making
    • Knowledge of agricultural inputs market for small and medium-scale farmers preferred or ability to learn technical knowledge quickly
    • Coachable – a desire to learn, constantly improve, and act on feedback
    • A valid driving Licence

    Job Location

    Willingness to work outside of Nairobi and travel to support the sales team approx. 60% of the time.

    is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. All qualified persons are encouraged to apply.

    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV to: using the position as subject of email.

    Interested and qualified? Go to Sanergy on odoo.saner.gy to apply

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