Posted on :
16 Feb, 2017
16 Feb, 2017
WorldCover sells crop insurance to farmers in the developing world, starting with Ghana. We use remote sensing and data science to create a simple and affordable insurance product to protect farmers from drought. Our insurance policies are funded by investors through a marketplace model so we don’t directly take risk for payouts. We are a for-profit Public Benefit Corporation headquartered in New York City, backed by global venture capital investors and Y Combinator.
Our mission is to help families and small businesses manage risk from natural disasters so they can invest profitably and build a better future. We have significant traction in Ghana and are looking to grow there and additional markets in the next year. http://worldcovr.comWantedAn exceptional, innovative, and metric-driven team member to build a successful model for selling crop insurance to smallholder farmers.
Job Description
Job Title: Sales Innovation Director
We are not looking for a Sales Manager who grows our sales according to targets. Instead we are looking for an innovator who can experiment and develop a brand new sales model.
Some sales experience preferred, but most important is high energy, creativity, and a relentless, hypothesis-driven approach.
Job Location: Ghana, in one of Northern, Upper East, Upper West, or Brong Ahafo regions with significant travel throughout the country.
Duration: 2 year commitment to WorldCover, with 3-month review period.
Full-time job.
Job Responsibilities
As Sales Innovations Director, your primary responsibility will be to develop a new sales model from scratch, which:
You will be given 3 months to show initial results. If successful, you will oversee the roll-out of the model across Brong-Ahafo region, which will include hiring a dedicated Regional Sales Coordinator to carry out the new sales model.Then, you will grow into a broader role with WorldCover in which you will measure, monitor, and improve sales metrics (costs and revenues) across the organization in all regions we operate.
Your Responsibilities Include
Requirements
The REQUIREMENTS for this position are:
NOT Required Or Valuable