Paga is a licensed financial services company and a leading payments company in Nigeria with a massive transformative purpose – to make it simple for one billion people to access and use money. It was founded on the simple belief that the ubiquity of mobile phones can be leveraged in building an ecosystem that enables people to digitally send and receive money and creating simple financial access for everyone.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Business Development Analyst
Location: Yaba, Lagos (Role may require some domestic travel)
Department: People Operations
Reporting Line: Senior Key Account Manager
Responsibilities and Tasks
Technical, Logistical and Administrative Support for Business Development Team:
- Providing support to the Business Development Manager and Account Managers, and representing the department as needed in-line with Company policies.
- Performing research, developing ideas and working with team members to pursue new business opportunities for the Company in Africa and beyond.
- Connect with diverse business units within the Company to outline solutions to business needs and document business details.
- Designing and building reports (in Word and Excel) to communicate business development status updates to upper management on a regular basis.
Business Development Process/Pipeline:
- Developing and maintaining client lists and project target lists for the department.
- Tracking progress to ensure that the department adheres to schedules for achieving targets.
- Organizing materials and information for tender submissions, including liaison with other units within the Company on submission of bid documents.
- Providing inputs to management based on market information to enable the Company to develop capabilities in areas that will give it strategic leverage for future projects.
- Gather and analyze market intelligence for new projects and opportunities.
Client Management:
- Ensuring that clients and partners have 24/7 access to a Company Account Manager.
- Ensuring that client and potential client enquiries are screened and channeled to the correct unit and responded to.
- Ensuring communication of customer needs and expectations between the Company and the client and between units in the Company.
- Ensuring liaison with other departments as appropriate in relation to proposals, projects, legal, customer support, finance, marketing, or other issues.
- Fostering and developing positive customer relationships which result in increased and repeat business.
- Understanding customer needs and assisting in the development of project solutions that satisfy those requirements and provide new opportunities for the Company.
- Communicating with cohorts in Client and potential client organizations, professionally and socially (where appropriate), to maintain relationships with Clients and potential clients.
Skills & Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field; Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Management Information Systems or similar fields.
- Minimum of 2 years work experience.
Job-specific Skills and Requirements:
- Resourcefulness and self-motivation, with the ability to perform with minimal supervision.
- Exceptional attention to detail.
- Well-organized, with ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong proficiency in use of business email and Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Adaptability, ability to work in a team environment.
- Confidentiality and the highest ethical standards must be maintained in all activities
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online
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