Assistant Branch Manager Job at Living Goods  in Kariobangi Nairobi Kenya 25th June 2014

 

Living Goods is seeking a driven, entrepreneurial-minded Assistant Branch Manager for the Kariobangi Branch. 
Reporting to the Branch Manager, the Assistant Branch Manager will ensure that Living Goods meets its sales, recruitment, profitability and impact targets both through direct branch operations and through alternative distribution channels.  
Living Goods is creating disruptive change through empowering micro-entrepreneurs to deliver vital products at accessible prices to the people who need them most.

We’re searching for an individual who is passionate about enabling micro-entrepreneurs to be successful through new and innovative ways. 

You are a great fit for this role if you are a highly effective, engaged and motivated team member who is committed to delivering results.

This position is based in the Living Goods Kariobangi Office with 20-40% travel to other locations in Kenya to explore and develop Living Goods’ business.

Responsibilities

  • Drive Sales: Work as a member of the Branch team to ensure all agents meet or exceed all sales targets through observing market trends and adapting sales tactics to fluctuations, and implementing marketing and promotional efforts to support agent goals. Build strong community relations that increase sales and trust of Living Goods products.
  • Collaborate with Partners: Identify and establish relations with corporate sales leads, credit groups, and other new opportunities for new distribution channels (other organizations, MFIs, franchises, specialist distributors and other opportunities for direct sales.)
  • Support Branch Operations: Assist Branch Manager in ensuring that branch operations are running smoothly, including assisting with inventory and financial operations, as well as testing and promoting new products.
  • Recruit, Support and Motivate Agents: Recruit, train and manage direct sales agents to be high performers through building agent capacity and ensuring all agents are maintaining target inventory levels month to month.
  • Collaborate with the Kenya Office: Pilot new methods and programs designed by colleagues in the Sales Innovation Team to increase productivity and impact, while providing feedback from the field in order to assist countrywide strategies in driving sales.
Qualifications
  • Degree in Business or related field.
  • 3-5 years experience with exceptional track record in sales or micro-finance or multi-level marketing.
  • Experience managing products or inventory.
  • Experience managing a sales team or field force.
  • Entrepreneurial spirit and drive for results.
  • Exceptional natural teacher, strong interpersonal skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communications skills in English and Kiswahili.
Compensation: A highly competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity.  
The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.

What is Living Goods?

Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro-entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook stoves, and solar lights.

Living Goods seeks nothing less than a disruptive reinvention of distribution in emerging markets, through networks of franchised micro-entrepreneurs who leverage Living Goods’ brand, buying power and mobile marketing tools to deliver vital products at accessible prices to the people who need them most. 
By combining the best practices from the worlds of micro-enterprise, franchising and public health, Living Goods is creating a fully sustainable system to improve the health, and wealth, of underserved communities.

Living Goods has been featured in The New York Times, NBC News, The Economist, and The Huffington Post. Check out these articles and more on our press page.

Life at Living Goods

Living Goods is aiming to make disruptive changes, dramatically improving the lives of underserved communities. We think big, but we operate small and nimble. 

At Living Goods, you will have the chance to use your creativity and work with your teammates to conceive and test new ideas every day. 
If you work well in a dynamic, highly collaborative culture, if you set high standards for yourself and your colleagues, if you know how to fail fast and learn fast, if you meet challenges with calm determination and a sense of humor, you willthrive at Living Goods. See www.livinggoods.org/principles.
 
How to Apply
 



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