Husk Power Systems (“Husk”) is an award-winning clean energy company serving rural India and Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2023, it was named “World’s Best Challenger Brand” in the energy industry and is a 3-time Global Cleantech 100 company. The company’s AI-powered rural energy platform provides 24/7 renewable power to rural households, commercial customers, institutions, and small factories. It also delivers a range of other products and services, including e-commerce and credit financing of branded appliances for home and commercial use, as well as community-based solutions for e-mobility and the agricultural value chain. Husk’s mission is to supercharge economic growth and social well-being in rural communities that are unserved and underserved.

Husk Values

Honesty and Integrity; Act with discipline and integral to your job; Respect each other; Respect Human rights within our responsibility and contractual obligations. Frugal Innovation, Quality and Reliability; Respect for environment, health, and safety. Excellence as an attitude; We shall align perception to a common understanding of performance rating and measures., We > I, Fail Fast and Learn Faster Continuous Learning.

Husk is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, or religion. Husk is committed to improving gender balance within its teams in Nigeria and globally. Female candidates are therefore highly encouraged to apply even if not all requirements are met.

Benefits

Husk offers flexible working conditions with employee benefits that are in line with global best practices. These include clear career growth planning, transparent annual review processes that are gender inclusive, maternity, and paternity leave, gender-inclusive workplace conditions, family health insurance, and frequent training to assist the employees to grow in and to the next roles. Husk does not believe in micromanagement and encourages its employees to have a healthy work-life balance hence giving them the freedom to manage their workload to be compatible with their life.

Position Name: Technical Sales Expert, C & I

Division / Function:  C & I

Location of the Job: Abuja

Reports to: VP, C & I Business

Role Summary

Husk is seeking a Technical Sales Expert, C & I, to help expand its C & I business within Nigeria and across other parts of sub-Saharan Africa. We seek a business professional to take up the challenge of developing a wide range of functions and who will be committed to executing at a high level in a fast-paced environment.

The Technical Sales Expert – C & I is a mid-level position providing support for the VP, C & I Business in leading efforts to grow the business within Nigeria and other sub-Saharan African countries. This role is ultimately responsible for driving sales of solar and biomass installation projects for commercial and industrial clients. The candidate will have a track record of proven engineering design skills, sales generating and conversion abilities (communication, relationship building, negotiation.) as well as renewable sector energy knowledge.

The individual should also be passionate about solving one of Nigeria’s most critical challenges – the energy access deficit. This position provides the opportunity to join a growing team that is changing the face of rural electrification in many countries in Africa and Asia, including India, Nigeria, etc.

Key responsibilities:

General

• Implement the agreed growth strategies and plans as set out by the VP, C & I Business
• Support in driving the execution of monthly, quarterly, and annual sales strategies for the business.

Sales Management

• Provide regular reporting on sales management, sales pipeline development, forecasting, key account status, market condition updates, sales results, and budget performance.
• Actively provide requisite client support during the sales cycle including inquiry generation, load analysis/energy audits, offer submission, techno-commercial discussion, financial negotiation, and contract closure.
• Develop and maintain relationships with solar distribution channels and strategic accounts and the technical and commercial decision-makers in these companies.
• Identify client requirements and proffer product, project, C & I, or knowledge-based solutions.
• Provide key account management support for existing clients and target new potential accounts for direct selling to potential clients guided by a strategic roadmap.
• Conduct periodic technical reviews of competitors/market/industry offerings and ensure that Husk's offering is at par with such by presenting recommendations and reports.
• Performance will be assessed by pipeline generation, projects closed, project profitability, revenue, customer relationship enhancement, brand influence, and enhanced market competitiveness.

Business Support

• Co-ordinate with the Engineering and Projects Teams on inputs regarding client-specific solutions and efficient project deployment.
• Identify and select Products/Technologies/Vendors/Service Providers/Tools in alignment with the Procurement Team ensuring the best prices, and reliability.

Stakeholder Management

• Coordination with clients and prospective customers, business meetings, progress tracking, and site visits.
• Build and maintain relationships with clients by providing support, information, and guidance.

Required Skills & Attributes

• A degree in Electrical Engineering from a leading institution or a related field
• 2 – 4 years of proven experience
• Background in Electrical Engineering with proven experience in sales and business development in the energy sectors particularly solar, C & I project development, RE + BESS projects.
• Target Oriented Hard-Core Sales professionalism in the Solar segment with Commercial & Industrial segments.
• Capability of closing 200KW minimum Sales every month & generating 1MW Sales Funnel every month.
• Existing strong contacts in C&I Space in Nigeria. 
• Experience in proposal drafting.
• Highly numerate and analytical, comfortable with interpreting multiple data points to form hypotheses and make data-driven decisions.
• Experience in deal structuring and design tools.
• Experience working in diverse environments.
• Experience in conducting Site Surveys

Location and Travel

This role is based in Abuja, Nigeria. Constant traveling is required to speak/meet with potential clients and convert for business goals.                                                                      

Salary

NGN200,000 to NGN500,000, based on experience.

Women candidates are encouraged to apply.

DISCLAIMER:

This description indicates the general nature and level of the qualifications and duties required of employees in this job classification, as well as the essential functions a person must be able to perform to do this job. It is not designed to be a comprehensive inventory of all duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Husk Power Energy Systems and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers and make employment decisions on the basis of merit and business need. We hire without consideration of race, colour, religion, citizenship, political activity or affiliation, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, sex or gender, or any other basis protected by law.