Country Training Manager

Location: Lusaka, Zambia; onsite with 60–70%+ travel across Zambia

Company

hirify.global is an off-grid solar energy company combining solar products, energy-efficient appliances, PAYG financing, and field operations to expand access to reliable electricity.

What you will do

• Own Zambia’s annual training strategy and plan, aligned with sales targets, product launches, seasonality, and regional priorities.
• Lead, coach, and performance-manage Zonal Training Managers and Regional Mentors across the country.
• Set standards for onboarding, certification, refresher training, product demonstrations, pitching, load calculation, and objection handling.
• Manage blended learning across classroom training, field coaching, microlearning, and LMS content.
• Own training dashboards in Looker, Kazi Plan, and Litmos; use sales, repayment, and customer-complaint data to identify gaps.
• Partner with commercial, sales, risk, operations, programs, and marketing teams to connect training interventions with sales, collections, retention, and customer-experience outcomes.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in sales training, L&D, or sales management, including at least 3 years managing teams.
• Experience building training programs that improved country or regional sales metrics and managing multi-layered field teams.
• Strong technical knowledge of Solar Home Systems and the ability to demonstrate and troubleshoot basic functionality.
• Strong data skills and fluency with LMS platforms, Looker, and field or CRM applications.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Fluent English required; Bemba, Nyanja, Tonga, or Lozi is an advantage.

Nice to have

• Experience in solar, electronics, telecoms, FMCG, or agent distribution.
• Training, facilitation, or instructional-design certifications.
• Experience managing other managers or trainers.

Culture & Benefits

• Professional growth in a rapidly expanding, high-impact clean-energy sector.
• Collaborative and globally diverse working environment.
• Tailored leadership and management learning pathways through the hirify.global Center for Leadership.
• Permanent full-time employment with statutory benefits.