PEG Africa New Recruitment 2017

PEG delivers Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) asset-based financing to consumers who lack both access to reliable electricity and formal banking services. PEG’s anchor product, a basic solar home system that includes three lights, a phone charger, and a radio, allows consumers living on $5-10 per day to access clean light for working and studying after hours, avoid harmful air pollution from kerosene based lighting solutions, and also build credit for additional products and services over time. To date, PEG has raised $10 million and has 200 full time staff across Ghana and Ivory Coast.

Job Description

Job Title: Country Director

The Position

PEG has grown from 12 employees in Ghana, to 200 employees across Ghana and Ivory Coast in the last two years.  In addition to this, we have 200 commission based sales agents, 35 service centers in Ghana, and over a dozen investors and grantors. With this growth comes an increasingly amount of complexity to the overall operational management of the company.

The Country Director has oversight over sales, customer experience and operations and reports to the PEG Africa Group CEO.

The successful candidate will be therefore be responsible for:

• Hitting country wide sales, costs and revenue targets

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• Ensuring the continuation of a high performance / people focused culture at PEG

• Ensuring high customer satisfaction

• Work with CEO to implement company strategy

The successful candidate must have:

• Outstanding people skills

• Experience managing large operations, customer service and field sales teams in a fast moving environment.

• Experience working in Africa.

• French language skills are a plus.