Safaricom Ethiopia would like to invite qualified and competent applicants to apply for the following vacant post.

1:  Executive Head of Department – Sales Strategy & Distribution Capability

Location: Addis Ababa

Role purpose:

Provide leadership in the creation and bringing to life a responsive route to customer (RTC) model that will create strong product availability in the market and accelerate both market penetration and customer acquisition. The role also defines and continuously develops robust channel execution capability.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:

Working with Others

Consciously takes steps to make the most of every conversation / interaction

· Identifies people’s needs, interests and motives to be able to influence the decisions they make

· Communicates simply to excite and engage people

· Pro-actively adapts own style and approach to build rapport, and work with others more effectively

· Builds and maintains strong relationships and networks

Operational Excellence
· Targets effort and resources on high-value, high impact activity.

· Focuses on achieving maximum performance and driving continuous improvement.

· Thinks about processes and problems cross-functionally and end-to-end.

· Uses knowledge of products, technology, process, systems and policy to solve problems.

Creativity and Innovation

Finds creative ways to exploit opportunities and solve problems.

· Takes risks and pushes what is possible.

· Experiments with unorthodox approaches.

Business Know how

Uses data and research to make decisions that are competitively and financially robust.

· Balances current and future needs.

· Thinks and acts like an owner of the business

· Acts in line with legal, regulatory, professional and ethical standards.

Working with Change

Responds flexibly to changing situations.

· Manages the business and people aspects of change to drive performance.

Project and Program Management
· Defines scope and deliverables in terms of time, cost, quality and business benefit

· Schedules activity and identifies resource needs, dependencies and synergies

Evaluates progress, mitigates risks and addresses issues

Functional Competencies:

Experience in launching and developing e-top distrbution system for telecom or banking / commercer company.

· Applies knowledge of industry/sector priorities, dynamics and operational structures to make business decisions that may involve an element of risk

· Correctly analyses the business issues and identifies appropriate action

• Acquires additional information to resolve specific business issues and inform decisions

• Understands and uses good judgment in guiding the business, negotiates well on its behalf and develops effective tactics based on knowledge of the organisation and the industry

• Creates PICOS and aligns them to strategy

• Gets results under tough conditions

• Creates a channel strategy to influence how customers contact us, and deliver admired service cost-effectively

• Maintains a detailed understanding of trends and competitive landscape impacting on Safaricom

• Have practical and robust grounding in operational and strategic issues facing the organisation

• Develop an understanding of the broader business world beyond internal business dynamics.

• Identifies innovative ways of providing extra value to Safaricom through partnering

• Aligns Safaricom and partner business objectives to achieve a win-win for both partners.

Skill and educational background

Must have technical / professional qualifications:
· Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field

· Research and development experience

· Minimum 8 years’ experience in a trade sales /development role & partner management

· Minimum 3 – years’ experience in a leadership (people management) role.

Desired

Experience in launching and developing digital / e-top distrbution system for telecom or banking / commercer company.

· Strong commercial acumen and business development skills

· Strong analytical and problem-solving Skills (statistics)

· Exceptional collaboration and leadership skills.

· Strong communicator -story telling and excellent listener

· Must be self-motivated, quick-thinker, and result oriented.

· English proficiency with excellent written and oral communication skills.

· Proficiency in Microsoft Office packages is mandatory. (MS Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Word).

Key performance indicator:

Commercial deliveries:

• Develop digital / Mpesa / Etop distribution channel.

• Customer acquisition targets

• Maintain Out of stock in the market below 2%

• Delivery of S&D revenue targets

PROCESS SIMPLIFICATION:

Number of processes documented.

• Number of RTC policies/ processes documented and operationalized.

• Processes digitized.

• Channel development initiatives:

• Number of successful National initiatives delivered.

• Number of successful regional specific initiatives delivered.

RESEARCH:

Industry bench marking engagements and the learnings obtained.

• Trade surveys done, learnings cascaded, and gaps fixed.

Financial Responsibility:
· Departmental budget management

· Channel P&L

Direct reports:

Capability management

· Platform Delivery management

· EKYC management

Application way

If you feel that you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary qualification and experience, kindly proceed to update your candidate profile on the career portal
 https://safaricom.bamboohr.com/careers/369

The closing date for receiving applications is Wednesday, 24th July 2024, 5:30 pm.