Area Sales Manager, Solar Inverter (South South)

Department: Partnerships Sales

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Nigeria

Reporting To: Retail Manager West and Centra Africa

Description

What you would be expected to do

• Be accountable to achieve the quarterly and yearly Operating Plan for Inverter Sales in your region (3.3KVA & 5KVA). 
• Recruitment and onboarding of partners
• Be accountable for timely and accurate forecasting of pipeline Inverter sales per normal reporting cycles within the region.
• Provide input to and contribute to the formulation of the yearly business planning cycles.
• Execute Go-to-market strategy in conjunction with your line manager in order to cover the prioritized potential and business opportunities.
• Aligning territories to market potential, priorities and assign optimal account management.
• Ensure all direct reports have clear opportunity management activity and relationship building plans to ensure efficient coverage of territories.
• Drive performance management within the team, providing a regular operating mechanism of feedback, coaching, and managing the annual appraisal system.
• Maintain up to date market knowledge related to the full Sun King Inverter range, communicate   intelligence and propose strategies.
• Reporting on sales activities and managing inverter sales pipeline

• Recruitment and Retention of state sales teams through proper training, management, and performance review.
• Recruitment, Training and Onboarding of direct reports to respective locations.
• Communicate Sales Targets to the Inverter team in your region and develop Daily, Weekly and Monthly rigor to ensure achievement.
• Develop RTM for your region to develop prospects by conducting key establishments including schools, churches, supermarkets, malls, restaurants, hospitals etc.

• Organized Institutional sales including HORECAs, SMEs, Hospitals, Estate Developers, Big Electronics outlets
• Build partnerships with Key Retail Chains for shop-in-shop sales
• Brand presence in Trade fairs and corporate events.
• Develop targeted marketing activation campaigns in high traffic locations including malls, 
• Develop a client feedback and resolution dashboard to track customer issues and improve satisfactions.

You might be a strong candidate if you

• Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent in Business, Engineering, Marketing, or a related field.
• Have a minimum of 4 years in technical sales with practical field sales experience managing teams in vast geographies. within your purview. 
• Excellent Communication skills.
• Have excellent Computer knowledge with comprehensive knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint.
• Have highly innovative skills, thinking out of the box, cost conscious.
• Are excellently skilled in Planning, Organizing, Prioritizing, maximizing value and seeing the big picture.

What Sun King Offers

• Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
• An open-minded, collaborative culture with enthusiastic colleagues driven by the challenge of innovation and making a profound impact on people and the planet.
•  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 Center for Leadership.