Our client is a leading regional company with headquarters in Uganda specializing in Seeds.
Our client is seeking to recruit a Sales and Marketing Manager in it’s management team.
Job Title: Sales and Marketing Manager
Reports to: General manager.
Department: Operations
Location: Kampala
Job Purpose: Maintaining and increasing sales of your company’s products.

Key responsibilities:
• Maintaining and increasing sales of your company’s products
• Reaching the targets and goals set for your area
• Establishing, maintaining and expanding your customer base
• Servicing the needs of your existing customers
• Increasing business opportunities through various routes to market
• Setting sales targets for individual reps and your team as a whole
• Allocating areas to sales representatives
• Developing sales strategies and setting targets
• Monitoring your team’s performance and motivating them to reach targets
• Compiling and analyzing sales figures
• Possibly dealing with some major customer accounts yourself
• Collecting customer feedback and market research
• Reporting to senior managers
• Keeping up to date with products and competitors
• To ensure maximum efficiency and profitability of the Branch whilst giving a high level of sales
• To maximize Branch profitability through the sales of our products (Seeds).
• Brand launching, Inventory Management & Promotional activity.
• Analyzing market trends, sales performance through channels
• To create and project and image both within the Branch and outside as a top class professional company.
• To device strategies for effective and real time market intelligence in order to stay ahead of competition.
• To submit the day end, weekend & month end reports to the management in timely manner which should reflect the current sales/service situation vis-Ã -vis sales plan, shortfall if any, corrective action plan to make up the short fall, future projection, major achievements, lost opportunities etc.
• To help and co-operate with the divisional heads in order to achieve the overall organizational objective.
• Personnel: Should work in conjunction with respective divisional heads like Product Head and Finance & Accounts dept.
• Operational: Authorized to operate the Branch to meet sales & service requirements and expectations within the budgeted norms.

If you are an entrepreneurial manager, passionate about improving the health of your community, you could be Living Goods' next Regional Field Manager!

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 cookstoves, and solar lights. As a Regional Field Manager you will play a key role in overseeing Living Goods Branches in Uganda by enabling Community Health Promoters to increase sales while positively impacting the health of their communities.

To excel in this position you must have strong business skills, be highly analytical and pay attention to detail, while inspiring and motivating others. Successful candidates will embrace the opportunity to join a cutting edge team that is carving a path for social business models to improve health in a sustainable way.

Responsibilities

The Regional Field Manager's primary goal is to maximize the performance of the branches in their region. They do this by investing in branch managers who perform at a consistently high level in terms of sales, coaching and mentoring of agents, and health impact and operational management.

Qualifications

Compensation

A highly competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity. The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.

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 the developing world, 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 the poor.

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 the poor. 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.

For more information about Living Goods, please visit: www.livinggoods.org or follow us@Living_Goods

To apply for this position please visit our career page and apply for Uganda Regional Field Manager through our applicant tracking system. In lieu of a cover letter you will be asked to answer a few short questions that will help us learn a little bit more about you and your interest in working with Living Goods.

HOTEL CHEF – KAMPALA, UGANDA
Our client, a leading Hotel in Kampala, Uganda is looking for a Hotel Chef to be responsible for the operations and supervision of their kitchen.
Job Summary
• Responsible for all food production
• Develop menus, food purchases specifications and recipes.
• Supervise Kitchen staff.
• Develop and monitor food and labour budget for the department.
• Maintain highest professional food quality and sanitation standards.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Plans menus for all food outlets at the hotel.
• Schedules and coordinates the work of cooks and other kitchen employees to assure that food preparation is economical and technically correct and within budgeted labour cost goals.
• Approves the requisition of products and other necessary food supplies.
• Ensures that high standards of sanitation, cleanliness and safety are maintained throughout all kitchen areas at all times.
• Establishes controls to minimize food and supply waste and theft.
• Safeguards all food preparation employees by implementing training to increase their knowledge about safety, sanitation and accident prevention principles.
• Develops standard recipes and techniques for food preparation and presentation which help to assure consistently high quality and to minimize food costs; exercises portion control for all items served and assists in establishing menu selling prices.
• Prepares necessary data for applicable parts of the budget; projects annual food, labour and other costs and monitors actual financial results; takes corrective action as necessary to help assure that financial goals are met.
• Attends food and beverage staff and management meetings.
• Consults with the Food & Beverage Manager about food production aspects of special events being planned.
• Cooks or directly supervises the cooking of items that require skilful preparation.
• Ensures proper staffing for maximum productivity and high standards of quality; controls food and payroll costs to achieve maximum profitability.
• Evaluates food products to assure that quality standards are consistently attained.
• Interacts with food and beverage management to assure that food production consistently exceeds the expectations of guests.
• In conjunction with F& B management team, assist in maintaining a high level of service principles in accordance with established standards.
• Evaluates products to assure that quality, price and related goods are consistently met.
• Develops policies and procedures to enhance and measure quality; continually updates written policies and procedures to reflect state-of-the-art techniques, equipment and terminology.
• Establishes and maintains a regular cleaning and maintenance schedule for all kitchen areas and equipment.
• Provides training and professional development opportunities for all kitchen staff.
• Ensures that representatives from the kitchen attend service line-ups and meetings.
• Periodically visits dining area when it is open to welcome guests.
• Support safe work habits and a safe working environment at all times.
• Perform other duties as directed
Supervisory Responsibilities
• Interview, select, train, supervise, counsel and discipline all employees in the department.
• Provide, develop, train, and maintain a professional work force.
• Ensure all services to guests are conducted in a highly professional and efficient manner.
• Ensure a safe working environment and attitude on the part of all employees in areas of responsibility.
Other Skills and Abilities
• Ability to interact positively with supervisor, management, co-workers, members, and the public to promote a team effort and maintain a positive and professional approach.
• Ability to produce a high volume of work in a timely manner, which is accurate, complete, and of high quality.
• Ability to come to work regularly and on time, to follow directions, to take criticism, to get along with co-workers and supervisors, to treat co-workers, supervisors and guests with respect and courtesy, and to refrain from abusive, insubordinate and/or violent behaviour.

Qualifications
• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Education and/or Experience
• Hotel or Food Production qualification
• At least 5-10 years experience in food production

Duties:
• Make operational decisions and manage the various components of the program dealing with M&E, will oversee data collection efforts and ensure both the Project Management Plan and results reporting meet the requirements of the project.
• Be in continuous communication with the USAID/Uganda mission, and will demonstrate an ability to take critical inputs, feedback, and assessments from evaluation partners to inform changes in program approaches and scale-up.
• Ensure that these and other program components are results-oriented.
• This individual will have a major focus on achieving results to assure that all partners on schedule.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Masters Degree in business administration or related area of study or equivalent work experience.
• Specialized training in M&E is required.
• Experience Requirements: Three (3) years or more of progressively responsible work experience in managing complex project of similar size. At least 5 years of monitoring and evaluation work at the supervisory level
• Fluency in English required; French preferred.