Experience

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  Ouka Investment ltd

  • Managing Partner

    • Apr 2018 - Present

    This is run as a private consultancy firm focused on MSME capacity development, skills development in sales and marketing, social entrepreneurship, project management, monitoring and evaluation of projects, personal finance training and development, Procurement, and logistics management, including procurement audits, warehouse setup and inventory management, Sales territory mapping, Trainers of trainers, and personal productivity at the workplace.Developing and facilitating training programs for Clients that span from both private and public sectors.

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  Living Goods

  • Regional Business Manager

    • Aug 2014 - Mar 2018

    A Non-government organization Social enterprise that aimed to scale the support of digitally empowered community women social entrepreneurs, in partnership with governments and other partners, to leverage smart mobile technology to strengthen performance, and innovate to cost-effectively deliver high-quality, and impactful sustainable health services. Achievements;• Successfully managed the LG-regional operations, working with a diverse team of +45 staff to scale up the LG community health program that focused on empowering over 4200 community women social entrepreneurs to network sale and adapt the use mobile technology (Medic Mobile) to treat childhood under 5-year illnesses at a subsidized cost.• Horizontally grew from 2 branches to 8 branches, spreading into western Kenya with a 26% contribution to the regional sales and impact targets between 2017 and 2018.• Supported branch teams to achieve set targets and plan monthly activities, monitored KPIs using dashboards and other tools, and as well tracked key areas of performance improvement. • Provided reasonable regional budget assumptions for sales and marketing, setting SMART Budgets.• Grew market share by building strong community health work network and customer-oriented retail store and impact health services.

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  Impact Carbon

  • Kampala, Uganda

  • Operations and Sales Manager

    • Oct 2012 - Jul 2014
    • Kampala, Uganda

    A San Francisco based social enterprise whose work was to reduce poverty and improve the local environment, while slowing climate change as well as building and supporting projects that helped people access energy efficient cook stoves. We leveraged carbon finance and social finance to bring these projects to scale. Hired to set up, expand and scale up operations in Uganda . Worked with the Country Director to implement physical infrastructure set up, win partnerships, recruit sales personnel, set up operational systems and standardize financial reporting.Achievements;• Led a team of 10 sales staff to execute surveys, data collection, and market analysis tasks to determine product preferences and proper geographical targeting for pilot sales programs across the country.• Supported implementation of a $500,000 UN Foundation project launching a breakthrough technology and sustainable energy product (Cook stove) to the Ugandan market selling over 11,250 BioLite cookstove Units.• Supported creation of a 72-partner sales network (community health workers, retail shops, Micro Financial Institutions and distribution partners) enabling low-income consumers to access the BioLite clean cook Stove.

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  Uganda Telecom Ltd

  • Western Uganda

  • Trade Development Manager

    • Apr 2010 - Sep 2012
    • Western Uganda

    Uganda Telecom Limited is a Public Information and Telecommunication technology network company owned by the government of Uganda. This was a business development role, driving the airtime and data retail strategy for UTL in western Uganda.Key Achievements:• Implemented a new sales and distribution structure, streamlined the distribution model, significantly reduced dumping, improved distributor territorial integrity, drove distribution efficiencies, and significantly improved the quality of new acquisitions/ gross additions as well as distributor profitability. These actions amongst others contributed to over 13% growth in the second quarter of 2012.• Enforced adherence to the sales process to achieve market share gains within key customers segments of the company, mainly government parastatals.• Pioneered and successfully rolled out the implementation of a centralized POS system at the 3 UTL service centers to support data-based decision-making for customer service, brand management, product listing, and collaboration for value engagements with suppliers.

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  Coca-Cola Beverages Africa

  • Central Uganda

  • Sales Representative

    • Feb 2004 - Mar 2010
    • Central Uganda

    Coca-Cola Products franchise bottler in Uganda Key Achievements:• Trained and mentored distributor salesmen to execute daily sales activities• Achieved month to month sales targets contributing 20% to the regional set target of 2006• Managed multiple business models in a widely divergent / complex beverage Fast moving consumer goods environment (like the Phone booth/Cooler placement model, maximizing case sales to 5 per cooler per day, hence growing volumes).• Coordinated and participated in the execution of consumer promotional activities.• Executed different product launches and related marketing initiatives in my territory, achieving set targets.