Location: Cape Town
Why join Soly
Soly was founded in 2013 with the mission to make solar energy accessible for everyone. Since then we have grown rapidly and have installed solar systems at 30, 000 rooftops. We are active in The Netherlands, South Africa, Belgium and Germany and focus on the turn-key supply of solar systems to both residential and commercial clients. The company is one of the leading solar companies in Europe and venture capital backed by Shell Ventures and pension fund ABP.
Will you help us with our mission? Solar energy accessible to all. It's possible.
As our Sales Consultant Residential youll be supporting the development of residential solar energy projects together with our dedicated solar team in Cape Town. The ideal candidate will have a commercial background, an understanding of the solar energy sector and has a proven track record in sales.
Your Tasks Will Include
- Provide solar advise to residential clients
- Planning and executing residential solar energy projects
- Ensure administering all project data in CRM
- Managing multiple projects at the same time
- Generating leads for new solar projects
- Day-to-day technical project management
- Design residential solar systems in Aurora
- Coordinate and manage the procurement process of contractors to perform services under relevant EPC and O&M agreements
- Coordinate the process and execution of project agreements
- The interface between the clients and Soly South Africa team
- Meeting tight deadlines
- Liaising with clients
- Assist with overall project execution of the team
- Additional duties like pr and marketing content of solar projects you have build
- 1-2 years of previous sales experience (not necessarily in the renewable energy industry)
- Driven/Hunger for success/closing deals
- Positive, enthusiastic mindset & outlook
- Networking mindset / can run with deals / dont need to be micromanaged
- Comfortable with using tech tools: our in house digital platform built by Soly Netherlands (where we keep track of all leads/meetings with clients/sales)
- Comfortable learning new Solar PV design tools (Aurora/Helioscope) for Solar PV system designs (sales team members will be doing technical designs too)
- Comfortable with reporting weekly on number of deals working on, number of client meetings, number of proposals sent etc
- Great communication skills
- Team player
- Own vehicle for client site visits etc
Good To Know
During our selection process, we only look at the qualities of the candidates. You therefore do not have to add your age, gender, origin or a photo of yourself to your CV. In doing so, we follow our Hiring Code of Conduct.
We are a B Corp: Business as a force for good
Thousands of households and companies switch to solar energy with us every year. This not only means our sustainable impact is large, but we also have a chain that has a major impact on the earth and countless (direct or indirect) stakeholders. As B Corp, we do everything we can to ensure that this impact is positive for our customers, employees, factory workers, the environment and everything else we have an impact on.
Being a B Corp is hard work, but it ensures that we are always critical of ourselves and bring out the best in Soly. We set high standards for ourselves, as you can read in our Climate Action Report. But it is precisely those challenges that give us energy.
