Job Overview: We are seeking a mature, sophisticated, and experienced sales executive to grow their sales of Kuni Safi briquettes.
This position is well suited to someone with extensive institutional sales experience and a professional network.
Sales executives will work mostly in the field, with office work limited to customer phone calls and reporting.
The ideal candidate should have a strong track record of meeting sales targets and be highly motivated, target-driven, and a persuasive negotiator.
The ideal candidate should have a strong track record of meeting sales targets and be highly motivated, target-driven, and a persuasive negotiator.
Job Duties & Responsibilities:
Generate leads and cold-call leads provided by company; educate potential customers about Kuni Safi.
Generate leads and cold-call leads provided by company; educate potential customers about Kuni Safi.
- Identify schools, restaurants, hotels, and hospitals with large consumption of firewood.
- Contact potential institutional customers by phone, email, or visit.
- Perform simple demonstrations of Kuni Safi briquettes (with assistance from Kuni Safi staff)
Actively solicit orders with a starting target of 20+ tonnes per month (5-15 institutional customers).
- Negotiate purchase orders according to pricing requirements.
- Ensure that all institutional customers understand the terms of the agreement and payment expectations.
- Secure orders and communicate all orders received to the company.
- Assist in the collection of payment as necessary.
Maintain thorough communication with Acacia Innovations staff and potential customers.
- Track all potential customers and closed deals on the templates provided by Acacia Innovations.
- Respond in a timely manner to all phone calls within 12 hours and emails within 24 hours.
Contribute to sales strategy and develop new sales channels.
- Recommend improvements to the sales strategy and process to the CEO.
- Exercise creativity in the sales process to improve your conversion rate.
Qualifications Needed:
- Strong track record in sales- demonstrable results of meeting 80-100% of sales goals per month, as confirmed by your references
- 5+ years of experience selling to large institutions, ideally schools and/or hotels
- Existing professional network of school/restaurant/hotel owners and administrators
- Excellent at sales mathematics and comfortable discussing pricing and cost savings
- High confident and presentable
- Strong and persuasive negotiator
- Able to work independently; highly motivated
- Target-driven; able to realistically set and meet goals
- Excited to work for a start-up and contribute to building a new sales strategy
- Excellent and professional verbal and written communication abilities
- Competent at basic computer and internet programs including Google Drive, Microsoft Word and Excel
- Interest in improving people’s lives and our environment
- Fluent in English and Kiswahili
- Valid driver’s license; own car preferred but not required
What We Offer:
- Excellent prospects for career growth with a high-potential start-up
- Flexible working hours and locations
- An opportunity to create professional contacts and interact with high-level decision makers
- A chance to make a positive impact while generating significant income
Apply
Send your Cover Letter and detailed CV to apply@jobs.dumaworks.com marking the subject as “3080”, Your Full name & Phone number e.g. 3080 Barack Obama, +2547xxxxxxxx. If you don’t follow these instructions, your application will not go through.
Deadline for receiving applications: Friday, 13 October 2017
N.B.* You will receive a confirmation email and an alert to take a basic screening test over SMS or online. The email with the test may not arrive immediately. Please be patient. The email/SMS test will typically be 5-8 questions to help us understand your background. Regular SMS rates apply to the test.
If you apply and don’t meet these minimum qualifications, we won’t be able to forward your application to the employer.
Send your Cover Letter and detailed CV to apply@jobs.dumaworks.com marking the subject as “3080”, Your Full name & Phone number e.g. 3080 Barack Obama, +2547xxxxxxxx. If you don’t follow these instructions, your application will not go through.
Deadline for receiving applications: Friday, 13 October 2017
N.B.* You will receive a confirmation email and an alert to take a basic screening test over SMS or online. The email with the test may not arrive immediately. Please be patient. The email/SMS test will typically be 5-8 questions to help us understand your background. Regular SMS rates apply to the test.
If you apply and don’t meet these minimum qualifications, we won’t be able to forward your application to the employer.
