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Job Description

Successful Prospa People exhibit the following: 

• Mission driven
• Independent thinking
• Self motivated 
• Humble 
• Driven
• High performers 

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain key member accounts
• Build long-lasting relationships with external contacts and internal departments to create a better Member experience
• Provide support to key Members by learning about and satisfying their needs
• Research, analyze and interpret data from various sources
• Make cold calls or reach out to Members
• Stay current on company offerings and industry trends
• Present and demonstrate the value of products and services to prospective Members
• Compile and analyze data to find trends
• Convert analysis into business insights
• Support the development of sales strategies
• Handle Member complaints

Desired Skills & Experience

• Minimum degree acquired from a reputable university
• Minimum of 3-5 years hands on experience in Account Manager jobs in Service or FMCG/Telecom/Insurance/Renewable Energy Industry
• Comprehensive and current knowledge of industry trends
• The drive and energy to manage multiple accounts while looking for new opportunities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to understand member needs
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Attention to detail
• High self-initiative
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Key Requirements

• Must be available to start work no later than 14th April, 2023

Benefits
Here’s Just Some Of Our Prospa Perks:

• Competitive Salary
• Medical cover
• Paid time off (leave days)
• Work tools
• We invest in our employees through career development & opportunities

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About You

• As a Regional Business Manager you will be a business leader managing a designated area with the key responsibility of ensuring regional profitable growth, attainment of sales revenue through planning, execution and management of a team.
• This will entail consistently achieving set sales targets and growth plans for the region, building strategic relationships that will deliver a pipeline of sales growth, oversee regional opex costings and developing an effective team.
• The RBM will be completely responsible for driving new growth in the target region.

This role reports directly into the Head Of Sales and there is opportunity for significant growth into the various leadership roles.

Successful Prospa People exhibit the following: 

• Mission driven
• Independent thinking
• Self motivated 
• Humble 
• Driven
• High performers  

Key Responsibilities

• Lead in the formulation of the tactical sales strategy, business plans implementation programs & budgets within the designated region.
• Provide leadership and direction; and optimize Route To Market (RTM) & Distributor Development Design and development aimed to deliver numeric distribution growth and increase sales revenue.
• Oversee the Regional Opex Management focusing on optimizing key cost drivers and deliver profitability
• Champion the Customer Experience agenda within the region to deliver top of class experience on the after sales touch-points
• Champion brand and trade visibility within the region through excellent trade marketing execution & relationship management.
• Market intelligence - be the go to person on the region market insights and develop strategy to counter competition growth.
• Engage & manage staff performance, capability & capacity development through coaching & field accompaniments.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Minimum degree in a business field acquired from a reputable university
• Minimum of 5-8 years hands on experience in managerial jobs in Service or FMCG/Telecom/Insurance/renewable energy industry within the South West region (having worked there) will be an added advantage.
• Must be very fluent in Hausa and other relevant local languages.
• Must be resident within the northern states and have a deep knowledge of the region.
• Demonstrated ability of developing and leading a sales team that exceeds expectations
• Proven track record of hitting and exceeding targets and building partnerships
• Demonstrate problem solving capability - ability to create win-win situations while deriving desired numbers and outcomes
• Commercial acumen - demonstrate ability to build business concepts from ambiguity and deploy within short periods of time to achieve high level of success
• Willingness to spend an average of 4 days a week in the field
• Strong mindset for continuous improvement and meeting and exceeding expectations and able to demonstrate complete discretion and confidentiality
• Passion for social enterprise, development of people and environmental benefits

Key Requirements

• Must be based in Ibadan
• Must be available to start work no later than 14th April 2023

Benefits
Here’s Just Some Of Our Prospa Perks:

• Competitive Salary
• Medical cover
• Paid time off (leave days)
• Work tools
• We invest in our Employees through career development & opportunities

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What You’ll Do

• Manage loan product portfolio
• Manage all aspects of the loan product lifecycle from strategy and conceptualization to product rollout and further iterations.
• Measure impact of loan products delivered, using data to back up insights
• Regular reporting on performance of loan products 
• Define and monitor product roadmap, achieve quarterly OKRs and team KPIs, based on the company’s objectives
• Define product strategy, working closely with key stakeholders to design solutions to achieve this
• Regularly conduct product and market research to identify member needs, opportunities for product performance improvement and new product development
• Regularly review member feedback to discover opportunities for the business
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to deliver product development
• Monitor product performance to manage sustainable and profitable growth for the business, whilst ensuring member satisfaction
• Provide leadership for loan department personnel, working closely with the team to manage all aspects of loan operations
• Provide suggestions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of loan operations 

