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We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Phone Business Manager - East Zone
Locations: Edo and Delta
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: EasyBuy Direct Sales
Reporting To: Country Business Manager Paygo Phone (Nigeria)
Area of Coverage: East Central, Delta, South East, Riverline, and South South regions
About the role:
- The Phone Business Manager – East Zone is a senior sales professional who takes full strategic and tactical accountability for Sun King's B2C PayGo Phone business across the East Zone.
- Reporting to the Country Business Manager, the role manages the zonal phone team; including Area Phone Business Managers, to increase and convert the zone's Sun King agent network into a productive phone-selling strength, delivering zonal revenue, depth, and credit-quality targets in line with the national channel plan.
What you would be expected to do
Strategy and Management:
- Translate the national B2C PayGo Phone strategy into a clear East Zone execution plan, setting regional and area-level targets for revenue, phones per selling agent, and market penetration.
- Manage, mentor, and manage the East Zone phone team; including Area Phone Business Managers, to deliver on zonal goals and performance KPIs.
- Drive agent recruitment, engagement, and retention across the zone to grow and maintain a high-performing base of phone-selling agents in all five regions.
Agent Network Growth & Management:
- Implement programs to increase the percentage of Sun King agents in the zone diligently selling PayGo phones and to deepen phones sold per selling agent.
- Through Area Phone Business Managers, drive recruitment, onboarding, and activation of PayGo Phone sales agents, ensuring capable field coverage across all 42 areas of the zone.
- Build strong relationships with top-performing agents and agent groups across the zone to foster commitment, gather field intelligence, and drive productivity.
Sales & Repayments (Collections) Performance:
- Own the end-to-end sales cycle, from agent recruitment to customer acquisition and repayment collections.
- Implement and monitor a rigorous system for tracking customer repayments.
- Develop and enforce effective follow-up procedures (e.g., via SMS, call centers, field agents) to minimize arrears and defaults.
- Work closely with the Finance and Credit Risk teams to evaluate repayment data, identify risk patterns, and implement strategies to improve collection rates.
- Ensure the team provides excellent customer service to resolve issues that may affect repayments.
Channel Profitability & Operational Excellence:
- Deliver the profitability of the East Zone phone channel through disciplined cost management, adherence to pricing strategy, and tight inventory control at zonal and area level.
- Use data-oriented insights to identify zonal trends, risks, and opportunities; translating them into actionable regional and area plans.
- Coordinate inventory forecasting, stock allocation, and last-mile logistics to ensure product availability across all agent touchpoints in the zone.
- Ensure compliance with brand standards, sales processes, credit quality requirements (including PAR30 discipline), and financial controls across the zone's agent network.
You might be a strong candidate if you
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Sales, Marketing, or a related field.
- Minimum of 6+ years of sales experience, with at least 3 years in a regional sales management role.
- Proven, hands-on experience in managing Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG; phones strongly preferred; solar an advantage), microfinance, or consumer goods sold on credit/installment plans.
- Deep comprehension of collections processes and credit management in a low-income customer segment.
- Have strong territorial sales experience across the East; Edo, Delta, and the South East/South South states.
- Excellent evaluation skills with proficiency in using data to drive resolution