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JOB PURPOSE 

• To aid and support to the Head of Business Development and the Managing Director of the Asset Management Unit in order to grow the Assets Under Management leading to the growth in business and revenue in a profitable and cost-effective manner. 
• To understand client investment needs and objectives and identify opportunities for EDC to provide investment solutions to address such investment needs.   
• To provide efficient supervision of EDC transactions on all distribution channels (e.g. EGH Branches) and ensure quick resolution of any client queries.
• To efficiently manage the product champion team to ensure AUM and Revenue growth.
• To aggressively pitch for new retail businesses.

JOB CONTEXT 

• The role requires candidate to be customer centric, and network minded with abilities to address/escalate issues to the Head of Business Development in order to ensure strong customer relationships and superior service quality. 
• The incumbent is requested to efficiently manage and provide information on the retail aspect of the business.  Candidate is required to have a strong supervision, team management and presentation skills.
• The incumbent is required to maintain excellent communication with Ecobank Branches to ensure AUM growth.
• The role also comes with the ability to efficiently sell investment solutions and come up with marketing initiatives to grow AUM in the retail space.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Attain targeted sales goals and performance targets through effective use of available resources.
• Develop marketing strategy for the retail business and detailed implementation plan for execution.
• Efficiently manage the product champions and branch retail business to ensure constant AUM and revenue growth.
• Ensure quick resolution of client issues from the branches and the retail space to delight clients.
• Identify and undertake specific initiatives to win new business at each prospect.
• Identify, contact and qualify new prospects within the identified market, cold calling and following up marketing leads.
• Develop and execute responses to queries from prospects and clients.
• Co-ordinate one-to-one meetings with prospects.
• Organize and perform demonstrations and/or presentations of the company key product offerings to prospective clients.
• Manage sales opportunities from first call through to closure
• Negotiate and close new business contracts
• Work closely with the various banking group within Ecobank to propose and execute marketing activities and communication
• Take ownership of market intelligence within the market (trends, competition and sale team update)

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Qualifications  

• Bachelor or Master’s degree (Minimum)
• SEC licensed

Experience

• At least 4-7 years sales/marketing experience with good sales track record, in selling investment products
• Ability to interact and negotiate with the client organization at take basic decisions.
• Sound Knowledge of Investment & Banking sector
•  Product knowledge, ideally across various asset classes.
• Customer focused & results oriented. 
• Ability to pull together various resources to sell and deliver customer solutions. 
• Good organizational and time management skills are highly desirable. 
• Result driven, 
• Inclusive, flexible, savvy and sensitive to client culture.

Skills & Capabilities & Personal Attributes

• Demonstrate excellent client acquisition skills 
• Demonstrate excellent leadership skills and team management skills
• Demonstrate a strong ability to ensure quick resolution of client queries and complaints
• Cooperative working style and strong communication skills are required, in order to develop and maintain effective working relationships both externally and internally.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment 
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely with clients/prospects and internal contacts 
• Strong interpersonal skills, team-oriented and self-motivated 
• Articulate and energetic self-starter with strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Highly self-motivated: ability to generate ideas and demonstrate initiative and perseverance.
• Team player with ability to work successfully under own initiative

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JOB CONTEXT

The role will work with key stakeholders i.e. developers, Business analyst, Project Managers in actualizing development of solution to meet customer needs.

The role will implement solution based on documented approach of Ecobank software development standard.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Get involved in the implementation of the 3-tier domain for Commercial, Corporate and Consumer Banking for the Group
• Participate at all stages of the software development lifecycle as part of a cross-functioning team.
• Be a part of a small, close knit and Agile team working on a wide range of activities to get a new business and products up and running.
• Develop, test, and implement new software programs.
• Independently install, customize, and integrate commercial software packages.
• Work with experienced team members to conduct root cause analysis of issues, review new and existing code and/or perform unit testing.
• Analyse user requirements and convert requirements to design documents.
• Provide comprehensive support to internal customers; achieve resolution to outstanding problems or issues

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Qualifications

• Education: – University degree preferably in Computer Science/Electrical Electronics/Mechanical Engineering or its equivalent
• Multi-lingual ability will be an advantage.

Skills & Experience: 

• Possess good problem-solving attribute and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to learn various programming language and standards which includes but not limited to JAVA, REST, XQuery, XPATH, XSLT, JMS, Memcached, Oracle Middleware component, Linux, MySQL, JSF and Spring MVC, web components, SQL, other database languages, NoSQL, structured and Unstructured database, PL/SQL
• Basic understanding of Systems Development Life Cycle.
• Communicate effectively and professionally in all forms of communication with internal customers.
• Basic knowledge of software methodologies and design patterns.
• Basic Understanding of Data structure and algorithm
• Experience working with multi-cultural & multi-national environment.
• Availability and willingness to travel to other locations as required