Technical Sales Representative

About Easy Solar

Easy Solar is a West African company transforming the way households and businesses live, work and play; by making high-quality energy products affordable and accessible. Our market ranges from off or partial grid households and businesses to customers looking to supplement their energy needs. Easy Solar distributes a range of solar products, appliances and complementary lifestyle products, while providing customers with consumer-financing solutions through mobile technology. The technology enables customers to make small payments over time until they own the product outright. Sales are done through our ever-expanding network of agents and shops across the country.

Easy Solar is currently operational in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and our products and services have reached over 1,000,000 people since launching operations in 2016.

About The Role

Easy Solar’s current operations are supported by sales managers and sales supervisors who manage a large team of agents, running local shops and stores, who  in turn are in charge of daily interactions with Easy Solar’s customers. We are looking to hire a Sales Representative with extensive experience within the Corporate Community in Sierra Leone to develop a new sales channel by selling directly to companies, NGOs, organizations and governmental or para-governmental agencies.

General Duties and Responsibilities

The Sales Representative will be in charge of:

• Growing Sales and Marketing

  • Identifying potential corporate customers and developing innovative ways to market company products on a regular basis

  • Submit proposals to clients, do active follow-up with potential customers, and try to work to close the sale.

  • Actively pursue business opportunities with large scale factories/industries proposing large scale solar installations, and grow the C&I side of the business.

  • Prepare bids for upcoming tenders from various agencies such as NGOs, Govt.

  • Expanding the Power Solutions in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea

•  Supporting Management Team

  • Report to Senior Management team about performance variables, cross-sales opportunities and competitors’ strategies

  • Collaborate and share best practices with Management and other Easy Solar employees (Support will also be provided by line manager in collaborating and sharing best practices with the Technical Sales Representative)

• Team

  • Work with and build a team of Solar Engineers focused on in Sierra Leone

  • Work with the Business Development Lead to build a team of Sales Engineers in Sierra Leone and  Liberia

Required Skills, Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree In Science or Engineering.

• Minimum of 5 years of sales experience within Sierra Leone or similar geographies

• Dynamic, target-driven and highly motivated self-starter that possesses a hands-on approach and social competencies for teamwork and management

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Fluency in English is a must and an understanding of Krio and other local languages would be an added advantage

• Sound knowledge of sales reporting, lead tracking and customer management

• Computer literacy (including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)

• Creative approach in identifying new sales opportunities and customer engagement

• Strong customer service orientation

• Willingness to travel regularly in the assigned geographic area

What We Offer

• A very attractive, performance-based, remuneration with benefits

• Plenty of opportunities to grow within the company and take management positions

• The opportunity to take part in Sierra Leone's most exciting entrepreneurial companies that has a strong commitment to outstanding customer service, user-friendly, high-quality life-changing devices and environmental sustainability

• Frequent coaching and training

• The opportunity to work closely with a young, international, tech-driven team of renewable energy enthusiast