Area Sales Executives - PayGo Phones

Sun King

Sun King

Sales & Business Development

Tanzania

Posted on May 20, 2026
Location: Dar es Salaam

About the role:
The Area Sales Executive – PayGo Phones will be responsible for driving smartphone sales and expanding Sun King’s PayGo Phones business within the assigned area. The successful candidate will manage and support a network of retailers and agents, drive market activations, ensure portfolio quality, and support overall channel performance.
This role requires a highly field-oriented individual with strong sales, relationship management, and execution capabilities.
Department
EasyBuy Direct Sales
Employment Type
Fixed Term Contract
Location
Tanzania
Workplace type
Onsite
Compensation
Sh800,000 - Sh900,000 / month

What you will be expected to do:

1. Agent Recruitment & Onboarding

  • Identify, recruit, and onboard new retailers and ATD Agents within the assigned territory.
  • Train agents on smartphone product knowledge, EasyBuy processes, pricing, repayment structures, and sales procedures.
  • Ensure all newly onboarded agents understand Sun King’s sales and customer service standards.
  • Support agents with onboarding materials, product demonstrations, and activation guidance.

2. Phone Sales & Territory Growth

  • Drive daily, weekly, and monthly smartphone sales targets within the territory.
  • Increase sales volumes across all phone models through active field engagement and retailer support.
  • Monitor agent sales performance and implement action plans for underperforming agents.
  • Ensure agents actively promote PayGo Phones and financing options to customers.
  • Identify new business opportunities and high-potential sales areas within the territory.

3. Portfolio Quality & Collections Support

  • Ensure proper customer registration and PayGo activation processes are followed by all agents.
  • Monitor repayment trends and support agents in reducing default risks.
  • Follow up on repayment issues and assist in resolving customer concerns affecting collections.
  • Coordinate warranty and replacement support processes to improve customer experience and portfolio quality.

4. Trade Activations & Market Development

  • Plan and execute local market activations including roadshows, market storms, and door-to-door campaigns.
  • Work closely with the marketing team to drive brand visibility and customer awareness.
  • Identify strategic locations for temporary sales activations and promotional activities.
  • Support execution of sales campaigns and promotional initiatives within the territory.

5. Agent Engagement & Relationship Management

  • Build and maintain strong working relationships with retailers and ATD Agents.
  • Conduct regular field visits and one-on-one meetings with agents to review performance and resolve operational challenges.
  • Ensure agents maintain adequate stock levels and proper branding visibility at their locations.
  • Motivate and recognise top-performing agents to improve engagement and retention.

6. Reporting & Administration

  • Update daily sales, stock, collections, and field activity trackers accurately.
  • Prepare weekly territory performance reports covering sales performance, active agents, onboarding status, and operational updates.
  • Escalate operational challenges, stock shortages, fraud risks, and repayment concerns to the PayGo Phones Sales Manager.
  • Ensure timely submission of all required reports and documentation.

You might be a strong candidate if you have:

  • Diploma or Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Sales, or a related field.
  • Minimum of 2–3 years’ experience in field sales, FMCG, telecom, mobile devices, microfinance, or related industries.
  • Experience managing agents, retailers, or distribution networks is an added advantage.
  • A strong understanding of smartphone sales and PayGo financing models is preferred.

What Sun King offers

  • Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
  • An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
  • A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
  • Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.

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 built a new kind of energy utility: distributed, green, customer-centric, and affordable. We bring clean, reliable, decentralized energy directly into people’s lives — from solar kits that provide first-time energy access to multi-kilowatt systems that serve both off-grid users and grid-connected customers powering larger homes, schools, hospitals, farms, offices, and light manufacturing.

Already, 25 million homes and businesses rely on Sun King for electricity supply and the appliances and services it enables: lighting, televisions, fans, refrigeration, and smartphones.

Sun King combines energy generation, energy-efficient appliances, installation, and financing into one seamless offering. Think of it as a distributed utility, designed for wherever energy is needed and designed to scale with its users as incomes and energy needs grow.

Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ (PAYG) purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.14 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.

Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 35,000 field agents — over 1 million payments each day. To date, Sun King has extended more than $1.4 billion in PAYG loans to customers.

Sun King began by powering homes and businesses with solar systems delivered through PAYG financing. Now, we’re using the same model to make smartphones and clean cooking equipment affordable: helping households connect to the digital economy and transition from wood-based fuels to modern, sustainable alternatives.

Sun King employs 3,500 full-time staff in 14 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 42% of Sun King’s workforce.