What
is Living Goods?
Do
you have serious business skills and want to use them to make a difference not
just make a living? Are you just looking for a change, or are you
looking for the chance to changes millions of lives for the better, including
yours? If your answer is ‘yes’, read on.
Living
Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro entrepreneurs who go door-to-door
teaching families how to improve their health and wealth, and selling low-cost,
life-changing products like essential medicines, fortified foods, money-saving
cook stoves, and solar lights.
Living
Goods seeks nothing less than a disruptive reinvention of distribution in the
developing world, through networks of franchised micro entrepreneurs who
leverage LG’s brand, buying power and powerful mobile marketing tools to
deliver vital products, at accessible prices, to the people who need them
most.
By
combining the best practices from the worlds of micro-enterprise, franchising
and public health, Living Goods is creating a fully sustainable system to
improve the health and wealth of the world’s poor.
Living Goods Regional Direct Sales Manager - Kenya
A
Business that Changes Lives… Including Yours
Position
Overview
Living
Goods is expanding into Kenya in 2013 with the goal of building a national
network of high-impact entrepreneurs.
We
are recruiting a full new team to lead this effort including up to 5 regional
Sales Managers. The Regional Sales Managers will each oversee a Living Goods
Branch Store that supports hundreds of independent Living Goods direct sales
agents.
Success
in this role means recruiting a large number of exceptional LG agents for each
branch, providing effective sales coaching including working in the field
alongside LG agents every week, maintaining accurate records, contributing
innovative ideas to improve sales and impacts, and exceeding aggressive
sales, profit and social impact targets. Living Goods believes and invests in
the smartest mobile tools for driving sales and managing sales force
effectiveness.
Living
Goods is a fast-paced, mission-driven and business-minded organization.
This is your chance to join and shape a successful fast growing,
multi-national organization at a time of exceptional opportunities for
professional growth.
Living
Goods has been featured in The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The Economist,
and The Huffington Post, read more here: www.livinggoods.org/news-media/news/
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Minimum of 4
years of sales experience preferably in direct selling, retail or
wholesale of consumer packaged goods. Experience in recruiting and
managing sales agents. Proven track record of exceeding sales and profit targets.
- Strong math and
analytical skills. Well versed in MS Excel.
- Outstanding
verbal communications
- Willingness to
be in the field, hands-on with LG’s sales force and clients
- Regional sales
managers will be based in major trade hubs across Kenya and require in
country travel 40-60% of most months.
Compensation
- A competitive
salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health,
paid time off, and a significant performance bonus opportunity.
- The opportunity
to be your best while making lives better for others.
Living Goods Training and
Monitoring Manager - Kenya
A Business that Changes Lives… Including Yours
A Business that Changes Lives… Including Yours
Position
Overview
Living
Goods is expanding into Kenya in 2013 with the goal of building a national
network of high-impact entrepreneurs. We are recruiting a full new team to lead
this effort and one of the key positions is Training and Monitoring
Manager.
The
Training and Monitoring Manager will oversee innovation, planning and
measurement of Living Goods Training and Monitoring objectives around improving
health and economic outcomes for our customers and agents.
Success
in the this role means innovating new tools and strategies for improving social
outcomes, effectively training field staff and agents in simple but powerful
ways to improve family health and livelihoods, and accurately measuring,
monitoring and analyzing results to drive improvements in the Living Goods
model.
LG
believes strongly, and invests heavily, in using the smartest mobile technology
for both driving and measuring impact. Living Goods is a fast-paced,
mission-driven and business-minded organization.
This
is your chance to join and shape a successful fast growing, multi-national
organization at a time of exceptional opportunities for professional growth.
Living
Goods has been featured in The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The Economist,
and The Huffington Post, read more here: www.livinggoods.org/news-media/news/
Training
and Monitoring Manager Responsibilities
- Innovate in
Social Impact Delivery: Create and test innovative approaches for helping
LG sales agents to improve health and economic impacts for struggling
families.
- Oversee
Training: Oversee training of branch staff and Living Goods agents in
community health, basic entrepreneurship, door to door sales and use of
innovative mobile tools.
- Manage
Monitoring and Quality Control: Employ a range of effective tools,
including mobile, for measuring social impacts, and ensuring program
quality. Assist in the implementation of best practice external
evaluations. Analyze monitoring and evaluation data to deliver insights
for improving impact.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 7
years of experience in one or more of the following: monitoring and
evaluation of social programs - experience with mobile data collection a
plus; community health training; consumer research; micro enterprise
program delivery.
- Strong math and
analytical skills. Well versed in MS Excel.
- Superior oral
and written communication skills.
- College degree
preferred.
The
position is based in Nairobi, Kenya and requires in country travel 20-50% of
most months.
Compensation
- A competitive
salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health,
vacation, and bonus opportunity.
- The opportunity
to be your best while making lives better for others.
Living Goods Accounting Manager - Kenya
A
Business that Changes Lives… Including Yours
Accounting
Manager Responsibilities
- Oversee Day to
Day Management of LG’s Finances and Financial Reporting. Track and post
all financial transactions in Quickbooks, manage payroll, bank account
reconciliation, purchases, capital expenditures, daily cash management and
other bookkeeping duties.
- Oversee
Inventory Controls across multiple product stores
- Produce Monthly
Financial Statements and Analyses
- Coordinate
Year-End Audit
Qualifications
- Minimum of 7
years of accounting experience preferably in retail or wholesale of
consumer packaged goods. Strong inventory control experience in SKU
intensive businesses.
