Organisation: Living Goods
Duty Station: Lira, Uganda
About Living Goods:
Living Goods is a non-profit organization headquartered in the United States and currently operating in Uganda. Its goal is to build a sustainable distribution platform for products designed to fight poverty and disease in the developing world. Specifically, Living Goods operates networks of independent entrepreneurs who make a living by selling cheap products to poor people that can help improve their health, wealth, and productivity. One of the selling techniques used by Living Goods entrepreneurs is door-to-door selling, and Living Goods has been likened to Avon Products in terms of its marketing style. The project aims to be fully self-funded at scale.
Job Summary: The Living Goods Branch Manager will play a key role in supporting Community Health Promoters reach the community with health information and sell health and better living products.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Agent Support and Motivation:
- Motivate agents to achieve health and sales targets. Work to support strong performers, to increase effectiveness of medium performers, and increase or remove poor performers.
- Make sure that all agents are maintaining target inventory levels month to month.
- Ensure all agents know and follow health protocols (esp. diagnosis and treatment)
- Implement marketing and promotional efforts to support agents sales goals.
- Assist in ensuring all agents are in compliance with regulations set by health authorities including compliance with standard treatment guidelines.
2. Financial Management: Oversee all Branch financial operations and ensure that the books balance: cash matches sales on a daily basis.
3. Operations: Ensure branch is clean, neat and welcoming to CHPs.
4. Manage Inventory:
- Ensure that all inventory is received with appropriate Delivery Notes.
- Ensure inventory is managed on a First in/First Out basis.
- Ensure no stock-outs occur at the branch for key products
- Manage operations to keep costs as low as possible.
- Manage relations between the implementing partner organizations.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant should ideally possess a Diploma in Business or Management or Health related areas.
- Past experience managing products or inventory.
- Prior working experience managing a sales team or field force.
- High entrepreneurial spirit and drive for results.
- The applicant must be able to motivate others, possess strong business skills, and want to be part of a cutting edge team that is setting the mark for a how a social enterprise can improve health impacts in a sustainable way
- Exceptional natural teacher, strong interpersonal skills
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills in English and Luo or Kiswahili.
- The candidate should also be highly flexible, and willing to be based in and travel across Lira district.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified candidates should send Cover Letters and CVs via email to [email protected], or hand deliver to our office at Plot 8, Spring Road, Bugolobi, Kampala, Uganda.
NB: Successful candidates will be contacted for an interview.
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