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  • Posted: Feb 18, 2026
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    Head of East Africa Expansion

    We are searching for a determined and experienced business leader who thrives in a dynamic environment and dedicates themselves to sales excellence. Seize this chance to make an impact and propel your career forward with a team that values your unique contributions.

    Your responsibilities

    • Building and maintaining strong relationships with key client stakeholders at senior and mid‑management levels.
    • Leading cross‑functional collaboration across territories and departments, including marketing, account management, and operations, to support sales initiatives and ensure exceptional customer service.
    • Monitoring market trends, competitive landscapes, and economic indicators to inform pricing decisions, product mix, and sales approaches.
    • Setting annual sales targets, sales quotas, and gross‑profit plans; managing forecasting, pipeline development, and performance tracking.
    • Developing, and coaching a high‑performing sales team while fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
    • Managing national sales operations, including resource planning, team assignments, and performance management.
    • Driving adoption of sales and marketing automation platforms and ensuring consistent sales processes and data quality.
    • Overseeing reporting and analytics to provide insights on demand generation, pipeline health, conversion metrics, market segmentation, and win/loss performance.
    • Defining and enforcing database quality standards and leading data improvement initiatives across sales and marketing.
    • Work collaboratively with the sales and marketing teams and fosters a culture of continuous process improvement
    • Championing the company’s values, offerings, and partnerships through clear communication and stakeholder engagement.
    • Analyse pipeline and lead data, deliver periodic reporting to the sales and marketing teams providing key business insights: typical reporting relates to Demand Generation, Pipeline Forecast and Trends, Conversion Rates, Target Account, Market Segmentation, Win/Loss, Age.
    • Report on key KPIs related to the lead and the opportunity waterfall in order to implement a consistent closed loop between marketing and sales.
    • Through reporting and analytics, validate the quality of the lead and pipeline data and provide guidance to improve the overall data quality.

    Skills, capabilities & experience we're looking for

    • Understand the impact of operational initiatives from a sales or marketing perspective.
    • Prepare reports and use appropriate mode of communication.
    • Proficiency at analyzing data, building reporting, and making strategic recommendations based on data and trends.
    • Manage multiple projects and work to tight deadlines.
    • Proven success track record working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
    • Keen business sense, with the ability to find creative business-oriented solutions to problems.
    • Proven communication and presentation skills.
    • Manage client relationships with seasoned negotiation skills.
    • Keep the process excellence and data management.
    • Previous business management experience in the region, primarily markets such as Uganda, Tanzania & Horn of Africa
    • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or a relevant field.
    • Minimum 5 years’ experience in a similar role or Sales Leadership role

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    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Reckitt Benckiser on careers.reckitt.com to apply

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