Visioneers Recruitment at the VeritasVision Social Initiative

Veritas Vision International (www.veritasvision.org) is a social enterprise headquartered in the Netherlands with a vision for a healthy, self-sufficient, equitable and sustainable world. We bring premium quality life-changing products such as adjustable focus glasses, solar lamps with USB phone charger, and modern biomass cookstoves straight to the doorsteps of families and communities that need them the most to help them save their hard-earned money and time, improve their health, and the general qualities of their lives.

We educate families about the benefits of these alternative sustainable solutions and provide flexible installment payment plans to make our products affordable. We also offer after-sales services; all our products have a minimum one-year clear and simple warranty.

We invite applications from suitably qualified candidates for the position below:

Job Title: Visioneer

Location: Lagos

Responsibilities

• We are looking for entrepreneurial, results-driven, and self-motivated sales representatives (Visioneers) to actively seek out and engage prospects and create long-term, trusting relationships with our customers
• You will provide complete and appropriate solutions for new customers to help them save money and improve the general quality of their lives, oversee a portfolio of assigned customers, develop new business from existing customers, actively seek new sales opportunities, solve customer issues, boost our customer experience and satisfaction levels, and top-line revenue growth.

Job Duties
As our Visioneer, your duties include, but are not limited to:

• Generates leads and identifies market potential by qualifying leads across different segments.
• Services existing accounts, obtains orders, and establishes new accounts by planning and organizing daily work schedule to call on existing or potential customers.
• Initiates sales process by scheduling appointments; making tailored demo presentations; understanding customer requirements.
• Closes sales by building rapport with potential leads; explaining product and service benefits; overcoming objections; preparing contracts.
• Expands sales to existing customers by introducing new products and services
• Keeps management informed by submitting activity and results reports, such as daily call reports, weekly work plans, and monthly and annual territory analyses.
• Contributes information to market strategy by monitoring competitive products and reactions from customers.
• Recommends new or changes in products, service, and policy by evaluating results and competitive developments.
• Generates marketing content (images and videos) during field activities.
• Resolves customer complaints by investigating problems; developing solutions; preparing reports; making recommendations to management.
• Has a growth mindset and updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities.

Requirements

• NCE / OND or equivalent
• Experience as a sales representative in related field (0-2 years)
• Passion for Social work - a natural motivation to solve problems in society
• Applicant MUST live in Alimosho LGA
• Customer Service Skills
• Customer Relationship Management Skills
• Presentation Skills
• Verbal Communication Skills
• Negotiation Skills
• Self-Confidence, Persistence and Motivation for Sales
• Meeting Sales Goals
• Teamwork and Internal Communications
• Prioritizing, Time Management and Organizational Skills
• Openness to Feedback, and Growth Mindset
• Flexibility: You might have to work long hours, nights or weekends.
• Excellent Knowledge of MS Office

Why You Should Work for Us (Our Culture):

• We have a passion for Social Work: a natural motivation to solve societal problems.
• We deliver Memorable Experiences and Services to our customers and stakeholders always.
• We build honest and mutually beneficial relationships through communication with our customers and stakeholders.
• We always create a fun, positive team and family spirit.
• We are entrepreneurial, autonomous, creative, and Innovative.
• We believe in Self-sufficiency and Sustainable Development: Local Problems, Local Solutions.
• Our solutions are premium-quality, pragmatic, and sustainable.
• We believe in transparency, inclusion, equality, and leadership at all levels.
• We have a clear path for employee growth and learning.

Application Closing Date
24th August, 2018.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to Start Application

Application Procedure

• Step 1: Click on the link above to fill our "Application Form"
• Step 2: Upon submission, you will be automatically redirected to the link below to take our Online Problem-Solving Tests: https://www.tptests.com/?projectscode=VV0718
• Please register and enter the Access Code: VV0718 to access the online assessment. This online test contains one critical thinking, one verbal reasoning, and one abstract reasoning test. Please complete all three.
• Advice for taking tests and how to prepare can be found here: https://www.testpartnership.com/preparation.html
• Stage 3: Attend our Free one-week Marketing and Sales Training Bootcamp to prepare yourself for our “Sales Challenge”.
• In the Bootcamp, we will:
  • Train you on Marketing, Sales, and Social Entrepreneurship.
  • Introduce our life-changing Products.
  • Set a Sales Target.
  • Give you a task to generate enough leads in your community to meet the Sales Target.
  • Evaluate you based on your ability to solve problem smartly.
  • Make the leads you generated your assigned job duties for your first month or quarter, if you get hired.
• Stage 4: Face to Face Interview
• Stage 5: Offer Letter and Company Onboarding of Selected Visioneer(s).