Job Opportunity // Country Director with Discovered

Job Opportunity // Country Director with Discovered

Do you have an open, engaged and strong personality with a drive for entrepreneurship and impact? Discovered, a venture founded by Enviu, could be looking for you, to apply for position of the Country Director.

As a Country Director you will be required to set up a pan-Kenya hub-and-spoke model in order to activate local artisans to list their products on Discovered. The company is also looking for a country director with a wide experience working with artisans and/ or organizations working with artisans in Kenya.

You will be responsible to set up a hub-and-spoke model enabling hundreds of artisans open their own shop and to sell their products through Discovered. The activities include meeting artisans all over Kenya and setting up their own local teams. You will be based in Nairobi Kenya, in the offices of our co-founder Enviu.

What it means to be a Country Manager for Discovered

• Setting up the local organization and processes
• Planning and budgeting your team(s). Analysis and control of revenues, costs and margins of each of the local offices and the project.
• Hiring, training and guiding local scouts who will be scouting for and training artisans.
• Building the Discovered culture in your team.
• Scouting artisans and organizations working with artisans’ pan-Kenya.
• Building key partnerships, with both large and small organizations, particularly those who work with artisans.
• Collaborating with partners, maintains the relationship and defines (commercial) actions when appropriate.
• Collaborating with the Netherlands office of Discovered.
• The job will include regular traveling within Kenya, to urban and rural areas.

Get more details on how to apply  for the job here!

About Discovered

Discovered is a venture founded by Enviu, which offers creative artisan entrepreneurs in emerging countries a platform to connect directly to global customers. By selling their handmade & unique products, they can grow their own businesses. We are a start-up based in The Hague, the Netherlands. We have a great team working from our office in The Hague.

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