State Sales Manager at Fenix International - Nasarawa

Fenix International is a next-generation energy company. Our mission is to transform our customers’ quality of life through disruptive innovation in energy and financial services. Our flagship product, ReadyPay Solar, is an expandable, lease-to-own solar home system financed through affordable instalments starting under $0.17 per day. We use real-time transaction data to create a unique credit score to finance power upgrades and other life-changing loans and open up a wider world of energy and financing for our customers.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: State Sales Manager

Location: Nasarawa
Department: Commercial
Type: Full Time
Min. Experience: Manager/Supervisor

Responsibilities

• Acquire​ new customers and increase repeat sales for our most creditworthy existing customers
• Continuously​ refine and iterate on our regional sales strategy that aims to reach millions of customers in need of Ready Pay Power by 2020, both by acquiring new customers and increasing repeat sales to existing customers
• Test,​ validate, and refine Fenix Nigeria’s strategic sales and marketing initiatives based on analysis of our unique data set and field-based insights, in order to amplify our sales model to drive new customer acquisition
• Continuously​ improve customer repayment
• Develop​ a commercial strategy that optimizes customer lifetime value (CLV) through increasing new sales, improving loan performance, and growing active customers and repeat sales
• Use​ our unique data set as well as insights derived from the field to refine and iterate on our customer retention strategy, in order to improve payment velocity, repayment rates and repeat sales
• Own​ and advance relationships with key stakeholders
• Support​ in creating and maintaining relationships with current and potential commercial partners
• Create​ and own relationship management of key stakeholders within the sales process, especially with distribution partners (if any)
•  Identify​ and assess additional sales channels to expand sales coverage across your state, including distributors, corporation and NGO partners
• Provide​ leadership to the teams that drive sales and customer repayment
• Live and communicate Fenix’s mission to improve the quality of life of our customers
• Uphold and help continually build the Fenix culture which always embraces Fenix’s vision and values and always puts the customer’s experience first
• Build upon, support, and provide exceptional leadership to the Team Leads and Fenix Power Champions, including testing and setting compensation, targets, and incentive structures.
• Oversee the recruitment, training and ongoing management of sales, marketing, and customer repayment teams in your state.
• Support team development by performing regular reviews and trainings, retaining high performing team members, and finding creative ways to boost low performing sales team members

Required Skills and Experience

• 5 or more years working in a senior role within a progressive sales and/or financial services environment with strong, quantifiable results
• Proven experience and a passion for motivating and leading large teams to deliver on ambitious goals within a commercial business environment
• Ability to draw the right insights from data to create and nimbly adjust strategy, make difficult decisions that often require trade-offs, balanced with a bias to action
• Experience or passion for working in developing markets

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Application Instructions:
To apply please send a CV and a cover letter answering the following questions:

• Why do you want to work for Fenix?
• What leadership and/or entrepreneurial experience will you bring to Fenix in this role?
• What is your vision for Fenix’s Commercial Strategy across your state?
• What will make Fenix’s commercial strategy unique 5 years from now if you were in this role?

Note: Fenix offers a competitive salary and a fun work environment. We recognize the value of diversity in our workforce, and encourage all qualified candidates to apply. We thank all candidates who choose to apply, however, only those selected for a further interview will be contacted.