About ENGIE Energy Access

ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services, and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable installments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers, and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025.

www.engie-energyaccess.com

www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa

Job Purpose 

Responsible for leading and managing a team of Acquisition & Collection Agents, Installation Technicians, Dual Contractors, and their customers – responsible for the full customer cycle i.e., Acquisition, Collect, Recover, Maintain, and Fulfil.

Responsibilities

• Business Management
  • Develop and implement the acquisition operational strategies within the allocated Region, as well as align with the Region acquisition targets.
  • Organizing acquisition activities and functions in the field to achieve targets, revenues, and desired quality of acquisition.
  • On-time and high-quality system installations at the customers’ premises or any other location as directed by ENGIE Mobisol.
  • Train Acquisition Agents, Dual Contractors, Collection Agents, Installation Technicians, Maintenance Technicians, and in applicable policies, guidelines, processes, and procedures.
  • Organizing and facilitating regular team meetings according to guidelines provided by Zonal Business Manager standards.
  • Mentoring each Acquisition Agent, Installation Technician, Maintenance Technician, Dual Contractor to enhance operational performance, motivation, and engagement.
  • Training and coaching of Acquisition Agents on topics including pitching, acquisition conversation, negotiations, closing, and building of strong and long-lasting relationships with customers.

• Stock Management and Coordination (this applies to the MySolShop and 3PDs assigned to your Area:
  • Provide weekly, monthly, and quarterly shop inventory status reports to the Inventory and Logistics teams.
  • Conduct monthly, quarterly, and End-of-Year physical stock audits (stock-taking) for the shop and/or 3PDs.
  • Responsible and accountable for the stock (New, Repossessed, Returns, Spare parts, and Demos) in the shops and/or the 3PDs.
  • Responsible and accountable for stock losses in the shops and/or 3PDs and for the recovery of the stock losses.
  • Adhere to and abide by the Asset Management and HSE policies of ENGIE Energy Access Tanzania.

• Managing Installation Technicians and MINTs
  • Coordinate Installation Technicians and Maintenance technicians to ensures systems are installed and maintained.
  • Support recruitment of new Installation and maintenance technicians in the acquisition Region.
  • Prepare the monthly installation monitoring report for the Zonal Service Coordinator
  • Review Control monthly commission payments and payroll follow up on faulty installations and inform Finance Department about deductions.
  • Ensure repossessions are aligned and coordinated effectively and efficiently with focus to both customer and business profitability
  • Identify the need for and recruit new contractors with support from Service Network Team Leader
  • Responsible for disciplinary for installations and maintenance technicians

• Portfolio Monitoring: 
  • Gathering benchmark data for assessment purpose and analysis of causes of portfolio deterioration.
  • Conduct initial assessment to establish the applicant's character to eliminate the risk of default.
  • Managing assigned portfolio by attending work-out categories that should be applied to customers in late repayment such as recovery, extension of grace period, rescheduling, or repossession.
  • Providing regular portfolio, compliance and routing report to the Supervisor as required
  • Ensure remedial action is taken when required to keep performance in line with business objectives.
  • Completing assigned tasks in line with applicable policies, guidelines, processes, and procedures.
  • Review and update credit and loan files.
  • Weekly planning and conducting field visits to undertake loan workout activities such as recovery, rescheduling or repossession and further find out why customers are not repaying and advise them on repayment options.
  • Handle customer complaints and take appropriate action to resolve them.
  • Follow up and solving all difficult cases that may involve missing customers, theft, forgery etc.
  • Informing and reporting to ZBM about weekly routing, field visits, and difficult customer cases which need either in-depth negotiation or legal measures.

• Subordinates Effectiveness: 
  • Managing the daily work and activities of shop acquisition and collection agents.
  • Deal with complex scenarios that may occur at the shop such theft, fire, violence etc.
  • Participating in the recruitment of new acquisition and collection agents and training of new and agents. 
  • Conduct periodic performance review of acquisition and collection agents.  

• Other  
  • Ensure Health, safety and environmental standards are adhered to, through Zonal Service Coordinators.
  • Undertaking any other duties which may be assigned by the Supervisor.

At EEA, we have high expectations for our managers. Each manager plays a key role in creating an exceptional experience not only for our customers but for every person on our team. Our managers help EEA realize our ambitious goals while developing their own leadership skills and facilitating growth for their direct reports. 

We believe that great managers:

• Deliver ambitious results: As a high-performing and accountable leader, you create an enabling environment for effective action and bold decision which contribute to successful delivery of results.
• Act with integrity: As an ethical leader you are honest, respectful, objective, and transparent. You create and build upon a foundation of trust and openness.
• Inspire and mentor the team: As an inspirational leader you walk the talk. You empower and coach your team with trust and humility.
• Are accessible: as an accessible leader, you develop and maintain deep connections with stakeholders through approachability and active listening.
• Ensure diversity and inclusion: as an inclusive leader, you ensure diversity and foster a sense of belonging.

