About Apollo AgricultureApollo Agriculture is a tech-enabled commercial farming platform that helps small-scale farmers maximize their profits. We provide optimized financing, high-quality farm products, and digital advice. Our mission is to ensure that small-scale farmers are able to unlock the economic value of their land, and in turn, boost their incomes while feeding a growing continent.Apollo Agriculture has emerged as Africa’s leading agricultural fintech, growing our revenue 10x since our Series A. We now have our capable teams spread across our offices in Nairobi, Amsterdam and Bangalore, and are helping our farmers increase their profitability 2-3x. Having recently closed our $40M Series B financing, we are focused on expanding geographically, enhancing our products and technology, and continuing to build our world-class team.
About the RoleApollo is seeking a commercially minded strategic thinker to join the sales team as Regional Sales Manager. As a Regional Sales Manager, you will oversee the execution of Apollo’s sales strategy at the regional level, while managing a number of Field Sales Managers who work directly with field sales agents to ensure Apollo’s product reaches its target customers. A core focus of this role is to ensure the recruitment of high-performing field agents, provide high quality training, drive agent productivity, maintain data integrity, meet sales performance targets, leverage data insights for strategic decision-making, manage government relations, and foster partner relationships within the assigned region The successful candidate will be comfortable leveraging analytics and both qualitative and quantitative insights to inform strategy, manage team performance and build strong processes and systems to support scale. The Regional Sales Manager will be Apollo’s expert on farmers and agents in their region with occasional travel to the field.
We:
- Are a collaborative team of smart and ambitious people who are dedicated to serving our customers
- Make magic happen to solve hard problems and always come with solutions when challenges arise
- Are comfortable taking risks that can result in radical scale, and understand that failures are opportunities to learn and improve
- Are considerate listeners and take the time to deeply understand and seek out ideas from the people around us, even when we disagree
- Offer a dynamic environment that fosters talent, collaboration and growth
- Take pride in our work and share the responsibility to see it through from conception to deployment
- Back up our talk with a competitive compensation and benefits package and challenging projects
- Value autonomy, honesty, transparency, and respect
- Are excited to hear from you!
Apollo Agriculture does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. Apollo Agriculture is an equal opportunity/equal access employer fully committed to achieving a diverse workforce.Apollo Agriculture is committed to providing a safe and productive learning and living community. To achieve that goal, we may conduct background investigations for all final candidates being considered for employment. Background checks may include, but are not limited to, criminal history, national sex offender search and motor vehicle history.Apollo Agriculture does not charge money or any kind of fee at any stage of the recruitment process