Job description

EnerGrow has finished its pilot phase and is quickly growing, but is still very much a start-up. We therefore have a culture of experimentation, idea generation, hard work, and chipping in wherever help is needed on the team. We currently manage several donor-supported projects all driving EnerGrow towards becoming a sustainable asset financing business. We are trialling different distribution models, KYC processes, asset categories for our sales, and we are building out our internal systems and processes while expanding geographically.

We anticipate adding 2-3 locations in Uganda by the end of the year with operations or distribution partnerships across them. The Sales Manager will be responsible for:

• Refining and unifying a credit-centred national approach to new customer acquisition across all EnerGrow operations.
• Managing and supporting branch managers to innovate and deliver on asset financing sales targets, with a focus on quality customers who will repay.
• Ensuring learnings on successes / challenges around the organization are shared and enshrined in the work of all sales staff.
• Travelling to offices around the country to ensure teams are supported and unified with EnerGrow’s mission and ways of working. The Sales Manager should be highly motivated to build things, be innovative in thought and action, and have very strong people management skills. We expect the Sales Manager to inspire his or her team to deliver on the goals of the business and drive significant impact across Uganda.

What excites you

• Being part of an organization that is changing Africa’s future for the better.
• A fast-paced environment where constant change is the norm and individual initiative-taking is encouraged.
• Having autonomy to implement your creative solutions – not just coming up with ideas, but possessing the commitment and skill to implement them.
• Passion for organization, attention to detail, and precision.

What you will make happen

• Drive continuous improvement of sales of asset financing to high quality customers across the key verticals of general small business, electric cooking, cooling, agro-processing, and e-mobility (Electric Motorbikes).
• Management of sales / credit teams and execution on all verticals across in the respective region of operation.
• Develop an effective strategy for Sales and Marketing that exactly maps in- market realities.
• Ensure they follow through on Teams Performance and Profit generation by overseeing all relationship officers/sales agents, and refinement and application of incentive structures for sales team.
• Ability to take on multiple responsibilities within the commercial space and ability to execute well through people.
• People Management and team building based on sales performance, mentoring and professional development support.
• A Sales Manager must be able to set targets and ensure they are meant.
• Have great relationships with People across all levels.
• A Sales Manager will have a “Disruptive” mind of challenging the status quo.
• He must be able to maintain and recruit Sales Staff for his/her various teams, and putting them through the required on-boarding process.
• Willingness for self-development to continuously.
• The Role has also to be highly knowledgeable with Computer applications, specifically the G- suite.

What you already have:

• Exceptional negotiation skills.
• Ability to build effective relationships, whether internally or externally.
• Possess effective presentation skills.
• Demonstrated effective oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to use the computer and business-related applications.
• Ability to work under pressure and still produce result.
• Ability to be flexible.
• Demonstrated business acumen.
• Demonstrated ability to retain high performing team of sales personnel.
• Ability to meet up with targets.
• Ability to be proactive and plan effectively.
• Management skills; ability to get people moving towards a specific task.
• Enthusiastic and passionate of the work.
• Ability to think strategically.
• Possess people skills and the ability to solve problems.
• Strategy development and project management skills.
• Ability to build and maintain effective networks.
• Experience in scaling up business growth in a credit environment will be an added advantage.