Minimum Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in any related field
• Professional qualifications will be an added advantage (e.g. Prince II, APM, Scrum)
• A minimum of 5 years in a product-facing role, with at least 3-4 of these in the financial services industry

What You’ll Need

• A strong understanding of the Banking industry (understanding of the Nigerian-specific context is a plus)
• A good understanding of risk, underwriting and credit policies
• Proven ability to create and execute strategic product strategies 
• Excellent project management skills (experience working with agile methodologies is a plus)
• Be very comfortable using data to influence decision making 
• Strong interpersonal skills to drive stakeholder engagement 
• Technical knowledge, with an understanding of software development 

Here’s just some of our perks:

• Competitive Salary
• Medical Cover
• Paid Time Off (Leave Days)
• Work Tools
• We invest in our employees through career development & opportunities

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What you’ll be doing 

• Work closely with other engineers, designers, and product managers to design and build a world-class product experience.
• Own the entirety of your features; including component design, implementation, automated testing, and rollout.
• Define and develop modern APIs that integrate web and mobile app clients with server backends.
• You will be part of the team responsible for the design, architect and build of aesthetically-pleasing modern interfaces for our Web & Mobile products.
• Bringing products and features to life, taking into careful consideration UX/UI design best practices.
• Collaborating, testing and iterating core product features. This role is full time.

Who we’re looking for

Like everyone else on the team, you are obsessed about impact and the difference we make as a business. You will get a kick out of seeing and feeling the impact of your work as more and more people gain financial freedom and entrepreneurs and business owners grow and expand their business. As our potential candidate you inhibit a few or all of the following:

• Experience with front-end technologies. We use React and TypeScript, but we’re happy if you’ve used different but similar technologies
• You care deeply about your craft. We build world class products. 
• Impact driven 
• you want to be involved in building a product that you (and the people you know) use every day.
• You care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisions
• Have a champion mentality; result and goal orientated
•  Great team player  
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely.
• Enjoys learning and diving into the deepest levels of how things work
• A keen and strategic problem solver 

What you’ll need 

• Must have a deep understanding of Javascript, HTML and React web framework.
• Familiarity with popular JS-app frameworks (React, redux).
• Interest in working full-stack, from developing frontend web applications to implementing business logic and optimizing database transactions.
• An understanding of how the web works with experience developing applications and can make pragmatic engineering decisions.
• Ability to develop, and deploy incremental improvements to our front-end platform.
• Write reusable components and libraries. 
• Write and review engineering design documents and guide product design.
• 3 years minimum experience in Frontend Development.
• 3 years minimum experience in building web applications
• Creative and innovative problem-solver.
• Agile in development.
• MERN/PERN stack engineer.
• Code junkie and hungry.
• Strong design and programming skills.
• Very good understanding of Styling and CSS
• Clean code advocate.
• Good communication skills.
• Fast and infinite learner.
• Excellent taste in Color Combinations.
• Ability to translate mockups to code
• Experience with modern browser technologies (Mobile Web).
• Experience with Minification and saving of web resources for faster rendering in browsers.
• Interactive Design knowledge. Knowledge about Progressive Web Apps.

Bonus points for

• Having built and shipped your own products
• Experience in development of web and server applications
• Previous experience owning and running a business or side hustle, no matter how big or small.

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Job Description

• As a functional manager, your role will also include optimising and reviewing the performance of teams, with an aim to increase the quality of engineering as a functional leader. To help us scale our engineering teams effectively, you will have close involvement with our hiring process.

What’s you'll do

• Inspire, lead, shape and grow a software engineering team.
• Manage and drive procurement for third party products that your team depends on.
• Drive continuous improvement focusing on quality in own and partner teams.
• Prioritise and optimise for highest speed in execution.
• Take calculated risks, collaborate with different stakeholders and clearly communicate short and long term consequences.
• Continuously develop relationships with product, engineering and key stakeholders across teams and domains.
• Influence and drive software design and architecture.

You have

• Bachelors Degree (or above) in Computer Science/Maths/Physics/similar
• Experience building and leading a significant software engineering team(s) within a scaling organisation
• Strong software architecture skills
• Strong coding ability with core skills in Python, Javascript or Java/Scala.
• Experience building and scaling high achieving engineering teams
• Big picture thinking - correctly diagnosing problems and building innovative solutions
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to partner closely with Product Owners and Business Heads