Key Accountabilities:

1. Acquisition
2. Collections
3. Active Customers (Portfolio) Management
4. Customer Retention and Churn Management
5. Hub Profit & Loss Management

Knowledge and Skills

Experience

• 2+ years of relevant sales and operational management experience in a medium sized company
• Previous experience in a managerial position is an added advantage. 
• Experience in Customer Relationship Management
• Previous experience in Credit Management activities/roles

Qualifications

• Degree and/or experience in Sales and marketing, Business Administration, Microfinance or its equivalent.
• Ability and passion for coaching and training. 
• Strong ability in planning and organization. 
• Excellent Verbal communication skills with customer focus.
• Willing to travel/be assigned to work in any geographic area in Tanzania. 

Language(s): 

• Fluency in Swahili and English languages with excellent verbal communication skills.  

Technology:

• Experience in using Microsoft applications, computer, and smartphone literate.  

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, due to the large volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

ENGIE is an equal-opportunity employer, promoting diversity, and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement, or citizenship. Our differences are our strengths! 

About ENGIE Energy Access

ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services, and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable installments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers, and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025.

www.engie-energyaccess.com

www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa

Job Purpose 

Responsible for leading and managing a team of Acquisition & Collection Agents, Installation Technicians, Dual Contractors, and their customers – responsible for the full customer cycle i.e., Acquisition, Collect, Recover, Maintain, and Fulfil.

Responsibilities

• Business Management
  • Develop and implement the acquisition operational strategies within the allocated Region, as well as align with the Region acquisition targets.
  • Organizing acquisition activities and functions in the field to achieve targets, revenues, and desired quality of acquisition.
  • On-time and high-quality system installations at the customers’ premises or any other location as directed by ENGIE Mobisol.
  • Train Acquisition Agents, Dual Contractors, Collection Agents, Installation Technicians, Maintenance Technicians, and in applicable policies, guidelines, processes, and procedures.
  • Organizing and facilitating regular team meetings according to guidelines provided by Zonal Business Manager standards.
  • Mentoring each Acquisition Agent, Installation Technician, Maintenance Technician, Dual Contractor to enhance operational performance, motivation, and engagement.
  • Training and coaching of Acquisition Agents on topics including pitching, acquisition conversation, negotiations, closing, and building of strong and long-lasting relationships with customers.

• Stock Management and Coordination (this applies to the MySolShop and 3PDs assigned to your Area:
  • Provide weekly, monthly, and quarterly shop inventory status reports to the Inventory and Logistics teams.
  • Conduct monthly, quarterly, and End-of-Year physical stock audits (stock-taking) for the shop and/or 3PDs.
  • Responsible and accountable for the stock (New, Repossessed, Returns, Spare parts, and Demos) in the shops and/or the 3PDs.
  • Responsible and accountable for stock losses in the shops and/or 3PDs and for the recovery of the stock losses.
  • Adhere to and abide by the Asset Management and HSE policies of ENGIE Energy Access Tanzania.

• Managing Installation Technicians and MINTs
  • Coordinate Installation Technicians and Maintenance technicians to ensures systems are installed and maintained.
  • Support recruitment of new Installation and maintenance technicians in the acquisition Region.
  • Prepare the monthly installation monitoring report for the Zonal Service Coordinator
  • Review Control monthly commission payments and payroll follow up on faulty installations and inform Finance Department about deductions.
  • Ensure repossessions are aligned and coordinated effectively and efficiently with focus to both customer and business profitability
  • Identify the need for and recruit new contractors with support from Service Network Team Leader
  • Responsible for disciplinary for installations and maintenance technicians

• Portfolio Monitoring: 
  • Gathering benchmark data for assessment purpose and analysis of causes of portfolio deterioration.
  • Conduct initial assessment to establish the applicant's character to eliminate the risk of default.
  • Managing assigned portfolio by attending work-out categories that should be applied to customers in late repayment such as recovery, extension of grace period, rescheduling, or repossession.
  • Providing regular portfolio, compliance and routing report to the Supervisor as required
  • Ensure remedial action is taken when required to keep performance in line with business objectives.
  • Completing assigned tasks in line with applicable policies, guidelines, processes, and procedures.
  • Review and update credit and loan files.
  • Weekly planning and conducting field visits to undertake loan workout activities such as recovery, rescheduling or repossession and further find out why customers are not repaying and advise them on repayment options.
  • Handle customer complaints and take appropriate action to resolve them.
  • Follow up and solving all difficult cases that may involve missing customers, theft, forgery etc.
  • Informing and reporting to ZBM about weekly routing, field visits, and difficult customer cases which need either in-depth negotiation or legal measures.

• Subordinates Effectiveness: 
  • Managing the daily work and activities of shop acquisition and collection agents.
  • Deal with complex scenarios that may occur at the shop such theft, fire, violence etc.
  • Participating in the recruitment of new acquisition and collection agents and training of new and agents. 
  • Conduct periodic performance review of acquisition and collection agents.  

