Sales Development Coordinator

Sseko Designs uses fashion (and now coffee!) to create opportunity, sustainability, and community for women across the world and right here at home. From luxury leather travel bags to customizable footwear, Sseko creates stunning goods with an innovative business model that enables women in the countries where we make products to attend university and pursue their dreams. We are also committed to circularity, keeping all our products in circulation and out of landfills. We want the places where our community of women live and work to not just be more prosperous, but also more healthy and green. Our products are sold by Sseko Fellows, a bright and bold community of dreamers and doers, who are using their passion and smarts to support female scholars across the globe, save the planet, and earn an income to pursue their own dreams.

Sales Development Coordinator plays a critical role in serving Sseko’s mission to use business to create educational and economic opportunities for women across the globe. This role will support our sales and field development team across all sales and development functions and activities.

This role requires an action-oriented, detail focused, team player who can create clear and accurate reporting, manage details across departments and support the sales team in driving community engagement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage, own and distribute all reporting needed to support sales team
• Support Events, Team Calls and other recognition events with deck building, notes, scripts, facilitating, follow-ups and needed reporting.
• Manage and own production of Fellows virtual experiences. Run point on production for virtual events, monthly calls or virtual training experiences
• Support and participate in semi-annual field conferences and events.
• Manage inbound Fellow leads.
• Manage logistics and calendars for all trainings and events for internal team and the field.
• Create and manage Fellows feedback loops (ie Launches, Fresh Fellows, Retired Fellows etc)
• Check for details, accuracy and consistency across all sales field communication channels.
• Manage video content and needed edits for video training (working with freelance video editors or in-house resources)

• Direct sales experience preferred
• Ability to work in a fast paced, in-the-moment environment
• Excellent communication skills with obsessive attention to detail
• Highly organized with the skill to track projects from inception to final delivery
• Capacity to manage multiple priorities and deadlines and work quickly and efficiently in a fast-paced environment
• Proficient in Excel, Google Sheets and other reporting and analytics tools
• Proficient with Facebook groups, events, pages, and other FB tools
• Proficient writer: clear, concise, fun!
• Adaptable! It’s a fast moving, fluid environment, and you must be able to wear multiple hats when needed
• Comfortable in Canva with basic design tools
• Proficient with Google Suite, Asana and Slack
• Self-starter, fast learner with action and results-orientation
• Resourceful, ability to problem-solve and react quickly with a positive can-do attitude

We are looking for that someone special!

You will be a part of an innovative team that is pioneering the path that merges traditional for-profit business models with positive social change for women around the globe and right here at home. You will have the opportunity to grow a company and develop a new model for doing business. The ideal, and rare, candidate will be an incredibly dynamic communicator as well as a true corporate professional. The candidate will be an innovator – excited to communicate a powerfully modern approach to social selling. The candidate must have a passion for our mission, love of people and demonstrate extraordinary professional maturity and leadership skills. If you are an optimist by nature, driven and ready to take charge in building an impact driven brand, this could be the role for you.

Time / Opportunity

• Start Date: ASAP

• Location: Headquarters in Portland, OR - Open to Fully Remote

• Compensation: Depending on Experience, Health Insurance, 401k, PTO

Equal Employment Opportunity:

Sseko is on a mission to use business to create educational and economic opportunities for women across the globe. This is an ambitious goal that will only be accomplished with an inclusive culture that creates space for the most creative and courageous minds to have a seat at the table. We believe that in addition to being in alignment with our value for justice and equality, building a diverse and inclusive team is required in order for us to achieve our audacious dream of creating a brighter and more just future for women everywhere. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical​​​ condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or ​expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.