- Exceptional math
and analytical skills. Well versed in MS Excel. Proficient in QuickBooks
The
position is based in Nairobi, Kenya and requires in-country travel 10-15% of
most months.
Compensation
Compensation
- A competitive
salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health,
vacation, and bonus opportunity.
- The opportunity
to be your best while making lives better for others.
Living Goods Kenya Business Manager
A Business that Changes Lives… Including Yours
Position Overview
Position Overview
Living Goods is expanding into Kenya in 2013 with the goal of
building a national network of high-impact entrepreneurs. We are recruiting a
full new team to lead this effort and one of the most important positions is
Country Business Manager.
The Business Manager will lead the effort to recruit and support
a network of thousands of independent agents supported through a backbone of
regional distribution hubs. Living Goods is a fast-paced, mission-driven
and business-minded organization. We are particularly looking for
candidates with strong experience managing sales teams in consumer goods.
This is your chance to join and shape a successful fast growing,
multi-national organization at a time of exceptional opportunities for
professional growth.
Living Goods has been featured in The New York Times, TIME
Magazine, The Economist, and The Huffington Post, read more here: www.livinggoods.org/news-media/news/
Kenya Business Manager Responsibilities
- Build
National Sales Force: Oversee recruitment of agents and all field
activities including sales and marketing, distribution, and finance.
- Build
and Support Field Team: Recruit, train, motivate and mentor all Branch
Managers and ensure they are supported to achieve success.
- Innovation:
Generate and deploy innovative tests and promotions that have the opportunity
to significantly improve profitability and human impacts.
- Master
Mobile Tools: Optimize the use of the mobile communications platform to
drive sales, deepen impacts, reduce costs, and increase profitability.
This position is based in Nairobi with up to 40% travel time
within Kenya.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Minimum
of 5-7 years of experience in sales and sales force management, preferably
in consumer packaged goods. Proven track record of driving sales success.
- Experience
recruiting, managing and motivating large teams.
- Strong
math and financial skills. Well versed in MS Excel.
- Able
to travel in country 30-50% of the month.
- College
degree preferred.
Compensation
- A
competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience
including health, vacation, and bonus opportunity.
- The
opportunity to be your best while making lives better for others.
Living Goods Kenya Procurement Manager
A Business that Changes Lives… Including Yours
Position Overview
Position Overview
Living Goods is expanding into Kenya in 2013 with the goal of
building a national network of high-impact entrepreneurs. We are recruiting a
full new team to lead this effort and one of the key positions is Country
Procurement Manager.
The Procurement Manager will source consumer products across a
wide range of categories to support LG’s thousands of independent agents.
Success in the this role means finding new winning products to
test, aggressively lowering product costs, keeping branches in stock at all
times, maximizing inventory turns and minimizing losses. Living Goods is a
fast-paced, mission-driven and business-minded organization.
This is your chance to join and shape a successful fast growing,
multi-national organization at a time of exceptional opportunities for
professional growth.
Living Goods has been featured in The New York Times, TIME
Magazine, The Economist, and The Huffington Post, read more here: www.livinggoods.org/news-media/news/
Kenya Procurement Manager Responsibilities
- Product
Research / Sourcing: Scour the market for innovative high-impact
products that customers will value for Living Goods to test and sell.
- Maximize
Margins: Oversee bidding and negotiating with suppliers to drive down
product costs.
- Oversee
Purchasing / Inventory Management: Manage purchasing and logistics to
maximize in stock rates and inventory turns.
- Manage
Distribution: Coordinate shipping of product in country, importation, and
inventory control across multiple product stores.
This position is based in Nairobi, Kenya and requires in country
travel 10-20% of each month
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Minimum
of 5 years of experience in product procurement, preferably in consumer
packaged goods. Proven track record of driving down product costs.
- Exceptional
negotiating skills.
- Strong
math and financial skills. Well versed in MS Excell.
- College
degree preferred.
Compensation
- A
competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience
including health, vacation, and bonus opportunity.
- The
opportunity to be your best while making lives better for others.
Life at Living Goods
Living Goods is aiming to make game-changing, landscape-shifting
changes that dramatically improve the lives of the poor. We think big, but we
operate small and nimble. At LG, you will have the chance to use your
creativity and work with your teammates to conceive and test new ideas every
day.
If you work well in a dynamic, highly collaborative culture, if
you set high standards for yourself and your colleagues, if you know how to
fail fast and learn fast, if you meet challenges with calm determination and a
sense of humor, you will be happy at Living Goods. See www.livinggoods.org/principles.
Living Goods’ head office sits in California, USA where some of the most successful companies in the world were born – including Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, and Google. Living Goods is financed by some of the most successful business people and investors in world including the founder of eBay – an $11 billion global platform that empowers millions of small businesses around the world.
How to Apply
Living Goods’ head office sits in California, USA where some of the most successful companies in the world were born – including Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, and Google. Living Goods is financed by some of the most successful business people and investors in world including the founder of eBay – an $11 billion global platform that empowers millions of small businesses around the world.
How to Apply
Please submit a single file with resume/CV and cover letter
describing your interest, qualifications, and how you learned of the position
to jobs@livinggoods.org. Important, please type “Kenya Procurement Manager –
[Last Name]” in the subject line.
New opportunities at Living Goods get filled quickly.
New opportunities at Living Goods get filled quickly.
Apply today!
For more information about Living Goods, please visit:www.livinggoods.org
follow us on twitter at @Living_Goods
For more information about Living Goods, please visit:www.livinggoods.org
follow us on twitter at @Living_Goods
