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Uzima Chicken Uganda is a social enterprise focused on making smallholder farmers healthier and wealthier. Uzima Chicken distributes an improved breed of chicken that is 4x more productive than local breeds in terms of egg and meat production while requiring the same level of management and care as the local chicken. Rearing a flock of 10 improved breed chickens can generate a 270,000 UGX net profit uplift for a smallholder family. With Uzima’s bird, rural households in Uganda can build income resilience, confidently pay for their children’s school fees, and introduce larger volumes of animal protein into their daily diets.

Uzima Chicken seeks to reach every rural household by 2025 and aims to be the leading smallholder-focused poultry enterprise in East Africa. In the past 2 years of operations, Uzima Chicken has attracted investments from AgDevCo, Acumen, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Uzima Chicken Uganda prioritizes hiring and developing Ugandan talent and offers significant professional growth opportunities and leadership development. Further, Uzima is committed to female empowerment across the company and is proud that 40% of staff are women.

Summary of Position
The Senior sales admin is responsible for supporting Uzima sales functions in overseeing the organization of order collection and order submission into DEAR and is also responsible for assessing the sales pipeline and giving updates to the sales team daily, coaching sales admins to ensure a smooth order process and generating and updating sales reports

The senior sales admin position demands a high level of professionalism, commitment and motivation, as well as great communication and interpersonal skills

Key responsibilities
• Ensure timely agent quotes creation and payment confirmation with finance.
• Analyze and cleanse the sales pipeline weekly, sharing updates with the sales team.
• Verify data accuracy in the order tool.
• Oversee dispatch lists to enforce 2-3 week waiting period policy.
• Coach sales admins on their roles and responsibilities.
• Develop monthly sales reports on target achievement.
• Update sales dashboard data.
• Manage sales fuel and stipend calculations.
• Organize sales team campaigns and programs (e.g., quarterly prizes, events).
• Report on district sales representatives’ onboarding/offboarding and follow up on agent compensations

Key performance indicators
• Developing monthly sales report on performance against targets
• ASM-DSR onboarding and offboarding report
• Weekly analysis of sales pipeline

Requirement and skills
• Proven work experience as a sales administrator or sales support agent
• Hands on experience with CRM software and MS office (MS excel in particular
• Understanding of sales performance metrics
• Excellent organizational and multitasking skills
• Team player with high level of dedication
• Ability to work under strict deadlines
• Certificate in marketing, sales or relevant field is a plus

Job application procedure

Interested in applying for this job? Submit your application now to careers.ug@uzimachicken.com

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