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About the role:

• The Area Business Manager will coordinate sales, collections and distribution operations in the area they are assigned for the direct distribution of Sun King Solar products sold on Pay-As-You-Basis (also called and recognized as “EasyBuy” Business unit) through a network of agents called as “Energy Officer”. 
• The Area Business Manager is ultimately accountable for generating sales, ensuring collections are timely and accurate and keeping the entire Direct Distribution growing rapidly in a sustainable manager.

What you would be expected to do:

• Hire & retain Energy Officers: Hire, train and maintain a team of at least 40  Sun King Energy Officers in the area. Use multiple avenues for finding the right talent to sell Sun King EasyBuy products with the help of village influencers such as the village heads, teachers, religious heads, doctors, farmers and others, as applicable. Create a reputation and goodwill for the mission of Sun King to provide clean, affordable and reliable source of energy in their areas.
• Training of Energy Officers: Provide training to the Energy Officers on several aspects of the business such as sales, collections, product, technical, inventory and logistics related. Ensure that they are fully supervised in the best professional manner demonstrating highest levels of integrity, ethics and professionalism while dealing with customers.
• Provide role clarity to Energy Officers: Provide complete clarity to Energy Officers related to their day to day tasks, sales & collections plans, routes and targets. This includes, ensuring Energy Officers have sales route/area to sell in, they know on how to demonstrate and sell Sun King products, they have the confidence to be able to present and resolve basic customer queries on the spot and they have access to Area Business Manager at all times in case of questions and concerns.
• Daily field visits: Have a weekly touchpoint with every Energy Officer in your area – either through in-person meetings, making a sale to the customer in your area or having a call. Resolve all possible issues faced by the Energy Officers and report them to your Regional Business Manager, every week. Ensure that first 5 sales of each Energy Officer is done along with the Area Business Manager in the area, by each Energy Officer to ensure that the core sales and collection process is fully understood by each Energy Officer.
• Work with Energy Officers: Conduct joint field work with a group of Energy Officers to provide sales and collection training on a weekly basis and drive EO engagement. This includes doing night activations, market activations, visiting local communities and gatherings such as SACCOs, Self Help groups, retail centers and markets to make group sales.
• Exceed your sales & collections targets: Meet or exceed sales and collection targets established on 2nd of every month by your Regional Business Manager. Provide daily, weekly updates on sales, EO recruitments, Customer issues and resolutions, in alignment with your Regional Business Manager.
• Drive robust field sales processes: Review collection progress with your Energy Officers daily and provide adequate training to them on driving better collections in your areas. This includes, customer and area profiling, ensuring regular and timely collection follow-ups, resolving customer issues to ensure they make payments and ultimately repossessing the systems as a last recourse in case the customer defaults.
• Remain externally focused: Keep an eye on companies selling similar products within your area and ensure you take adequate measures to protect and grow our business from pressures. Pre-inform your management team and take measures to ensure Sun King remains a paramount brand name in Solar products for your area.
• Resolve customer issues: Provide world-class customer service to your customers as it relates to product delivery, training on how to use and make payments, installation, after sales warranty issues. Ensure that you work with your Energy Officers to establish clear expectations and processes to resolve all customer issues within 24 hours.
• Control Marketing & Other  spend: Provide adequate marketing materials & equipment (such as smartphones) necessary to all your Energy Officers. Ensure we get maximum return on investment for all the costs we incur in areas of marketing, supply chain, store maintenance and smartphone issuance.
• Review meetings with Energy Officers: Conduct weekly table meetings with Energy Officers and ensure that you have RBM present in those meetings to resolve any outstanding customers or EO issues. Coordinate, plan and organize the meeting to have maximum attendance and progress. Recognize outstanding performers from time to time and ensure the motivation of Energy Officers is maintained at an all-time high.
• Grow Retail presence: Ensure the retail network in your Area grows with the help of an Area Retail Coordinator, hired under you. Ensure all retail related activities are followed per process and the base of high-selling retailer grows exponentially within your area of operation.

You might be a strong candidate if you:

• Have a degree in a Business-related field OR equivalent and at least 3 years hands on experience in Sales.
• Have excellent Computer knowledge with comprehensive knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint
• Have extensive Customer Care experience
• Are innovative, and you think out of the box
• Are skilled in Planning, Organizing, Prioritizing, maximizing value and see the big picture 
• Are able to skillfully builds relations, works on internal & external relationships
• Listens well, coaches’ others and is disciplined in their learning practice
• Has Operation Excellence (Keeps promise, seeks to be informed and gives excellent Customer Satisfaction

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About the role:

• Sun King is looking for an Associate to join its Stock Management team in Nigeria. The Stock Management Associate will work closely with the operation team in Nigeria to ensure the organisation has adequate capacity to build new business units and expand existing operations in the region.