• Other  
  • Ensure Health, safety and environmental standards are adhered to, through Zonal Service Coordinators.
  • Undertaking any other duties which may be assigned by the Supervisor.

At EEA, we have high expectations for our managers. Each manager plays a key role in creating an exceptional experience not only for our customers but for every person on our team. Our managers help EEA realize our ambitious goals while developing their own leadership skills and facilitating growth for their direct reports. 

We believe that great managers:

• Deliver ambitious results: As a high-performing and accountable leader, you create an enabling environment for effective action and bold decision which contribute to successful delivery of results.
• Act with integrity: As an ethical leader you are honest, respectful, objective, and transparent. You create and build upon a foundation of trust and openness.
• Inspire and mentor the team: As an inspirational leader you walk the talk. You empower and coach your team with trust and humility.
• Are accessible: as an accessible leader, you develop and maintain deep connections with stakeholders through approachability and active listening.
• Ensure diversity and inclusion: as an inclusive leader, you ensure diversity and foster a sense of belonging.

Key Accountabilities:

1. Acquisition
2. Collections
3. Active Customers (Portfolio) Management
4. Customer Retention and Churn Management
5. Hub Profit & Loss Management

Knowledge and Skills

Experience

• 2+ years of relevant sales and operational management experience in a medium sized company
• Previous experience in a managerial position is an added advantage. 
• Experience in Customer Relationship Management
• Previous experience in Credit Management activities/roles

Qualifications

• Degree and/or experience in Sales and marketing, Business Administration, Microfinance or its equivalent.
• Ability and passion for coaching and training. 
• Strong ability in planning and organization. 
• Excellent Verbal communication skills with customer focus.
• Willing to travel/be assigned to work in any geographic area in Tanzania. 

Language(s): 

• Fluency in Swahili and English languages with excellent verbal communication skills.  

Technology:

• Experience in using Microsoft applications, computer, and smartphone literate.  

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, due to the large volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

ENGIE is an equal-opportunity employer, promoting diversity, and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement, or citizenship. Our differences are our strengths! 

About ENGIE Energy Access

ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services, and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable installments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers, and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025.

www.engie-energyaccess.com

www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa

Job Purpose 

Responsible for leading and managing a team of Acquisition & Collection Agents, Installation Technicians, Dual Contractors, and their customers – responsible for the full customer cycle i.e., Acquisition, Collect, Recover, Maintain, and Fulfil.

Responsibilities

• Business Management
  • Develop and implement the acquisition operational strategies within the allocated Region, as well as align with the Region acquisition targets.
  • Organizing acquisition activities and functions in the field to achieve targets, revenues, and desired quality of acquisition.
  • On-time and high-quality system installations at the customers’ premises or any other location as directed by ENGIE Mobisol.
  • Train Acquisition Agents, Dual Contractors, Collection Agents, Installation Technicians, Maintenance Technicians, and in applicable policies, guidelines, processes, and procedures.
  • Organizing and facilitating regular team meetings according to guidelines provided by Zonal Business Manager standards.
  • Mentoring each Acquisition Agent, Installation Technician, Maintenance Technician, Dual Contractor to enhance operational performance, motivation, and engagement.
  • Training and coaching of Acquisition Agents on topics including pitching, acquisition conversation, negotiations, closing, and building of strong and long-lasting relationships with customers.

• Stock Management and Coordination (this applies to the MySolShop and 3PDs assigned to your Area:
  • Provide weekly, monthly, and quarterly shop inventory status reports to the Inventory and Logistics teams.
  • Conduct monthly, quarterly, and End-of-Year physical stock audits (stock-taking) for the shop and/or 3PDs.
  • Responsible and accountable for the stock (New, Repossessed, Returns, Spare parts, and Demos) in the shops and/or the 3PDs.
  • Responsible and accountable for stock losses in the shops and/or 3PDs and for the recovery of the stock losses.
  • Adhere to and abide by the Asset Management and HSE policies of ENGIE Energy Access Tanzania.

• Managing Installation Technicians and MINTs
  • Coordinate Installation Technicians and Maintenance technicians to ensures systems are installed and maintained.
  • Support recruitment of new Installation and maintenance technicians in the acquisition Region.
  • Prepare the monthly installation monitoring report for the Zonal Service Coordinator
  • Review Control monthly commission payments and payroll follow up on faulty installations and inform Finance Department about deductions.
  • Ensure repossessions are aligned and coordinated effectively and efficiently with focus to both customer and business profitability
  • Identify the need for and recruit new contractors with support from Service Network Team Leader
  • Responsible for disciplinary for installations and maintenance technicians

