Summary

Living Goods (LG) is initiating a phase of dramatic scale up and replication. LG’s innovative model is attracting significant interest among potential replicators in the private, public, and social sectors. To support its vision for scaling its model in service of the poor, LG seeks an energetic, resourceful, and driven Partner Development Manager to help launch a new business unit that will help companies, NGOs and social enterprises replicate LG’s success. The Partner Development Manager will master LG’s business model including sales and marketing strategies, supply chain management, health impact approach, and mobile marketing tools. With this knowhow, s/he will help visionary organizations adapt and scale LG’s ground breaking model. LG is a fast-paced, mission-driven organization, committed to building a sustainable distribution platform for products that save and change lives in the developing world. The ideal candidate will have a strong blend of private and social sector experience and must be comfortable in a dynamic, start-up environment.

About Living Goods

Thanks to significant public health and technological breakthroughs we now have the solutions to save and change the lives of millions of people living in poverty. Products like anti-malarial treatments, clean-burning cook stoves, fortified foods, bed nets, and solar lamps can dramatically improve the health and wealth of people who survive on just a few dollars a day. But these products do little good if they don’t reach the people who need them most. And as it stands today, hundreds of millions of people in Africa still lack access to life’s most essential products and thousands of children die every day from preventable diseases. Now more than ever, we need an efficient, scalable, and sustainable system to deliver these life-saving and life-changing products to the world’s poor. This is the gap Living Goods aims to fill.  Living Goods operates networks of independent women entrepreneurs in sub Saharan Africa who make a modest income going door-to-door selling these affordable and effective solutions. By combining the best practices from the worlds of micro-enterprise, franchising and public health, Living Goods is creating a fully sustainable system to improve the health, wealth, and productivity of the world’s poor.

Responsibilities

The Partner Development Manager will help build Living Goods’ replication and technical assistance division, becoming a point person on partner engagements, guiding the implementation of LG tools and strategies among partner organizations and working closely with partner leads to drive results. Following 4-6 months spent mastering LG operations s/he will develop and lead partner engagements.

The Partner Development Manager will spend their first 6 months in Kampala, Uganda and then will travel extensively to client sites world wide.  Depending on how the new division grows, LG is open to where ‘home base’ will eventually be for this position. The Partner Development Manager will be a key member of the Living Goods global team with headquarters in San Francisco, CA.  The position will report to the Director of Research and Development.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5-7 years of private sector experience, preferably in management consulting, marketing, or direct sales with proven track record of exceeding expectations. Candidates with strong mobile marketing experience preferred;

• Demonstrated success managing client-facing relationships and communicating with and inspiring confidence in senior executives of global businesses, NGOs and governments;
• Excellent quantitative, analytical and project management skills;
• Entrepreneurial spirit and professional maturity; ability to work independently, think creatively, learn quickly and know when to seek support;
• Experience working with culturally diverse teams in developing countries, and preferably in Sub Saharan Africa;
• Willingness to be based in Kampala, Uganda and to travel regionally and internationally 40-60% of time;
• BA required; Masters degree in a relevant field preferred.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of audiences including senior executives, middle managers, and field staff.

Compensation

A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health, vacation, 401k, and bonus opportunity.

Contact:

Please submit a single file with resume/CV and cover letter describing your interest, qualifications, and how you learned of the position to Molly Christiansen, Director of Research and Development (partnerdevelopmentmanager@livinggoods.org).  Please type “Partner Development Manager” followed by your name (Last, First) as the subject line of your email (eg. “Partner Development Manager– Doe, John”).

Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis. We will begin contacting qualified candidates in mid February 2012.