BitPesa is a pan-African platform redefining how businesses make payments to and from sub-Saharan Africa. Focused on using cutting-edge blockchain technology to increase efficiency across markets, BitPesa opens corridors for business payments and trade between Africa and the rest of the world.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Sales Associate
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Summary
- As the Sales Associate, you will be responsible for lead generation and sales-related tasks in the West African region for BitPesa’s cross-border payments services/products.
- In this role, you will support the Sales Team in new customer acquisition within the West African region.
- We’re looking for an ambitious young professional, with the relevant experience and skills, to help BitPesa penetrate the West African region by selling our cross-border payment products and services. This is an exciting opportunity to help take Africa’s leading digital F/X company to the next level.
Key Responsibilities
- Actively generate viable leads that satisfy internal criteria and KPIs
- Implement creative and modern techniques to generate viable leads across the regions.
- When required, effectively support the Sales Team by collaborating with key external and internal stakeholders to move deals forward in the sales process (working with Compliance, Treasury, Product).
- Help ensure client portfolio grows while being diversified, stable and profitable.
- Regularly update the sales pipeline (CRM) with client engagement status.
- Develop competitive analysis to identify market trends, customer needs and pricing/rate structure across the industry.
- Adhere to the sales process set out by the company to acquire clients.
Activities:
- Develop and follow quarterly, monthly, and weekly plans with specific, measurable goals.
- Develop a holistic Lead Generation Plan across various target segments and industries identifying “quick wins” versus “longer sales cycles”
- Keep sales pipeline (CRM) up to date with excellent lead and process management to clearly identify status and success during the sales process.
- Create reports to present sales data/trends for the team and management.
- Assist with implementing sales strategies and plans including but not limited to specific marketing campaigns and marketing penetration strategies.
- Create/research thorough market analysis and customer segmentation for the region
Requirements
- 3 to 4 + years of related sales or business development experience
- Demonstrated record of leads qualifications, sales and marketing
- Ability to dive deep into data, find meaning and deliver outcomes
- MBA, BA/BS degree or relevant experience
- Proven track record of metrics and quota obtainment
- Strong leads generation skills with a focus on new client’s development
- Experience developing and executing multi-modal, targeted campaigns
- Experience working with a matrixed team of stakeholders to achieve common goal
- Experience with using data and trends to articulate business needs
- A financial background in money market, FOREX, Banking, technology, or MIS is a plus
- Experience with CRM
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Casual work environment
- Great work-life balance
- We value autonomy
- Environmental-friendly (we try to use as less paper as possible!)
- Opportunity for growth for all our employees…and more!
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
Job Title: Lead Generator/ Qualifier
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job Summary
- As the Lead Generator/ Qualifier, you will be responsible for lead generation and sales-related tasks in the West African region for BitPesa’s cross-border payments services/products.
- In this role, you will support the Sales Team in new customer acquisition within the West African region.
- We’re looking for an ambitious young professional, with the relevant experience and skills, to help BitPesa penetrate the West African region region by selling our cross-border payment products and services. This is an exciting opportunity to help take Africa’s leading digital F/X company to the next level.
Requirements
- Young professional who is ambitious and passionate with a minimum of 1-3 years’ experience in a relevant role
- Ability to understand and help promote the customer-centric vision at BitPesa.
- Quantitative individual with a love for numbers and data analysis.
- Excellent interpersonal, communications ( (written and oral), public speaking, presentation, and listening skills.
- Creative problem solver with the ability to work independently with minimal guidance.
- Excellent organizational skills with ensuring nothing falls through the cracks
- Advanced Microsoft Office and Google Suite Tools skills and experience in using CRM software is a plus
- Passionate about our mission to develop innovative digital payment and treasury management solutions to help businesses scale in frontier markets
- You’re persevering and willing to roll up your sleeves to do whatever needs to be done
- Willingness to be based in our Lagos office
Key Responsibilities
- Actively generate viable leads that satisfy internal criteria and KPIs
- Implement creative and modern techniques to generate viable leads across the regions.
- Outreach to the prospective new clients via Web Site, Social Media, Chat Platforms, Shows, Phone and Email
- Set appointments for demos and presentation of BitPesa products and services
- Build relationships with the prospective new client’s key decision makers and serve as the primary first point of contact throughout the acquisition/sales lead qualification cycle
- Develop and follow quarterly, monthly, and weekly plans with specific, measurable goals.
- Develop a holistic Lead Generation Plan across various target segments and industries identifying “quick wins” versus “longer sales cycles”
- Keep sales pipeline (CRM) up to date with excellent lead and process management to clearly identify status and success during the sales process
- Create reports to present sales data/trends for the team and management
- Assist with implementing sales strategies and plans including but not limited to specific marketing campaigns and marketing penetration strategies
- When required, effectively support the Sales Team by collaborating with key external and internal stakeholders to move deals forward in the sales process (working with Compliance, Treasury, Product).
- Help ensure client portfolio grows while being diversified, stable and profitable.
- Regularly update the sales pipeline (CRM) with client engagement status.
- Develop competitive analysis to identify market trends, customer needs and pricing/rate structure across the industry.
- Adhere to the sales process set out by the company to acquire clients
- Exceed qualified lead creation goals
- Attain daily activity metrics of calls, decision maker contacts, qualified leads
- Understand customer business issues and how these issues can be solved with BitPesa’s services
- Identify and prospect new client accounts and associations within a network of approved leads.
- Identify and prospect new clients accounts within approved vertical and regional markets
- Create/research thorough market analysis and customer segmentation for the region
- Responsible for and over new clients to the onboarding team onto the BitPesa platform
- Advise Account Management on pain points of new clients so as to build a strategy for growing sales
- Introduce the new clients to key internal stakeholders of Onboarding, Account Management, Compliance and Trading
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Casual work environment
- Great work-life balance
- We value autonomy
- Environmental-friendly (we try to use as less paper as possible!)
- Opportunity for growth for all our employees…and more!
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
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