• Portfolio Monitoring: 
  • Gathering benchmark data for assessment purpose and analysis of causes of portfolio deterioration.
  • Conduct initial assessment to establish the applicant's character to eliminate the risk of default.
  • Managing assigned portfolio by attending work-out categories that should be applied to customers in late repayment such as recovery, extension of grace period, rescheduling, or repossession.
  • Providing regular portfolio, compliance and routing report to the Supervisor as required
  • Ensure remedial action is taken when required to keep performance in line with business objectives.
  • Completing assigned tasks in line with applicable policies, guidelines, processes, and procedures.
  • Review and update credit and loan files.
  • Weekly planning and conducting field visits to undertake loan workout activities such as recovery, rescheduling or repossession and further find out why customers are not repaying and advise them on repayment options.
  • Handle customer complaints and take appropriate action to resolve them.
  • Follow up and solving all difficult cases that may involve missing customers, theft, forgery etc.
  • Informing and reporting to ZBM about weekly routing, field visits, and difficult customer cases which need either in-depth negotiation or legal measures.

• Subordinates Effectiveness: 
  • Managing the daily work and activities of shop acquisition and collection agents.
  • Deal with complex scenarios that may occur at the shop such theft, fire, violence etc.
  • Participating in the recruitment of new acquisition and collection agents and training of new and agents. 
  • Conduct periodic performance review of acquisition and collection agents.  

• Other  
  • Ensure Health, safety and environmental standards are adhered to, through Zonal Service Coordinators.
  • Undertaking any other duties which may be assigned by the Supervisor.

At EEA, we have high expectations for our managers. Each manager plays a key role in creating an exceptional experience not only for our customers but for every person on our team. Our managers help EEA realize our ambitious goals while developing their own leadership skills and facilitating growth for their direct reports. 

We believe that great managers:

• Deliver ambitious results: As a high-performing and accountable leader, you create an enabling environment for effective action and bold decision which contribute to successful delivery of results.
• Act with integrity: As an ethical leader you are honest, respectful, objective, and transparent. You create and build upon a foundation of trust and openness.
• Inspire and mentor the team: As an inspirational leader you walk the talk. You empower and coach your team with trust and humility.
• Are accessible: as an accessible leader, you develop and maintain deep connections with stakeholders through approachability and active listening.
• Ensure diversity and inclusion: as an inclusive leader, you ensure diversity and foster a sense of belonging.

Key Accountabilities:

1. Acquisition
2. Collections
3. Active Customers (Portfolio) Management
4. Customer Retention and Churn Management
5. Hub Profit & Loss Management

Knowledge and Skills

Experience

• 2+ years of relevant sales and operational management experience in a medium sized company
• Previous experience in a managerial position is an added advantage. 
• Experience in Customer Relationship Management
• Previous experience in Credit Management activities/roles

Qualifications

• Degree and/or experience in Sales and marketing, Business Administration, Microfinance or its equivalent.
• Ability and passion for coaching and training. 
• Strong ability in planning and organization. 
• Excellent Verbal communication skills with customer focus.
• Willing to travel/be assigned to work in any geographic area in Tanzania. 

Language(s): 

• Fluency in Swahili and English languages with excellent verbal communication skills.  

Technology:

• Experience in using Microsoft applications, computer, and smartphone literate.  

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, due to the large volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

ENGIE is an equal-opportunity employer, promoting diversity, and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement, or citizenship. Our differences are our strengths! 

About ENGIE Energy Access

ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services, and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable installments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers, and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025.

www.engie-energyaccess.com

www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa

Job Purpose 

Responsible for leading and managing a team of Acquisition & Collection Agents, Installation Technicians, Dual Contractors, and their customers – responsible for the full customer cycle i.e., Acquisition, Collect, Recover, Maintain, and Fulfil.

Responsibilities

• Business Management
  • Develop and implement the acquisition operational strategies within the allocated Region, as well as align with the Region acquisition targets.
  • Organizing acquisition activities and functions in the field to achieve targets, revenues, and desired quality of acquisition.
  • On-time and high-quality system installations at the customers’ premises or any other location as directed by ENGIE Mobisol.
  • Train Acquisition Agents, Dual Contractors, Collection Agents, Installation Technicians, Maintenance Technicians, and in applicable policies, guidelines, processes, and procedures.
  • Organizing and facilitating regular team meetings according to guidelines provided by Zonal Business Manager standards.
  • Mentoring each Acquisition Agent, Installation Technician, Maintenance Technician, Dual Contractor to enhance operational performance, motivation, and engagement.
  • Training and coaching of Acquisition Agents on topics including pitching, acquisition conversation, negotiations, closing, and building of strong and long-lasting relationships with customers.

• Stock Management and Coordination (this applies to the MySolShop and 3PDs assigned to your Area:
  • Provide weekly, monthly, and quarterly shop inventory status reports to the Inventory and Logistics teams.
  • Conduct monthly, quarterly, and End-of-Year physical stock audits (stock-taking) for the shop and/or 3PDs.
  • Responsible and accountable for the stock (New, Repossessed, Returns, Spare parts, and Demos) in the shops and/or the 3PDs.
  • Responsible and accountable for stock losses in the shops and/or 3PDs and for the recovery of the stock losses.
  • Adhere to and abide by the Asset Management and HSE policies of ENGIE Energy Access Tanzania.

