The Regional Sales Manager – Africa is responsible for leading commercial performance, strengthening route-to-market models, and driving execution excellence across MSI’s Africa region.
The role owns regional sales performance oversight, ensuring that country programmes (CPs) translate commercial strategy into measurable results through disciplined execution, robust planning, and continuous performance improvement.
Acting as a strategic commercial partner to CPs and distributors, the postholder analyses existing sales models, identifies structural gaps, and drives optimisation of distribution, incentives, and sales approaches to unlock growth.
The role operates with a high degree of autonomy, challenging performance, influencing decision-making, and holding both internal and external stakeholders accountable for results.
This role requires strong contextual understanding of Africa markets, including hands-on experience working with distributors and field sales teams. The role is expected to be based within the Africa region to ensure close proximity to market dynamics and enable effective commercial partnering.
For us, it’s vital that every MSI team member believes in and is committed to our organisational mission, vision and values.
This means that we will only accept applications from candidates who are unequivocally pro-choice.
Our values act as guiding principles, providing us with a clear direction. They set the tone for how we approach our work, interact with others and align ourselves as ‘One MSI’. It’s important that our team members truly resonate with our values and demonstrate them consistently, in all that they do.
We recruit talented, dynamic individuals with diverse backgrounds who share our mission and are focused on delivering measurable results. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone can participate and contribute meaningfully. We value open-mindedness, curiosity, resilience, and a solutions-oriented mindset, alongside a commitment to promoting equality and safeguarding the welfare of both team members and clients.
We seek exceptional communicators who are self-motivated, solutions-driven, and aligned with MSI’s mission and entrepreneurial mindset. You should be dedicated to driving social change in an environment focused on sustainable impact, both locally and globally, and comfortable working with diverse teams in an ambiguous setting.
Please see the job description here.
To perform this role, you’ll need the following skills:
To perform this role, you’ll need the following experience:
Formal education/qualification
A degree in business, marketing, economics, supply chain, or a related field is desirable, or equivalent professional experience.
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