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Join our team at Fresh Life and contribute to sustainable urban sanitation while accelerating your sales career in a socially impactful venture
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Kisumu
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Fresh Life is a pioneering social enterprise in Nairobi, Kenya, with a mission to revolutionize sanitation in urban informal settlements. Our work emphasizes not just the importance of clean facilities but also sustainable waste management practices that contribute to the health and wellbeing of communities in Nairobi, Kisumu, and Eldoret. As a recognized leader in social innovation, we're looking for passionate individuals to join us in our efforts to achieve the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
- Lead sales initiatives, focusing on customer acquisition and retention within urban informal settlements.
- Achieve and exceed sales targets, goals, and quotas.
- Generate and convert new leads, ensuring high retention rates.
- Expand the customer base in your assigned territory.
- Diploma or degree in Business or a related field.
- 2-3 years of field-based sales experience.
- Residency in or ability to work within Kisumu's informal settlements.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
- Proven ability to meet sales targets in a demanding environment.
- Physical fitness to handle fieldwork.
- Ownership of a working smartphone for sales activities.
Fresh Life is an award-winning social venture based in Nairobi, Kenya. We undertake two exciting lines of work: We provide safe, sustainable sanitation services to residents living in urban informal settlements of Nairobi, Kisumu and Eldoret using end-to-end non-sewered sanitation solutions. We partner with cities to develop and deliver safe sanitation and waste management for urban residents.
The role entails customer acquisition and retention and leading the sales and customer life cycle. Duties and Responsibilities include meeting established sales targets, goals, and quotas within the assigned territory, generating new leads every month, ensuring that 80% of the new leads generated are converted, ensuring 100% retention of new customers month-on-month, and expanding the customer base in the assigned sales area.
Job requirements include a diploma or degree in any Business or related field of study, 2-3 years of previous experience in field-based sales, comfortable working in informal settlements of Kisumu, confident and persuasive communicator, good interpersonal skills, effective communicator, attentive to detail, strong problem-solving and interpretation skills, self-starter, flexible and adaptable, able to perform tasks without repeated instructions, demonstrate sound work ethics, and demonstrable experience in handling multiple customer demands, and target-based sales.
Benefits include working for an innovative company that has been recognized by the Gates Foundation as part of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals accelerator and by Fast Company as one of the 10 most innovative companies in the world doing social good and one of the 10 best companies in Africa.
Applicants must be physically fit and can walk/ stand for long hours and must have a working smartphone to make use of our Sales App. We will only consider candidates based in Kisumu.
Regen Organics/FreshLife is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. All qualified persons are encouraged to apply.
