Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Senior Account Manager job in Kenya - Cellulant

Cellulant is a mobile commerce company. It operates Africa’s number one mobile commerce network and aims to connect 100 million customers to its mobile commerce ecosystem. 
Cellulant was founded in 2003 and has currently operations in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Botswana and every year moving into new countries.
We are the mobile commerce partner of choice and our goal is to connect all of our corporate customers, including e.g. the top Pan African banks, various merchants, to the richest mobile commerce ecosystem in Africa, helping them provide better communication, and more services, and more value to their end consumers. 
We do that by providing services like mobile banking, mobile payments, music, information services and other mobile related services.
To be able to meet these aggressive growth expectations we need to grow our dynamic team.
We invite you to be part of that growth. 
We seek to recruit pro-active and self - driven individuals to fill the position below;
 
Senior Account Manager
The successful candidate will be responsible to manage a team responsible for exceeding realistic sales targets.
Key result areas
  • Manage and grow client relationships on multiple accounts.
  • Be responsible for account revenue growth
  • Respond to new business leads with innovative and well thought out proposals and presentations.
  • Be capable of selling the complete range of the company’s products.
  • Communicate the client's goals and represent the client's interests to the company.
  • Responsible for the success and satisfaction of the individual client relationships.
  • Grow the client relationship in terms of revenue generated and account profitability.
  • Develop position as confidante with senior managers within client organization, by providing regular two-way communication between the client and company, to provide strong company representation and set proper client expectations.
Required competencies
 
The candidate must:
  • Have a degree in business related field preferably marketing is desirable.
  • Have at least four years’ experience in marketing a product.
  • Have at least two years’ experience leading a team
  • Have strong people skills as well as management skills
  • Be fluent in both English and Kiswahili.
  • Have the ability to multitask and work under pressure.
Required skills
  • Good verbal and written communication skills
  • Customer service skills 
  • Strong organizational, time management and prioritization skills.
  • Able to take a creative approach to situations and problem solving.
  • A skilled team player.
Interested candidates are requested to submit their CVs and a convincing cover letter to pdc.recruitment@gmail.com indicating the job title applied for by 24th July 2013. 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.