Sales and Marketing Manager
Location: Nairobi,
Kenya
Job Type: Full time employee, Management
Background
Job Type: Full time employee, Management
Background
We are combining business and clinical innovations to provide
affordable and friendly maternity and reproductive health services to
low-income urban women.
We are running mobile clinics, have launched our first maternity
hospital, and plan for rapid expansion within Nairobi and beyond.
Please visit www.jacarandahealth.org for more details.
Job Description
Job Description
We are looking for a seasoned Sales and
Marketing Manager to join
our team and create the demand to fuel our growth.
These responsibilities include sales, marketing, partnerships,
and wider business development, as part of the Jacaranda Health management
team.
Jacaranda Health is a start-up organization in the early days of
its growth.
This role will require spending substantial time in the
communities in which we operate, recruiting customers personally as well as
overseeing our community mobilizers and sales reps.
The candidate we seek has experience designing and executing
sales and marketing efforts.
He/she has recruited and trained high performance teams,
negotiated high level partnerships, continually outperformed sales targets and
developed and executed marketing campaigns.
He/she is able to track numbers to evaluate marketing efforts
and enjoys working in the field and building success one customer at a time.
Above all, this person must be a passionate believer in our
vision and devoted to improving global maternal healthcare.
Duties and Responsibilities
Duties and Responsibilities
- Executing
Jacaranda’s vision to become one of the fastest growing health care
organizations in the history of East Africa
- Generating
client traffic in our facilities and hitting aggressive sales targets
- Building
a high performance sales and marketing organization, primarily consisting
of community health workers
- Collecting
feedback from customers, encouraging them to invite others, and ensuring
high levels of customer satisfaction
- Establishing
a culture that is continually testing new concepts for sales and marketing
in a rapid way
- Establishing
and growing demand-side partnerships
- Managing
suppliers, designers, consultants and other marketing resources
- Developing
and implementing a clear, innovative and creative marketing and sales
strategy
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelor’s
degree (or higher) in a relevant field
- 5+
years of management experience in sales, marketing, or business
development
- Preference
given to experience in marketing to lower-income communities and marketing
services versus products
- Hands-on
approach to getting things done with strong worth ethic and a sense of
urgency in solving problems
- Can
manage many tasks with a high level of independence
- Strong
computer and office skills. Must be able to design and execute partnership
agreements, presentations, proposals, etc.
- Excellent
verbal and written communications skills in English and Swahili
- Fervent
passion for improving the health and well-being of all mothers and
children in East Africa
- Loves
people. You must be outgoing, friendly and able to relate to people well,
including expectant mothers
- Must
be a strategic thinker and a person who takes initiative
To Apply
Interested candidates may apply by:
1. Completing
the online form available by clicking here: Marketing Manager Application Form - Jan 2013 or
by pasting this link into your web browser: http://goo.gl/EOS0V
2. Submitting
the current resume’ and cover letter to jobs@jacarandahealth.org.
Only applicants that have completed the online form as well as submitted their CV will be considered.
Only applicants that have completed the online form as well as submitted their CV will be considered.
No calls please.
Unfortunately, due to the volume of applications received, we
will be unable to confirm all submissions.
Preference will be given to applications submitted by January
30th, 2013.
