Posted:Thu at 4:35 PM
By:Hiring Kenya
Company Details
Industry:
Civil Engineering
Description:
Solar Panda is a social enterprise providing smart, low-cost solar power to communities across Africa, enabling families and small businesses to flourish and grow. Our high-quality solutions provide customers living without electricity access to clean, safe and sustainable solarย energy through a unique rent-to-own business model. Customers make a small down payment followed by daily or weekly payments, equivalent to their existing fuel costs, using mobile technology to unlock energy and then they own the unit outright as quickly as 1 year.
Job Description
What You Will Do
- Field marketing & activations (core of the role)
- Learn from what Field Agents and shops have already tested (including vernacular radio and local promotions) and scale what works
- Treat radio and road shows as core growth channels, not secondary tactics
- Plan and deliver roadshows, market activations, pop ups, and community events across Kenya
- Decide what gets done nationally vs locally, and why
- Ensure shops, vehicles, and activation sites are properly branded and consistent
- Brief, manage, and hold third party suppliers accountable (roadshows, printing, photography) .
- Strategy, insight & campaigns - Map the Kenyan customer journey from awareness to purchase
- Identify key barriers to purchase across different regions and customer segments
- Propose practical ways to address and mitigate those barriers
- Be opinionated about the right mix of channels
- Shape campaign ideas, taglines, messaging, and timing
- Design campaigns that are practical, measurable, and sales focused
- Social media & content direction
- Set direction for Solar Panda social media presence in Kenya
- Advice on content themes, frequency, and tone
- Work with photographers or content creators when needed
- Maintain an up-to-date photo and content library
- Ensure customer consent is collected for any photos or testimonials used
- Budgeting, reporting & accountability
- Propose marketing budgets and campaign spend
- Track costs vs outcomes
- Report clearly on leads, conversions, and sales impact
- Be comfortable answering the question: What did we get for this spend?
- Internal communications
- Share wins internally, strong agents, great activations, customer stories
- Capture testimonials and success stories from the field
- Help the wider team see whats working, where, and why
- Support internal alignment between Sales, Operations, and HQ
Qualifications
- Comfortable being both strategic and scrappy
- Happy in the field, not just in slides
- Organized, decisive, and execution focused
- Confident managing suppliers and budgets
- Data aware: you care about results, not just activity
- Curious about customers and grounded in real market insight
- Comfortable working across multiple Kenyan languages and vernacular radio markets, even if content is executed via agents or partners
- Comfortable spending significant time in the field, including upcountry travel
Salary: Discuss During Interview
Education: Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time