Acceptance and Acquirer Management - Nigeria 2, West & Central Africa at Interswitch

Job Purpose

• Support the acceptance of Verve in Nigeria, West and Central Africa.

Responsibilities
Relationship Management:

• Builds and maintains strong, mutually beneficial business relationships with Acquirers, Payment Service providers, regulators, Processors, Domestic switches and merchants in Nigeria, Africa and across the world.
• Initiate and follow up on projects, deployments at Interswitch and other stakeholders
• Builds solid relationships with our acquiring partners and their merchants to encourage merchants to maximise opportunities.
• Support the Team leader, Acceptance and Acquirer Management – Nigeria 2, West & Central Africa in carrying out his duties.

Market Development:

• Design, implement and drive Verve physical and virtual tokens acquiring and acceptance strategy for focus regions and markets.
• Identify, engage and work with acquiring partners to grow Verve acceptance across channels in focus regions and markets.
• Work with key pan African acquirers, regional banks and merchants to grow Verve pan-African acceptance on all channels

Knowledge:

• Prepare research on regulators, acquirers, industry players in preferred markets
• Research acceptance trends and work with product team to develop and deploy solutions in African markets
• Develop training and knowledge sharing sessions for acquirers, merchants, processors and other stakeholders.

Education and Experience

• Academic Qualification(s): Good First Degree in Business or Computer Science
• Experience (Number of relevant years): 3 - 5 years of experience in a Financial technology and payment Operations.