Commercial Director - Ciudad de México - Pula

Pula
Pula
Empresa verificada
Ciudad de México

hace 4 días

Rodrigo Fernández

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Rodrigo Fernández

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Descripción

About Pula:


At Pula, we are radically restructuring agricultural insurance, using technology to insure the previously unbanked, uninsured, untapped market of 1.5 billion smallholders worldwide.


We work in over 17 countries across Africa and Asia, and by 2021, we have facilitated crop insurance cover to over 5.3 million farmers across Kenya, India, Rwanda, Uganda, Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, Zambia, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Tanzania, and Malawi.

Since raising our Series A our operations have expanded globally including now Asia and Latin America.


Pula is a fast-paced space, constantly adapting to new opportunities and challenges and we are made up of a high-performance, multi-cultural team.

We expect our team to value performance, results and professionalism.


At Pula,
our values are:


  • Obsessed with results: We are responsible for our future and therefore we get things done
  • Connect the Dots: We continuously identify different customer needs & business problems and build solutions that deliver value.
  • Have a Can do Attitude We dare to do things differently to make things work.
  • We have each others' back: We look out for each other & we share high quality, timely feedback that makes us better.

What you will be doing:

The Commercial Director at Pula is far from the typical sales leader. You must be passionate about having meaning in your work.

Willing to go the extra mile to evangelize the importance of agriculture insurance in transforming the lives of millions of smallholder farmers across multiple stakeholders from the political elites to the Government systems, and development agencies all the way down to the farmer.

For you to be successful at the role, one must consider it their mission - "how you will be remembered".

You will be rewarded very well at it as we believe in "doing good and doing well".

Whilst impacting hundreds of millions of farmers, our mantra is that those who are successful in the mission must be dollar millionaires in the end.

At Pula, good deeds are rewarded.

In this role, you'll;

Expanding your networks, influence and Pula's positioning in the region

  • Constantly building deeply entrenched relationships that will enable one to understand client needs, gather market intelligence and build a credible pipeline of opportunities. To succeed in the role, one must incredible enjoy building new relationships and leveraging on relationships to achieve your goals.
  • Effectively communicate value propositions through presentations and proposals
  • Act as the Pula spokesperson in the region.
  • Using knowledge of the market and competitors in the regions, identify and develop the company's unique selling propositions and differentiators.

Business Development

  • Defining Commercial OKRs in your region and ownership of the results.
  • Research, prepare and execute a sales plan focused on delivering new and recurring revenues through partnerships with agroinput companies and the public sector.
  • Develop pipeline and continuously mature & qualify opportunities in order to increase Pula''s market share and to enable achievement of sales target.
  • Generating and qualifying new leads and using different approaches to penetrate prospective clients in your region. You are expected to qualify opportunities, know which deals to work on, and which ones to pass on.
  • Progress prospects through a defined sales process to eventual contracting and implementation.

Customer Relationship Management

  • Manage and nurture existing client relationships across a wide range of stakeholders including commodity associations, farmers' aggregators, insurers, government and private companies.
  • Manage the handover of new customers to the operations team for the implementation of the solution.

Team Leadership:


  • Build and / or manage a high performing sales team to execute end to end sales including outreach, pitching, getting alignment, negotiation, closing deals and implementation.
  • Analyze data and use it to make key strategic decisions for the business.

What you need to be successful:

  • You have experience in strong demonstrable sales to development agencies, governments and / or financial institutions.
  • You have demonstrable success working against a sales quota target.
  • You have experience working with Development Agencies and / or Government officials at all levels and navigating government structures.
  • Critical Thinking Skills. You must have the ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
  • Behavioural Skills. You must be selfdirected, work well alone or in a team structure, highly results oriented, and willing to learn and expand his/her technical and product knowledge base through formal education, professional training, and selfstudy.
  • You have knowledge and understanding of dealing with Csuite executives with excellent communication and presentation skills, integrity and impeccable professionalism.
  • Sales and or consulting ex

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