Area Manager

Job Title: Area Manager

Locations: Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Ekiti, Kwara, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, and Rivers

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Purpose

• Drive the implementation of the company’s sales strategy within the assigned area to achieve customer acquisition and repayment targets.
• Lead and manage the territory team to deliver strong performance in sales, customer onboarding, and repayment collection.
• Oversee the end-to-end sales process, ensuring seamless customer acquisition, product installation, activation, and adoption of company applications/services.
• Recruit and develop a high-performing team through effective people management, coaching, training, and capability development initiatives.
• Ensure timely achievement of business objectives while fostering accountability and clear understanding of individual contributions to overall business performance.
• Support Lumos Nigeria’s growth ambitions by expanding access to clean, reliable, and affordable solar energy solutions for customers in both on-grid and off-grid communities across Nigeria.

Key Accountabilities

Increase sale revenue:

• Coordinate area sales activities and ensure synergy with other activities within and outside the department and contribute to developing and executing the state business plan.
• Implementing sales goals and communicating them to Territory managers and Lumos Community Partners (LCP).
• Preparing sales reports and submitting them to VP Community business.
• Follow up the sales figures against the set sales target on daily and monthly basis; provide recommendations for necessary actions.
• Conduct sales promotion activities within the assigned budget.
• Review sales operations in state ensuring operational objectives are accomplished, identifying trends, providing input into sales forecasting and ensuring optimum service levels are achieved and maintained.
• Attend sales team meetings on a periodic basis to communicate product strategies, upcoming objectives and exchange ideas on how to support partners to achieve their targets and promote products.
• Ensure prompt payment from customers and take necessary actions to minimize bad debts.
• Formulate policies that will drive adoption of the product.
• Drive premium subscription amongst customers joining
• Identify and formulate area sales strategies to help drive distribution across communities.
• Ensure expansions to align to the dimensioned number of active community partnerships.

Educational Qualifications & Functional / Technical Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Management or related Social Sciences.
• Fluent in English.
• A Master's in Business Administration would be an additional qualification.
• 8 - 10 years of varied experience in Sales & Marketing with at least 4 years at middle management level in supervising / managing others.
• Relevant experience in the telecom, microfinance, insurance, renewable energy, or FMCG industry is desirable.
• Experience working in multi-level marketing is an added advantage.
• Proven work experience in the power / energy industry.
• Proven track record in sales/ distributor account management.
• Customer management experience.

Key Functional Competencies:

• Business Performance Measurement & Management.
• Computer & Information Technology Appreciation.
• Marketing and Sales Acumen.
• Planning and Budgeting.
• Product & Service Advice & Support.
• Sales Planning and Opportunity Management.
• Sales Tracking and Reporting.
• Excellent communication and Managerial skills.
• The ability to work under stress and resolve conflict.
• Sales Forecasting.
• Have solid knowledge of the sales terrain.

Salary

N560,000 - N600,000 monthly.

Application Closing Date

26th October, 2026.