• Managing Installation Technicians and MINTs
  • Coordinate Installation Technicians and Maintenance technicians to ensures systems are installed and maintained.
  • Support recruitment of new Installation and maintenance technicians in the acquisition Region.
  • Prepare the monthly installation monitoring report for the Zonal Service Coordinator
  • Review Control monthly commission payments and payroll follow up on faulty installations and inform Finance Department about deductions.
  • Ensure repossessions are aligned and coordinated effectively and efficiently with focus to both customer and business profitability
  • Identify the need for and recruit new contractors with support from Service Network Team Leader
  • Responsible for disciplinary for installations and maintenance technicians

• Portfolio Monitoring: 
  • Gathering benchmark data for assessment purpose and analysis of causes of portfolio deterioration.
  • Conduct initial assessment to establish the applicant's character to eliminate the risk of default.
  • Managing assigned portfolio by attending work-out categories that should be applied to customers in late repayment such as recovery, extension of grace period, rescheduling, or repossession.
  • Providing regular portfolio, compliance and routing report to the Supervisor as required
  • Ensure remedial action is taken when required to keep performance in line with business objectives.
  • Completing assigned tasks in line with applicable policies, guidelines, processes, and procedures.
  • Review and update credit and loan files.
  • Weekly planning and conducting field visits to undertake loan workout activities such as recovery, rescheduling or repossession and further find out why customers are not repaying and advise them on repayment options.
  • Handle customer complaints and take appropriate action to resolve them.
  • Follow up and solving all difficult cases that may involve missing customers, theft, forgery etc.
  • Informing and reporting to ZBM about weekly routing, field visits, and difficult customer cases which need either in-depth negotiation or legal measures.

• Subordinates Effectiveness: 
  • Managing the daily work and activities of shop acquisition and collection agents.
  • Deal with complex scenarios that may occur at the shop such theft, fire, violence etc.
  • Participating in the recruitment of new acquisition and collection agents and training of new and agents. 
  • Conduct periodic performance review of acquisition and collection agents.  

• Other  
  • Ensure Health, safety and environmental standards are adhered to, through Zonal Service Coordinators.
  • Undertaking any other duties which may be assigned by the Supervisor.

At EEA, we have high expectations for our managers. Each manager plays a key role in creating an exceptional experience not only for our customers but for every person on our team. Our managers help EEA realize our ambitious goals while developing their own leadership skills and facilitating growth for their direct reports. 

We believe that great managers:

• Deliver ambitious results: As a high-performing and accountable leader, you create an enabling environment for effective action and bold decision which contribute to successful delivery of results.
• Act with integrity: As an ethical leader you are honest, respectful, objective, and transparent. You create and build upon a foundation of trust and openness.
• Inspire and mentor the team: As an inspirational leader you walk the talk. You empower and coach your team with trust and humility.
• Are accessible: as an accessible leader, you develop and maintain deep connections with stakeholders through approachability and active listening.
• Ensure diversity and inclusion: as an inclusive leader, you ensure diversity and foster a sense of belonging.

Key Accountabilities:

1. Acquisition
2. Collections
3. Active Customers (Portfolio) Management
4. Customer Retention and Churn Management
5. Hub Profit & Loss Management

Knowledge and Skills

Experience

• 2+ years of relevant sales and operational management experience in a medium sized company
• Previous experience in a managerial position is an added advantage. 
• Experience in Customer Relationship Management
• Previous experience in Credit Management activities/roles

Qualifications

• Degree and/or experience in Sales and marketing, Business Administration, Microfinance or its equivalent.
• Ability and passion for coaching and training. 
• Strong ability in planning and organization. 
• Excellent Verbal communication skills with customer focus.
• Willing to travel/be assigned to work in any geographic area in Tanzania. 

Language(s): 

• Fluency in Swahili and English languages with excellent verbal communication skills.  

Technology:

• Experience in using Microsoft applications, computer, and smartphone literate.  

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, due to the large volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

ENGIE is an equal-opportunity employer, promoting diversity, and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement, or citizenship. Our differences are our strengths! 

About ENGIE Energy Access  

ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable instalments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025.  

www.engie-energyaccess.com    

www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa 

Job Purpose/Mission  

Responsible for overseeing and managing EEA's overall supply chain, logistics & product strategy to maximize process efficiency, productivity and business profitability.  The role is also responsible for playing a crucial role in developing and maintaining good relationships with key internal and external stakeholders involved in the Operations, Supply Chain & Product process. S/he will work directly with the sales, customer service and engineering teams (Global & Country) to design, test, execute, analyse, and refine innovative operations systems and processes at Engie Energy Access while having significant impact on the P&L. 

