Business Developer at PalmPay

We are looking for experienced contracted Business Developers –  who are passionate about our mission to drive financial inclusion in Africa.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Acquiring strategic, high-profile merchants, agents, and users.
• Focus on building and maintaining successful long-term relationships with these strategic merchants, agents, and users.
• Planning and overseeing new initiatives on Winning and Managing merchants, agents, and users.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge and help build PalmPay's presence by establishing personal networks and utilizing existing networks and relationships to build a new merchant base
• Conduct research to identify new markets and customer needs
• Gather useful information from customer and competitor data
• Research potential leads in our target vertical and follow up with those leads via phone, and in-person meetings to bring them into our merchant list.
• Communicating with and informing existing clients in a way that supports an ongoing relationship.
• Achieving targets (KPI) set by the Company
• Every other detail will be assigned by the Line Manager.

Person Specification:

• Minimum of SSCE.
• 0 - 1 year experience as a Marketer or Sales agent in any financial institution.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent analytical and negotiation skills.
• Sound knowledge of financial processes and services.