Area Business Manager, Balaka - Malawi
Sun King
Sales & Business Development
Malawi
Posted on Nov 15, 2024
Location: Balaka - Malawi
The team you would join: Sun King EasyBuy
The EasyBuy Direct Sales team is the market facing arm of Sun King’s pay-as-you-go (PAYG) direct to consumer sales business. The Easy Buy Direct Sales team is in charge of recruiting, managing, and guiding the company’s network of thousands of commission sales agents, called “Energy Officers” that promote and sell Sun King’s PAYG solar solutions and provide customer ongoing service in their local territories. Sales management on Sun King’s EasyBuy Direct sales team ensures that the company meets its sales, collections, and repayment targets and for providing fair, respectful, customer-centered service to Sun King customers.
Through the EasyBuy PAYG solar business model, customers can purchase a Sun King solar home solution by making a small down-payment up front and paying the remaining balance through a series of installments over a pre-arranged period of time.
- Department
- EasyBuy Direct Sales
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Malawi
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Reporting To
- Regional Business Manager
What you would be expected to do:
- Drive sales, collections, and oversee direct distribution of Sun King™ products sold on a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) basis through a network of sales agents known as "Field Sales Executives (FSEs).
- Pursue multiple avenues to find and recruit FSEs to represent and sell Sun King EasyBuy products.
- Monitor productivity, and manage the performance of FSEs, and ensure assigned tasks are fulfilled.
- Provide ongoing training to the FSEs on several aspects of the business such as sales, collections, customer service, product features and functionality, and inventory management.
- Conduct daily market visits and resolve issues faced by the FSEs and customers.
- Ensure FSEs provide strong customer through activities such as: prospecting and sale initiation conversations, product installation, customer education on how to make payments, and after-sales warranty issues.
- Adapt, comply with, and ensure adherence to sales policies and processes within the team.
- Keep abreast of market trends and expansion.
You might be a strong candidate if you:
- hold a degree or diploma in a business related field or have a minimum of two years working in a field sales role in the FMCG, microfinance, banking or telecom industries;
- are passionate about positively impacting the lives of rural consumers;
- are a able to work in a team with great interactive skills to mentor your team to deliver on expectations.
- have proficient skills in Microsoft Office (Ms Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
What we offer (in addition to compensation and statutory benefits):
- A platform for professional growth in a rapidly expanding, high-impact sector.
- Immerse in a collaborative culture, energized by employees of Sun King who are collectively motivated by fostering a transformative, sustainable venture.
- A genuinely global environment: Engage and learn alongside a diverse group from varied geographies and backgrounds.
- Tailored learning pathways through the Sun King Center for Leadership to elevate your leadership and managerial capabilities.
About Sun King
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection. Sun King has connected more than 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding over 200,000 homes each month.
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.11 a day via mobile money or cash.
Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright. To date, our Sun King solar products have saved customers more than $4 billion cumulatively.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
From cost-effective solar systems that provide home lighting and phone charging to robust solar inverters that can power high-energy appliances such as laptops, computers, refrigerators, and more, effectively acting as a full stand-in for grid power, Sun King’s products cater to a wide range of income segments and energy needs. Leveraging its proven distribution network and brand, Sun King is expanding its range of products and services to encompass clean cooking, electric mobility, entertainment, and more, aiming to address the needs of our underserved customers.
Sun King employs 2,800 full-time staff in 12 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families.
Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 44% of Sun King’s workforce.
