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A Business that Changes Lives… Including Yours
What is Living Goods?
At Living Goods we believe the poor deserve better health, a better deal, and a chance at a better life. 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 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.
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 communicationsWillingness to be in the field, hands-on with LG’s sales force and clientsRegional sales managers will be based in major trade hubs across Kenya and require in country travel 40-60% of most months.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 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.
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