This role has a large team management demand to products, lead production, logistics, inventory management, quality assurance, and refurbishment / repair teams of over 30 team members and continuously build the team for scale and efficiency. S/he is expected to create a culture of teamwork with a focus on quality, honesty, and integrity and hold the team accountable to those standards. To ensure success in this robust design and team training in collaboration with customer experience and commercial teams for full team focus on inventory management, minimizing shrinkage, health & safety, etc is expected. 

Responsibilities 

Inventory & Logistics Management & Process Improvement. 

• Forecast and complete monthly inventory orders from China (6-month lead time) through S&OP process 

• with key stakeholders to ensure adherence to mandated max. and min. country 

• stock levels. 

• Management of cost of production / kitting, distribution, warehousing, and other operations 

• expenses within budget but ensuring operational effectiveness. 

• Monitor and evaluate internal operation processes by collecting feedback from 

• stakeholders to continually evolve and improve our operations to better support. 

• the organization and our customers. 

• Effectively manage shrinkage rates and ensure process design and improvements are in place and constantly updated to minimize shrinkage in the warehouse (s) and in the field / at points of sale. 

• Implement strategies to control and reduce Slow and Obsolete Inventories to maximize inventory working capital optimization efforts in Zambia. 

• Build and maintain strong process structures for the coordination of periodic stock counts, audits and reconciliation with Finance team from physical count to ERP system (SAP) to internal inventory and sales database. 

• Strong coordination of up & down dream supply chains ensuring no delays or resulting stock outs. 

• Critically assess in-county logistics options, distribution routes, and costs to optimize supply chain efficiency of solar power systems, accessories, and after-sales service items. 

• Develop improvements for our last-mile sales and distribution processes and mechanisms to reduce/minimize the cost of distribution, cost of sale, and inventory shrinkage. 

• Ensure Compliance with Health, Security and Safety measures across all Operations & Products teams. 

Warehousing and Production / Kitting 

• Develop warehouse operations systems by determining product handling and storage, warehouse design by planning layout, product flow, and product handling systems. 

• Lead the scale up of operations at all warehouses and production facilities to maximize efficiency and reduce costs 

• Implement and continuously manage organizational best practices at the main warehouse and additional offsite storage facilities to ensure accurate stock records, maximize space usage and minimize costs. 

• Oversee production, quality assurance, inventory management teams and facilities to ensure high quality product outputs of sellable inventory and timely stock preparation and delivery. 

• Oversee refurbishment to ensure high quality product repair and refurbishment for customer service in the field and oversee refurbishment of items to be re-used as swap stock or re-sold to customers. 

Product Management  

• Responsible for the development and implementation of EEA Zambia’s long-term product pricing & strategy plans. 

• Create and curate the unit economics for your country’s product catalogue and pricing for Solar Systems and other upgrades:  

• Full ownership of R&D budget creation and evaluation  

• Drive cross-functional strategic initiatives and conduct strategic research by working with all other departments to implement these initiatives and ensure key milestones are achieved.  

• Support Global Software teams to develop, deliver and market EEA’s digital management service and other software products that enable sales of our core products.  

• Be local support for all digital products and main business contact for improvements and measurement working to improve efficiency and adoption of digital tools.  

• Support in-country digital support through trainings, onboarding, and query resolution.  

• Identify strategic issues, develop hypothesis, and communicate insights and recommendations to key decision-makers. 

• Drive product strategy for the depletion of Slow and Obsolete items. 

Customer Insights & Innovations 

• Evaluate industry trends and conduct a regular competitive landscape analysis of the solar home system market and energy sector in Zambia.  

• Identify, lead, and manage the development and implementation of innovative approaches to business challenges.  

• Work with teams across the company to deliver innovative solutions and improvements to enhance competitiveness and efficiency.  

• Undertake specific ad-hoc projects or initiatives at the request of the Country Director with the aim to increase momentum and actively track performance/progress. 

Required Skills & Experience  

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Logistics Management, Supply Chain Management, Business administration, Engineering, or a related field  

• Master’s degree in related field is an added advantage. 

• Maintains professional certifications in supply chain planning such as CSCP, CPIM, CLTD, CIPS, ACSIM or other relevant supply chain management association certifications are important. 

• 10+ years of experience in Supply chain, Logistics or Product management, preferably with 5+ years in leadership roles, with a track record of success. 

• Strong strategic thinking skills and a solid understanding of business dynamics  

• A solid understanding of product management tools and processes, including proficiency in agile methodologies, product lifecycle management, market research techniques, and data analysis. 

• Ability to prioritize departmental (SMART) goals and objectives  

• Ability to interpret data and make sound cost efficient decisions where needed, exhibit sound and accurate judgment. 

• Ability to forge positive relationships and communicate effectively with all levels of management and with all departments. 

• Show initiative by undertaking self-development activities, seeking increased responsibilities, and taking advantage of learning opportunities. 

• Excellent communication skills, experience with social media and other distribution channels with a strong command of English – written and oral;  

• Team player with flexibility to work in a dynamic and multicultural team with high interaction across different departments. 

