Uganda: Regional Field Manager
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.
Branch Team Management: Manage branch teams performance in planning fieldwork and oversight of all operations. Coach, support and train teams to be high-performing branch managers that ensure agents are maintaining target inventory levels and are motivated and engaged.Agent Recruitment, Support and Motivation: Support recruitment of new and replacement agents to meet growth goals. Coach branch teams to motivate agents to achieve health and sales target, while ensuring that agents know and follow health protocols (esp. diagnosis and treatment.)Work with branch teams to support strong performers while increasing effectiveness of weaker performers.Implement marketing and promotional efforts to support agent sales goals.Supervise branch teams to manage Branch financial operations and ensure that the books balance, submit monthly branch operations requisitions to ensure effective ongoing service to agents, and account for all branch expenses on a monthly basis.Supervise branch teams to manage inventory and coordinate and implement delivery routes to provide effective delivery to agentsSupervise branch teams to ensure all agents health reporting is complete, accurate and on-time.Qualifications
Undergraduate degree in business or diploma in Business or Management or Health related areas.At least 7 years supervisory experience of a sales team or field force.Track record in motivating teams to excel.Unimpeachable integrity.Entrepreneurial spirit and drive for results.Exceptional natural leader with strong interpersonal skillsExcellent written and verbal communications skills in English and Luganda.Strong analytic skillsStrong computer skillsFlexible and willing to travel within Uganda.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.
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