{"id":54868,"date":"2018-04-26T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistnigeria.com\/?p=54868"},"modified":"2018-04-26T13:10:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T12:10:43","slug":"greenlight-planet-new-job-vacancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistnigeria.com\/greenlight-planet-new-job-vacancy.html","title":{"rendered":"Greenlight Planet New Job Vacancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greenlight Planet is a social, for-profit business that designs, distributes, and finances solar-powered home energy products, with an undeserved population in mind: the 1.3 billion global consumers for whom the old-fashioned electrical grid is either unavailable or too expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Over a decade in business, the company is now a leading global brand in emerging markets across Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Greenlight\u2019s Sun King\u2122 products provide modern light and energy to 30 million people in more than 60 countries.<\/p>\n<p>We are recruiting to fill the position below:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Title:\u00a0Field Manager, New Products and Services<br \/>\nLocation:<\/strong>\u00a0Lagos, Nigeria<br \/>\n<strong>Job type:<\/strong> Full-time<br \/>\n<strong>Reporting to:<\/strong> VP of New Products and Services<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nThe Role<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Field Manager will evaluate new product opportunities and organize trials for them on the ground in the Nigerian market.<\/li>\n<li>This manager will work with office teams across Africa, where new ideas will be exchanged and pilots will be tweaked to suit the country\u2019s market.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Responsibilities\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nDefine competitive commercial offers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gain a deep understanding of customer needs\u2014what are the energy needs, where do customers\u2019 revenues come from, how they vary over time, how customers make investment decisions, what is the best payment plans.<\/li>\n<li>Learn from existing solar operations and overall energy access market and define competitive customer offers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Evaluate opportunities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evaluate prospective products and technologies, including competitive landscape of the product and operational model (both in terms of existing product supply \/ technology innovation and in terms of distribution strategy).<\/li>\n<li>Establish the systems and process to determine whether to introduce new products to Greenlight Planet clients.<\/li>\n<li>Research the market and existing competition. Research customer demand and needs and market trends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Research and Pilot:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work with Greenlight Planet\u2019s direct-to-consumer sales force to launch and manage experiments and product pilots, collecting feedback to distill insights from end customers and the distribution channel.<\/li>\n<li>Develop and share understanding of consumer needs \/ triggers for purchase \/ price sensitivity, as well as sales force needs and logistical challenges.<\/li>\n<li>Convert market \/ consumer \/ competitive insights into design input.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Product Management:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Upon successful pilot, plan and manage the product portfolio offering.<\/li>\n<li>Provide ongoing product feedback and drive product development plans.<\/li>\n<li>Align the product with customer needs and work with cross-functional teams\/partners to implement these objectives.<\/li>\n<li>Establish customer satisfaction and quality mindset throughout the organization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Requirements<\/strong><br \/>\nThe ideal candidate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Has prior experience in consumer research \/ insights, specifically in rural sub-Saharan Africa, and specifically with smallholder farmers, including focus groups, usability studies, and pilot programs that led to scale-up.<\/li>\n<li>Bachelor\u2019s degree in a technical background preferred.<\/li>\n<li>Is willing to spend 40-50% of his\/her time on the road<\/li>\n<li>Must be able to work under pressure<\/li>\n<li>Is a Creative thinker in driving innovation<\/li>\n<li>Demonstrated sustained passion for this type of research in one or multiple roles over multiple years.<\/li>\n<li>Deep experience with smallholder agriculture, rural consumer needs, and ideally solar-powered consumer products (lighting and multifunction solar home systems).<\/li>\n<li>Experience in marketing, sales, or similar role within consumer electronics, agricultural, and electrical or mechanics industry is an additional plus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are looking for someone who is driven, passionate and excited about the opportunity to bring honest, affordable, energy to homes in Africa and Asia.\u00a0 If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Salary<\/strong><br \/>\nGreenlight Planet offers a competitive salary, a fun, supportive work environment and opportunities for continued professional growth within a fast-growing global enterprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenlight Planet is a social, for-profit business that designs, distributes, and finances solar-powered home energy products, with an undeserved population in mind: the 1.3 billion global consumers for whom the&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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