Technology & Tools: 

• Experience with ERP systems such as SAP, NAV, Oracle is important. 

• Experience in implementing systems and adjacent workflows is an added advantage. 

• Experience with other inventory management and warehousing software such as WMS are an added advantage. 

• Advanced user analytics tools such as Tableau, Mzee, PowerBi, Excel, is an important skill for this role. 

ENGIE is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement or citizenship. Our differences are our strengths! 

Job Title: Software Engineering Manager

Department: Digital

Reporting line: Head of software Engineering

Location: Kampala or Berlin or Naiorbi

Job Grade: 17

About ENGIE Energy Access

ENGIE Energy Access is the leading Pay-As-You-Go (PAYGo) and mini-grids solutions provider in Africa. The company develops innovative, off-grid solar solutions for homes, public services and businesses, enabling customers and distribution partners access to clean, affordable energy. The PAYGO solar home systems are financed through affordable instalments from $0.19 per day and the mini-grids foster economic development by enabling electrical productive use and triggering business opportunities for entrepreneurs in rural communities. With over 1,800 employees, operations in nine countries across Africa (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers and more than 9 million lives impacted so far, ENGIE Energy Access aims to impact 20 million lives across Africa by 2025.

www.engie-energyaccess.com

www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa

Job Purpose/Mission 

EEA is looking for a talented, self-starting tech lead to join the team to help deliver affordable solar power and financial services across Africa. This position offers a great opportunity to work alongside an elite team of engineers and business professionals and directly contribute to the success of a mission driven company with social and environmental impact. Candidates will get the opportunity to work in a diverse technology stack at scale and lead the evolution of at least one of our software products.

Responsibilities

· Line management of a sub-set of the software development team (4-6 direct reports).

· Contract management with external developers(freelancers) in collaboration with Head of Software Engineering

· Work with engineering tech-lead to put in place clear performance management framework and provide actionable feedback and goals for the technical team

· Grow and develop software engineers

• Establish upskilling and training path, growth path
• Structured coaching and mentorship plan
• Institute processes to address performance gaps and ensure the team is technically competent

· Together with tech-lead, ensure effective onboarding of new engineers

· Recruit software team for their pillar and maintain a pipeline of candidates

· Together with tech leads, resource Management to align with key delivery milestones

· Actively participate and understand the ROI of engineering efforts, understand the value creation and the priorities to the business.

· Contributing to team culture (within the product team and broader digital team)

• Communication
• Technical excellence and knowledge sharing
• Team bonding

At EEA, we have high expectations for our managers. Each manager plays a key role in creating an exceptional experience not only for our customers but for every person on our team. Our managers help EEA realize our ambitious goals while developing their own leadership skills and facilitating growth for their direct reports.

We believe that great leaders:

· Deliver ambitious results: As a high-performing and accountable leader, you create an environment enabling effective action and bold decisions which contribute to successful delivery of results.

· Act with integrity: As an ethical leader you are honest, respectful, objective, and transparent. You create and build upon a foundation of trust and openness.

· Inspire and mentor the team: As an inspirational leader you walk the talk. You empower and coach your team with trust and humility.

· Are accessible: as an accessible leader, you develop and maintain deep connections with stakeholders through approachability and active listening.

· Ensure diversity and inclusion: as an inclusive leader, you ensure diversity and foster a sense of belonging.

Knowledge and skills 

Experience:

· At least 7 years of relevant experience of which 2 is in leadership role, with proven track record of leading a high performing engineering team

· Experience in resource management and capacity planning

· Practical and thorough understanding of the various software development methodologies, their application in different contexts and trade-offs

· Experience in hiring, onboarding and maintaining pipeline of engineers. Demonstrated ability to create suitable conditions to retain talent

· Knowledge of developer productivity tools and performance frameworks (DORA, SPACE, DevEx..) in the software space

· Ability to identify and address process gaps, culture issues and conflicts

· Hands-on, senior level competency of full-stack software development using relevant front and backend frameworks

· Entrepreneurial and forward thinking with ability to recognize the impact of technology in business

· Appreciation for detailed source code documentation and organized code structuring

· Software deployment pipelines and best practice (CI/CD)

· Excellent knowledge of computer algorithms and solid computer science fundamentals

Qualifications:

· Bachelors or Masters in a relevant engineering discipline (Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Computer Science preferred) or comparable

Language(s): 

· English

· French is a plus

Our Technology stack:

· Web framework: Rails 5 , Django, flask, fastapi

· Mobile: Android Kotlin/Java

· Background task: Sidekiq , Celery, RabbitMQ

· Front-end: ActiveAdmin, VueJS, Angular

· API: Grape, Devise , DRF, FastApi

· TDD: RSpec , PyTest

· Search: Thinking Sphinx

· Storage: MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis

· Source Control: Gitlab selfhosted for git and CI/CD

· Deployment: Capistrano, Ansible

· Fresh Ideas Always welcome!

