Vacancy title:
Area Trade Developers
Employment type: Contractor, Industry: Business Management and Administration, Category: Sales & Retail, Business Operations
Jobs at:
Sun King
Deadline of this Job:
Tuesday, November 17 2026
Duty Station:
Across the Country | Dar es Salaam
Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, November 3 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
About the role
The Area Trade Developers (ATDs), reporting to the PayGo Sales Manager, will be accountable for driving phone sales through the Retailers (ATD Agents) channel, working on collections and entire channel operations in their designated area. This is done through building an extensive network of retailers called “ATD Agents” who sell to customers walking, utilising the EasyBuy technology.
What you will be expected to do
1. ATD Agents Recruitment & Onboarding
- Identify, recruit, and onboard new phone-selling ATD Agents (Retailers) within assigned territory.
- Conduct field-based training on product knowledge, pricing, QOS Commission plan, and sales processes.
2. Inventory Management
- Stock Management: Forecast demand to prevent stockouts at retail shops.
- Coordinate with the assigned Sun King shop (AHQ) for inventory replenishment
- Ensure safe, timely delivery of physical smartphone stock to newly and existing ATD Agents.
- Facilitate the stock handling process (Sun King way)
3. Agent Productivity & Sales Targets
- Drive daily, weekly, and monthly phone sales (units & revenue) per ATD agent.
- Work with ATD agents to increase sales volume for each phone model
- Coach and work with low-performing agents with tailored action plans to be able to sell.
4. Portfolio Quality & Repayment Support
- Ensure agents follow the correct customer registration and PayGo activation steps.
- Monitor early repayment trends; intervene with agents showing high default risk.
- Manage phone replacement/warranty logistics at the ATD agent level to reduce customer complaints and improve collections.
5. Agent Engagement & Branding
- Distribute and maintain branding materials (posters, umbrellas, signage, uniforms, etc.) at every agent point.
- Conduct weekly one-on-one meetings with agents to review performance, resolve issues, and provide updates to the team.
- Ensure agents maintain minimum stock levels per product and follow inventory reconciliation processes.
6. Local Trade Activations
- Plan and execute daily localised activities (roadshows, market demos, door-to-door)in coordination with the marketing team.
- Identify high-footfall locations for temporary activation in peri-urban/rural areas.
- Recommend agents for rewards/campaigns based on sales and repayment performance.
7. Reporting & Administration
- Update trackers and tickets daily with agent visit logs, sales, and stock replenishment.
- Prepare a weekly territory performance report (sales by model, active agents, and onboarding).
- Flag stock shortages, fraud risks, or operational blockers to PayGo Sales Manager.
You might be a strong candidate if you
- Education/Experience: Diploma or degree in a business-related field, or 3+ years’ experience in field sales (FMCG, microfinance, mobile money, or telecom).
- Agent Management: Proven experience recruiting and managing independent agents or micro-distributors.
- Market Knowledge: Strong understanding of local markets (urban, peri-urban, and rural) and ability to navigate community dynamics.
- Digital & Reporting Skills: Proficiency in using smartphones (Android), CRM tools, MS Excel, and basic PowerPoint for reporting.
- Field Execution: Willingness to work in the field 5–6 days a week with strong problem-solving skills on operational issues.
What Sun King Offers (in addition to compensation and statutory benefits)
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.
About Sun King
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection.
Sun King has built a new kind of energy utility: distributed, green, customer-centric, and affordable. We bring clean, reliable, decentralized energy directly into people’s lives — from solar kits that provide first-time energy access to multi-kilowatt systems that serve both off-grid users and grid-connected customers powering larger homes, schools, hospitals, farms, offices, and light manufacturing.
Already, 25 million homes and businesses rely on Sun King for electricity supply and the appliances and services it enables: lighting, televisions, fans, refrigeration, and smartphones.
Sun King combines energy generation, energy-efficient appliances, installation, and financing into one seamless offering. Think of it as a distributed utility, designed for wherever energy is needed and designed to scale with its users as incomes and energy needs grow.
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ (PAYG) purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.14 a day via mobile money or cash.
Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 35,000 field agents — over 1 million payments each day. To date, Sun King has extended more than $1.4 billion in PAYG loans to customers.
Sun King began by powering homes and businesses with solar systems delivered through PAYG financing. Now, we’re using the same model to make smartphones and clean cooking equipment affordable: helping households connect to the digital economy and transition from wood-based fuels to modern, sustainable alternatives.
Sun King employs 3,500 full-time staff in 14 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families. Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 42% of Sun King’s workforce.
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 36
Level of Education: associate degree
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