Latest Vacancies at Octamile

About Your Role:

• Write clean, functional code on the front and back-end
• Design robust API services to support Partners (both mobile and desktop partners)
• Provide back-end functionality that can run smoothly from any device or browser type
• Develop front end website architecture
• Collaborate with back-end developers to improve website usability and Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic, coding and troubleshooting.
• See through Customer projects/integrations from conception to finished products
• Test and fix bugs or other coding issues where required
• Support Partners during API integrations.

About You:

• Proven eperience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role
• Experience developing desktop and mobile applications
• Knowledge of backend languages e.g. PHP, GOLANG
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries e.g. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, jQuery, React, Bootstrap
• Familiarity with database management technologies e.g. MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Ability to work with APIs
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Strong organizational and project management skills

Benefits at Octamile for You:

• Opportunity to Simplify Access to Insurance across Africa
• Opportunity to become a business leader in Africa's insurTech sector
• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• Fully paid pension

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About Your Role:

• Design robust API services to support Partners (both mobile and desktop partners)
• Build reusable codes and libraries for future use
• Support Partners during API integrations
• Analyse Octamile’s Partners needs, bottlenecks to ensure a positive user experience
• Collaborate with Front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic
• Set up server for new products and integrations
• Provide back-end functionality that can run smoothly from any device or browser type
• Test and fix bugs or other coding issues where required
• Maintain a stable server and ensure minimisation of system downtime and risks that may impact business and Partners activities

About You:

• Proven experience as a Backend Developer or similar role
• Knowledge of backend languages e.g. PHP, GOLANG
• Familiarity with database management technologies e.g. MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Ability to work with APIs
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Critical thinker and problem solving skills
• Ability to meet tight deadlines

Benefits at Octamile for You:

• Opportunity to Simplify Access to Insurance across Africa
• Opportunity to become a business leader in Africa's insurTech sector
• Health insurance
• Fully paid pension
• Flexible work hours and hybrid work: 60% Office and 40% remote

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About Your Role:

• Launch, manage and grow strategic partners to align with and exceed Octamile's objectives and key metrics.
• Model, track and analyse partnerships' key performance indicators to report the metrics ROI.
• Support other sales agents for business development and partnership relationships.
• Monitor business relationships using set performance evaluation metrics and reports for performance of the partnership.
• Participate in regular business reviews with leadership and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with the Engineering and Marketing teams to provide customer feedback of the product and brainstorm product solutions.
• Leverage your people skills to represent Octamile as a thought-leader at events and conferences, and build relationships with prospects, partners and industry stakeholders.

About You:

• 4+ years of work experience in sales /business development
• Knowledge of the Automotive industry
• Experience in driving insurance sales & partnerships with Auto industry service providers is a plus.
• Must be a great communicator, that inspires action and loyalty.
• A good understanding and interest in Insurance and sales.
• Must have demonstrated success in previous business development and partnerships initiatives focused on growing revenue.
• Must have strong communication skills, presentation skills, networking skills, and understands the language of incumbents.
• Track record of delivering mutually successful business outcomes
• Ability to own OKRs, and enjoy pioneering new approaches while also being result-driven.

Benefits at Octamile for You:

• Opportunity to Simplify Access to Insurance across Africa
• Opportunity to become a business leader in Africa's insurTech sector
• Competitive salary
• Health insurance
• Fully paid pension

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About Your Role:

• Expand our current product partnerships with top 10 enterprise clients
• Establish new insurance product partnerships which fit into our tech stack and current products.
• Develop and lead our partnership strategy to identify, originate and execute business development opportunities that leverage insurtech, data, technology partnerships
• Establish and maintain new connections to non-insurance partners and set up new partnerships with insurtechs, Fintechs, SMEs etc
• Build and scale our sales team, recruiting, onboarding, and developing high-performing and dedicated sales professionals
• Play a key role in developing and implementing our go-to-market strategy, including strategic sales planning and developing sales campaigns from idea to execution
• Forecast, track and report sales metrics to measure effectiveness and enable accurate forecasting on a monthly and quarterly basis, adjusting as needed.
• Leverage your people skills to represent Octamile as a thought leader at events and conferences, and build relationships with prospects, partners and industry stakeholders.

About You:

• 10+ years of prior managerial level work experience in strategy/sales /business development/partnerships.
• Experience in driving strategy/sales /business development/partnerships for financial services, telecommunications, and startups is a big plus.
• Must be a great leader, that inspires teams ownership without micromanagement.
• Understanding and interest in insurance
• Must have demonstrated success in business development and partnerships initiatives focused on growing revenue.
• Must have strong communication skills, presentation skills, networking skills, and understands the language of incumbents.
• Track record of delivering mutually successful business outcomes
• Ability to own OKRs, and enjoy pioneering new approaches while also being result-driven
• Analytical skill set, with meaningful experience defining, tracking and quantifying ROI of partnerships

Benefits at Octamile for You:

• Opportunity to Simplify Access to Insurance across Africa
• Opportunity to become a business leader in Africa's insurTech sector
• Competitive salary and equity
• Group life insurance and health insurance
• Paid annual holidays and paid parental leave
• Flexible work hours and hybrid work: 60% Office and 40% remote
• Fully paid pension

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About Your Role:

• Responsibility includes managing the strategic directions of retail delivery (agents and partnerships), marketing and business development for the organization.
• Responsible for service and sales performance of the organization’s retail sales division which offer consumer, business, and insurance products and services.
• Develop and implement Octamile's product Distribution strategy to achieve the desired growth
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure alignment in proposition and driving distribution strategy goals
• Define distribution models, strategic agreements and manage stakeholder relationships to achieve high growth and business profitability
• Build a scalable and efficient distribution model and ensure agents and recruited sales team are professionally trained and supervised
• Provide excellent sales support and product expertise at all points during the sales process
• Actively manage the sales funnel through business-driven Management Information (MI) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Leverage your people skills to represent Octamile as a thought leader at events and conferences, and build relationships with prospects, partners and industry stakeholders.
• