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Regional Field Manager

Living Goods (LG) is seeking a Regional Field Manager to oversee multiple LG Branches in Kenya which support Community Health.

As a Regional Field Manager you must have strong business skills, be highly analytical and pay attention to detail, while inspiring and motivating others. Reporting to the Kenya Field Operations Director, you will be a key contributor to drive sales and health impact. This position requires significant travel throughout Kenya.

Responsibilities
Your primary goal is to maximize the performance of the branches in your region both in term of sales and health impact. To do so your responsibilities includes:

· Build and develop high-performing branch teams: manage, motivate and develop branch managers and support branch teams to increase efficiency and overall performance (CHVs and operations).

· Coach, support and train teams on CHV support including monitoring of CHV performance both in sales and health and motivation.

· Supervise branch operations including coordinating with other departments to better serve customers & CHVs. Account for branch operational performance including P&L, inventory and credit management.

· Implement across branches new initiatives (for instance, mentorship programs, new delivery systems to CHVs, new credit systems, etc) as well as marketing and promotional efforts to support CHV sales goals.

· Support branch teams with mapping and CHV recruitment.

· Support the branch manager to build relationships with key partners in the region including the County Health Teams and other operating partners working with CHVs.

Qualifications

· Undergraduate degree in business, management or health related areas.

· At least 5 years supervisory experience of a sales team, a micro-finance banking team or a field force.

· Track record in motivating teams to excel.

· Unimpeachable integrity.

· Entrepreneurial spirit and drive for results.

· Exceptional natural leader with strong interpersonal skills.

· Bottom of the pyramid and/or social enterprise experience a plus.

· Strong analytic skills.

· Strong computer skills.

· Excellent written and verbal communications skills in English.

· Others languages spoken in Kenya a
plus.

· Flexible and willing to travel within Kenya more than 80% of the time.

How to Apply

To apply for this position please visit our career page and apply for Regional Field Manager through our applicant tracking system. Successful applicants will be contacted for an interview.

What is Living Goods?

Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro-entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook stoves, and solar lights.

Living Goods seeks nothing less than a disruptive reinvention of distribution in emerging markets, through networks of franchised micro-entrepreneurs who leverage Living Goods’ brand, buying power and 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 underserved communities.

Living Goods has been featured in The New York Times, NBC News, The Economist, and *The Huffington Post. Check out these articles and more on our press page*.**

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 will thrive at Living Goods. See www.livinggoods.org/principles.

How to Apply:

To apply for this position please visit our career page and apply for Regional Field Manager in our applicant tracking system. Successful candidates will be contacted for an interview. DEADLINE: August 31st, 2017.

For more information about Living Goods, please visit:

www.livinggoods.org

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