Vacancy title:
5 Field Sales Supervisor

Jobs at:
Off Grid Electric

Deadline of this Job:
17th August 2018

Duty Station:
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Summary
Date Posted: 13th August 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

JOB DETAILS:
Off Grid Electric is an international. Venture-backed startup that's aiming to power Africa with clean and affordable solar energy. We design, manufacture finance and distribute best-in-class solar home systems for the African market with a globally distributed team. Our user-centered design tenets balance designing as pi rational solar energy products for our customers and building high-quality, scalable products.

The Position:
The Field Sales Supervisor supervises a team of Field Sales Leaders who are permanent employees and Field Sales Representatives that are non-permanent. The role requires leading compliance to current sales processes and policies and ensuring that both permanent and non-permanent employees adhere to these processes. A key component of the role is training and coaching the sales team on sales techniques. administration and products and managing the day to day activities ofthe team. The role therefore requires strong team supervisory competencies and the ability to implement tactical plans and coordinate with other departments. The Field sales supervisor will also play an instrumental role in ensuring that the onboarding and off boarding of new Field Sales representatives is executed flawlessly and will be the kev point of contact between the Recruiting and Training team and also the sales administration team.

Primary Responsibilities:
What you'll do:

• The FSS is responsible to understand, promote and adhere to:
  
• Company & country strategy and how the team contributes to achieving these strategies
  
• Values of ZOLA & ZOLA ELECTRIC
  
• Health and safety policy 3 limits of Authority
  
• Other country policies
  
• The FSS must understand, operate and teach others to use:
  
• ZOLA Ap
  
• Surge Web
  
• Weekly & Daily Management Dashboards
  
• Looker
  
• The FSS must understand ZOLA’s Channel Strategy and how the team contributes to implementing this strategy
  
• The FSS is responsible for onboarding FSF-ls and FSLs into the team and also liaising vfith the sales administrators for the off boarding process.
  
• The FSS should proactively motivate the subordinate’s and focus on keeping good morale within the team
  
• The FSS is responsible that the team's FSLs & FSRs are active and achieve their targets.
  

Required Qualifications:

• Relevant Bachelor Degree
  
• 2-3 years of B2B or direct sales experience of which 1 year is in a supervisory capacity core Skills that are mandatory for this role:
  
• Planning of Organizing
  
• Tracking & Monitoring *1 Controlling
  
• Significant commercial and industry business to business sales experience 3 proven success in utilizing interpersonal and sales skills at multiple levels to maximize sales
  
• Understanding of the local business environment 3 Knowledge of basic financial principles
  
• Supervisory skills
  
• Analytical skills
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant Bachelor Degree in Sales and Marketing would be advantageous Work experience in Renewable energy or First Moving Consumer Goods (desired) affordable and clean energy H
  
• Join one of the most cross-functional, dynamic teams; charged with developing and executing on the company’s product vision
  
• Live in and travel around one of the loveliest and most exotic parts of Africa
  
• Work to solve energy access for more than one billion people living off the grid and develop a deep understanding of global energy challenges
  
• Be a part of a fast-growing organization transitioning from startup to a high growth global enterprise
  
• Work with some of the smartest, most committed, and hardest working co-workers from Silicon Valley to Africa