Job Title: Sales Director Kenya
Our Company:
Jiunga is the leading platform provider for mobile message communications in East Africa.
Our technology is phenomenal, built by engineers from Stanford
University (where great companies like Google and Yahoo have their
roots).
And our client list is already impressive, boasting
multinationals with some of the most well known brands in the world.
But we’re still a young and growing company and operate very
much like a startup.
We want to share the power and simplicity of Jiunga with the
rest of the world, and that's where you come in.
The Role:
We want to hire a Kenya Sales Director that will be key to coordinating the fast-growing sales team as well as developing and implementing Jiunga’s sales and marketing strategy.
Specifically we want you to do the following:
- Lead
a rapidly expanding group of sales associates, coordinate their efforts
and keep them accountable for their work
- At
the same time, we want you to also experience selling our platform to, and
part of your job will be connecting with potential customers and selling
directly to them
- Work
with our tech team (the previously mentioned Stanford engineers) and work
on improving current and developing new sales tools
- Attend
conferences, trade shows and other networking opportunities to source new
clients and represent Jiunga
- Manage
important customer relationships with new and existing clients
- Communicate
with our technology team to provide customer feedback and help improve our
product
- Be
innovative and flexible! We love it when you come up with new ways to
market and sell to customers, if you think you want to be at the cutting
edge of sales in Kenya, then this might be the perfect job for you!
The Requirements:
You will be working alongside some really smart and dedicated people, and we like to work with others that are similar in nature.
Specifically, this is what we are looking for:
- A
Bachelors Degree with top marks, your Bachelors degree can be in any field
- Experience
in a sales position or in a management position
- Fluency
in both Kiswahili and English
- Strong
presentation skills, both in person and on the phone
- High
attention to detail
- Hard-working
and effective communication skills
- Ability
to manage others and be creative and innovating in approaching new
problems
- Very
responsive over email and on the phone
How to Apply:
Send your resume to jobs@jiunga.com, and in your email just let us know why you are interested in this position and any details that aren’t listed on your resume
