Branch Manager
Western and Central Region, Kenya
Up To 3 Positions Available
If you are a natural entrepreneur who loves working with people, creating an impact in health and selling life-saving products, you could be Living Goods’ next Branch Manager!
Living Goods supports a network of over 900 micro-entrepreneurs in Uganda and
Kenya who teach families in their communities how to improve health and
well-being while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines,
fortified foods, water filters, clean cook-stoves, and solar lights. If you are a natural entrepreneur who loves working with people, creating an impact in health and selling life-saving products, you could be Living Goods’ next Branch Manager!
As part of the Branch Team, you will
play a key role in supporting Community Health Promoters (CHPs) to deliver high
quality health care to their communities and generate sales of critical
products.
To be successful in this role you must be able to motivate others, have strong business skills, and want to be part of a cutting edge team that is setting the bar for how a social enterprise can improve health impacts in a sustainable way.
Responsibilities
Agent Support and Motivation
To be successful in this role you must be able to motivate others, have strong business skills, and want to be part of a cutting edge team that is setting the bar for how a social enterprise can improve health impacts in a sustainable way.
Responsibilities
Agent Support and Motivation
- Motivate agents in-field to achieve health and
sales targets. Work to support strong performers, to increase
effectiveness of medium performers, and increase or remove poor
performers.
- Ensure all CHPs are delivering impact in the
communities both through remote checks and through in-field checks (esp.
diagnosis and treatment)
- Implement marketing and promotional efforts to
support CHPs sales goals.
- Lead monthly meeting of agents.
Operations Management
- Manage Branch team members, ensuring
performance
- Manage Branch financial operations and ensure
that the books balance: cash matches sales on a daily basis.
- Manage and maintain inventory.
- Manage operations to keep costs as low as
possible.
- Manage relations between the implementing
partner organizations.
Qualifications
- Diploma in Business or Health related areas;
Bachelor of Arts welcome.
- Minimum 2 years experience in health/community
related work.
- Business related degree or diploma a plus.
- Management experience a must.
- Entrepreneurial spirit and drive for results.
- Ability and willingness to work extensively in
the field.
- Exceptional natural leader with strong
interpersonal skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communications
skills in English.
- Luhya, Luo, Kiswahili speaking added
advantage.
- Proficiency with Ms-Word and Excel and general
computer proficiency.
- Flexible and willing to travel across Kenya
and stay for some nights up-country.
Compensation: We offer an attractive salary package, plus health
insurance and the opportunity to enter an exciting career path within a fast
and growing mission driven team.
How to Apply
To apply for this position please visit our career page and apply for ‘Branch Manager – Central / Western’ on our applicant tracking system. Successful candidates will be contacted for an interview.
How to Apply
To apply for this position please visit our career page and apply for ‘Branch Manager – Central / Western’ on our applicant tracking system. Successful candidates will be contacted for an interview.
Assistant Branch Manager
Western Region, Kenya
Up to 6 Positions Available
If you are a natural entrepreneur who loves working with people, creating an impact in health and selling life-saving products, you could be Living Goods’ next Assistant Branch Manager!
Living Goods supports a network of over 900 micro-entrepreneurs in Uganda and Kenya who teach families in their communities how to improve health and well-being while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook-stoves, and solar lights.
If you are a natural entrepreneur who loves working with people, creating an impact in health and selling life-saving products, you could be Living Goods’ next Assistant Branch Manager!
Living Goods supports a network of over 900 micro-entrepreneurs in Uganda and Kenya who teach families in their communities how to improve health and well-being while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook-stoves, and solar lights.
As part of the Branch Team, you will
play a key role in supporting Community Health Promoters (CHPs) to deliver high
quality health care to their communities and generate sales of critical
products.
To be successful in this role you must be able to motivate others, have strong business skills, and want to be part of a cutting edge team that is setting the bar for how a social enterprise can improve health impacts in a sustainable way.
Responsibilities
To be successful in this role you must be able to motivate others, have strong business skills, and want to be part of a cutting edge team that is setting the bar for how a social enterprise can improve health impacts in a sustainable way.
Responsibilities
- Recruit, train and manage Community Health
Promoters.
- Motivate Community Health Promoters to meet
health and sales targets.
- Ensure all Community Health Promoters know and
follow health protocols (esp. diagnosis and treatment).
- Support Community Health Promoters in learning
and using correctly their smartphones and the health-centered Android apps
- Implement marketing and promotional efforts to
support agent sales.
- Contribute to Branch operations.
- Achieve sales targets and health impact goals.
- Manage inventory: Ensure no stock-outs and
ensure management on First In/First Out basis.
- Manage the financial operations, ensuring the
books balance; cash matches sales daily.
- Manage credit: deposit, timely repayments,
rigorous reporting.
- Build strong community relations.
Qualifications
- Diploma in Health related areas welcome.
- Minimum 1 year experience in health/community
related work.
- Team player with drive for results.
- Ability to provide guidance to Community Health
Promoters.
- Ability and willingness to work extensively in
the field.
- Ability to interact with community elders,
Community Health Promoters and clients.
- Ability to work under minimum supervision.
- Ability to test new innovations and learn
fast.
- Proficiency with Ms-Word and Excel and general
computer proficiency.
- Excellent oral communication skills in
English.
- Experienced in handling microcredit a plus
- Luhya, Luo, Kiswahili speaking added
advantage.
Compensation: We offer an attractive salary package, plus health
insurance and the opportunity to enter an exciting career path within a fast
and growing mission driven team.
How to Apply
To apply for this position please visit our career page and apply forAssistant Branch Manager through our applicant tracking system.
How to Apply
To apply for this position please visit our career page and apply forAssistant Branch Manager through our applicant tracking system.
Successful candidates will be
contacted for an interview.
Life at Living Goods: Living Goods is aiming to make disruptive changes,
dramatically improving the lives of underserved communities. We think big, but
we operate small and nimble. At Living Goods, 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 willthrive at Living Goods. See www.livinggoods.org/principles.