What you would be expected to do:

• Manage inventory within the warehouse, reporting goods received and inventory levels at the zonal warehouse level
• Work with third party transporters to ship goods to Sun King stores on time and in good condition
• Ensure all deliveries to Sun King Stores are cost effective using Third party transporters working with the Company
• Scan in and out Sun King inventory on a serial basis
• Coordinate with central (HQ) warehouse to receive stock
• Communicate any inventory shortage, theft, or loss at the zonal warehouse
• Prepare weekly on hand stock report for all shops in region and make the report available for the Country Store manager
• Check on store executives in region to ensure they are maintaining stability and reputation of the store by complying with legal requirements.
• Ensure all shops in region maintain proper shop etiquette and cleanliness
• Receive all faulty products received by the stores, ship back to HQ
• Perform physical inventory counts of the retail stores on a monthly/quarterly basis
• Ensure proper processes are followed by Sun King Store Executives (SSEs) in the respective regions
• Ensure the SSEs in region fully know their duties and role
• Review accuracy of weekly inventory/ marketing reports for region and aggregate the report to the HQ Ops team
• Train SSEs at their stores as needed
• Fill in for SSEs who are on personal/ medical leave
• Follow up on any stock losses or unexplained variances at the store Ensure SSEs write police reports if necessary

You might be a strong candidate if you:

• Are excited about joining a fast growing, entrepreneurial and innovative environment
• Are comfortable and experienced working in a multi-cultural and diverse environment
• Have a Bachelor’s degree or Higher Diploma in Supply Chain Management, or related discipline from a recognized institution
• Have a minimum of two (2) years’ progressive work experience in procurement and supply or inventory management in a multinational organization
• Possess a high degree of personal integrity and professionalism.
• Demonstrate sound judgment, people, communication, presentation and reporting skills
• Are result oriented with the ability to multitask
• Are a team player and can demonstrate ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with various stakeholders
• Have advanced computer skills g. Microsoft excel application
• Have experience working in ERP System and other inventory management application

What we offer (in addition to compensation and statutory benefits):

• An opportunity to grow as a professional in a dynamic, fast-growing, high impact industry.
• The chance to work in an open-minded, collaborative culture surrounded by enthusiastic Sun King employees who are driven by the challenge of continuously innovating and growing a smart, sustainable business with profound impact on the world.
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Academy.

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About the role:

• We are looking for a hungry, diligent, well organized team member to join our Risk department as an Area Collections Executive.
• The Employee will drive the efforts and processes related to collections of our PAYG products in the field.
• They will also give advice and suggestions on how to improve customer payments and satisfaction while ensuring that the company offer matches end-users expectations.

What you would be expected to do:

• Work on regional portfolio and repayment trends and laying down daily, weekly, monthly strategies to drive better collection rates from delinquent customers.
• Conducting mystery market visits to confirm the quality of sales and obtain different insights from different areas to enhance strategic direction to reduce problems of disabled lamps and repayments.
• Providing weekly updates to Sales and Risk management teams on-field interventions performed and results achieved, along with customer insights.
• Designing, piloting, and operationalizing collection processes necessary for ensuring better repayments and customer satisfaction.
• Working with Area Business Managers and Field Sale Executives to repossess products from delinquent customers on cases where direct intervention is required.
• Reporting any cases of product tampering observed in the field through the process and mechanism established by the Risk team.
• Facilitating reporting and actions to be taken against those perpetrating fraudulent practices in the field, such as product tampering, misinformed sales done by FSEs etc., as per the processes laid out by the Risk function.
• Training Agents (Field Sales Executives) on dealing with repossessions and difficult customer collection issues.
• Driving operating rhythm to follow-up with Agents (Field Officers) to ensure they are completing their collection calls and repossession tasks on time.
• Recruiting cash collection centres and set up for the key collection area.

You might be a strong candidate if you:

• Have Bachelor's degree/Higher Diploma related to Finance, Community Development, Communication, Credit Risk Management or related fields.
• Have at least 1 year of work experience in a similar position with field experience and also with rural customers settlements.
• Are enthusiastic about working in the field to drive collections, resolving issues, and enhancing the customer experience.
• Have strong experience from Microfinance/ Fintech or banking background on Credit Collections debt recovery preferable.
• Are good with numbers, 
• Have good communication & people skills
• Have clear thinking/problem-solving ability.
• Are enthusiastic about working with rural customers & resolve customers issues.
• Have excellent issue-tracking and resolution skills.
• Are able to manage multiple tasks at the same time diligently and accurately.
• Work with multiple sales teams and cross-functional teams seamlessly.

What we offer (in addition to compensation and statutory benefits):

• An opportunity to grow as a professional in a dynamic, fast-growing, high impact industry.
• The chance to work in an open-minded, collaborative culture surrounded by enthusiastic Sun King employees who are driven by the challenge of continuously innovating and growing a smart, sustainable business with profound impact on the world.
• A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
• Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Academy.