We thank all applicants for their interest, however due to the large volume of applications we receive, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

ENGIE is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement or citizenship. Our differences are our strengths!

• Power the future, together with ENGIE!
• Champion the voice of customer for ENGIE retail
• Hybrid & located at our Freshwater Place offices in Southbank

ENGIE is a global energy player with over 97,000 employees across more than 30 countries. All of our teams’ efforts are unified in support of the transition to a carbon-neutral economy, by providing innovative energy solutions to households, businesses and communities.

Our global ambition, as a pioneer of the renewable energy transition, is to champion carbon-neutral energies and achieve an affordable, reliable net-zero energy system by 2045.

Zero. You may think it’s nothing, but to us at ENGIE… zero is everything!

The opportunity:

At ENGIE, we are equally  focused on growing our people, as we are on sustainability and the environment.

The CX team work with data driven insights to inform decision making around continuous improvements representing the Voice of Customer and Customer experience.

This CX Lead (12 month FTC), will report to the Senior CX Manager. This is an excellent opportunity to make a valuable contribution to customer journeys at ENGIE , within a collaborative and friendly environment.

Responsibilities will include:

• delivering the end-to-end Voice of Customer program from all forms of our customer data across multiple channels
• driving customer excellence, continuous improvement and innovation
• building customer journey mapping capability to deliver superior outcomes
• accountability to drive insight to action and delivery of a ROI from the CX investment
• Monthly voice of customer insights packs and associated actionable insights and plans

 About you:

• Experience with Voice of Customer and customer experience in a similar domain or industry
• Ability to manage diverse stakeholders and influence outcomes
• Adaptable and relationship oriented
• Analytical and able to synthesize qualitative and quantitative data points with impact
• Results driven & action oriented

Next Steps:
If this sounds like the role for you, we welcome your application.
All applicants must have unlimited rights to work in Australia.

Please note we consider applications on an ongoing basis and therefore encourage you to apply at your earliest opportunity.

ENGIE is an equal opportunity employer, promoting diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. All applications are screened based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without any regard to origin, age, carer’s responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, religion, marital status, health, disability or political opinions.  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people of the LGBTIQA+ community are encouraged to apply. Our differences are our strengths!

About us

ENGIE Australia & New Zealand is accelerating the transition to a carbon-neutral economy by providing innovative, sustainable energy solutions to households, businesses, communities and cities.

Our mission is to accelerate and support the transition towards a carbon-neutral economy, through reduced energy consumption and more environmentally friendly solutions.

We have over 1,000MW of low-carbon generation capacity and more than 3,00MW of renewable energy under development. Our retail business, has more than 700,000 customer accounts around Australia.

ENGIE’s trading arm, Global Energy Management & Sales (GEMS) provides long-energy supply agreements, energy trading, risk management and asset management services to business customers across the ENGIE ANZ portfolio.

Our Business Units

Flexible Generation & Retail

• ENGIE is one of Australia’s fastest growing energy retailers, with more than 700,000 electricity and gas customer accounts in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia, The Australian Capital Territory and Queensland.
• Our retail business offers simple and affordable energy plans for Australian households and businesses.
  They offer 100% carbon neutral plans certified by Climate Active where carbon emissions are offset from energy usage.
• Our gas power plants in South Australia are an essential component of our strategy to achieve a sustainable energy future, and we remain committed to optimizing their performance and reducing emissions while we invest in the energy systems of tomorrow.
• The Hazelwood Rehabilitation Project is a dedicated business stream leading the safe, stable and sustainable rehabilitation of the former Hazelwood Power Station and Mine, which ceased operation in 2017.

Renewables

• With 165MW of operating wind farms in South Australia and 3000MW of identified pipeline of solar, wind and large-scale batteries under development, ENGIE is making a sizeable contribution to the progress of renewable energy production in Australia.
• We strive for operational excellence in all aspects of green hydrogen production, including process design, equipment selection, and when up and operational in the optimization of our asset infrastructure. ENGIE and Mitsui are developing one of the world’s first industrial-scale renewable hydrogen projects to provide feedstock into Yara Pilbara Fertilisers' (Yara) existing ammonia operations near Karratha in Western Australia.

Global Energy Management & Sales (GEMS)

• GEMS provides energy supply solutions and risk management services to support its clients through their decarbonization journey, while optimizing ENGIE’s assets and contributing to value creation.
• ENGIE is leading the Australian green corporate Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) market, with several high-profile partnerships including Coles, Pepsi, L’Oréal Australia, Sanitarium, Veolia and NAB.
• Ensures a secure and sustainable energy future for B2B clients in line with a low carbon strategy by supporting customers in the transition towards a carbon neutral economy by offering them innovative, competitive and green solutions.  As well as through providing best in class risk management services tailored to our customers’ individual needs.
• GEMS has expertise in energy supply and global commodities; risk management and market access; green & low carbon solutions; and asset management and flexibility services.