Sales Team Lead at Engie Africa

Location: Agbara / Aradagun / Mowo / Badagry - Lagos

Responsibilities, Deliverables and Activities

• The Sales Team Lead will be stationed in the preferred location and be responsible for leading and managing a team of sales agents, installation technicians, dual contractors and their customers – responsible for the full customer cycle I.e., sale, fulfil, maintain and recover.
• The successful candidate must be a detail-oriented professional with strong critical thinking skills and a demonstrated track record of effective sales work.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the sales operational strategies within allocated area, as well as align with the area sales target.
• Organizing sales activities and functions in the field to achieve targets, revenue and desired quality sales.
• Managing installation technicians and maintenance technicians
• Training and coaching of sales agents on topics including pitching, sales conversation, closing and building strong and long-lasting relationships with customers.

Deliverables and Activities

• On time high-quality system installations at the customers premises or any other location as directed by Engie Energy Access.
• Coordinate installation technicians and maintenance technicians to ensure systems are installed and maintained.
• Support recruitment of new installation and maintenance technicians in the sales area.
• Prepare the monthly installation monitoring report for the zonal service coordinator.
• Review control monthly commission payments and payroll follow up on faulty installations and inform finance department about deductions.
• Repossessions are aligned and coordinated with the customer finance department.
• Identify the needs for and recruit new contractors with support from service network team leader.
• Responsible for disciplinary for installations and maintenance technicians.
• Stock takings
• Stock audit report
• Providing regular portfolio & compliance reports to zonal sales manager and credit control team
• Managing the daily work and activities of area administrator according prioritization policy on workout activities.
• Deal with complex scenarios (customer not found, fire, violence etc.)
• Assessing internal and external cause for portfolio deteriorations
• Participating in the recruitment of new staff and training of existing staff
• Monitor and review KPIs + provide feedback area administrator
• Conduct periodic performance review of area administrator.
• Mentoring each SAs, installation technician, maintenance technician, dual contractor and area admin to enhance operational performance, motivation and engagement.
• Educating Sales agents, dual contractors, area administrator, installation technicians, maintenance technicians and in applicable policies, guidelines provided by zonal sales manager and credit departmental standards.
• Support conducting quarterly inventory audits for all service centres

Qualifications

• B.Sc. Degree or equivalent

Required Skills and Experience:

• 1-3years of relevant work experience
• Critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• Ability to manage relationships with internal/external customers to resolve issues of moderate complexity.
• Able to apply strong functional computer knowledge in utilizing Microsoft Windows, MAC, or other technical tools in completing assignments. May require knowledge of or ability to quickly learn specialized software to complete work assignments.
• Good communication skills with ability to state messages clearly, using language that is comprehensible to others.
• Must be able to proactively listen to others.
• Demonstrable ability to multi-task and adhere to deadlines
• Well-organized with a customer-oriented approach
• Must live in Badagry/Agbara and environs.