KickStart International Partnership and Sales Officer Job in Thika Kenya

KickStart International Partnership and Sales Officer Job in Thika Kenya

Job Description

KickStart International Inc.Job Title: Partnership and Sales Officer

Function: Partnership and Sales

Location: Central Region – Thika

Grade: 7 (Commercial)
Type of Contract: Open Ended

Role Purpose:

• Enlist groups of farmers in the designated areas
• Make all the scheduled visits to each group of farmers as agreed with the group and the supervisor
• Create awareness and convince farmers to purchase MoneyMaker pumps
• Follow up on the prospects to close a sale
• Create awareness of the Rent to own and Mobile Lay away financial products to farmers
• Carry out farm demonstrations to the farmers who desire to understand the pump
• Register farmers for the appropriate financial product to procure the pump
• Follow-up on the registered farmers for payments
• Ensure that all the documentation on any sale is fully made and at the right time
• Ensure that the dealer assigned to them have all the appropriate marketing collaterals

Scope of Role: Reports to: Partnership and Sales Regional Manage

Staff directly reporting to this post: None

Works with: Other Partnership and Sales Officer in the region, Dealers, Project Manager, Partners, Group leaders

Key Areas of Accountability:

• Daily reports on all activities carried out
• Ensure that all documentation of the areas visited including a Geo-tagged photo are up loaded into the Drop box
• Ensure that all the sales documentation are made including contracts, guarantee forms are all made and passed on to the supervisor
• Groups are met on time, according to the schedule and all prospects are recorded

Qualifications and Experience

• KSCE
• Certificate in sales and marketing
• Proven ability to handle challenging work load
• Cross-cultural experience, understanding and sensitivity;
• Excellent interpersonal and written and oral communication skills;
• Commitment to KickStart’s values

Skills and Behaviours
Experience selling assets to rural markets
Experience working with retail markets

If you feel you are the right candidate for this position, please send your CV and cover letter to hr@kickstart.org quoting the title on the subject line before COB 31st December, 2014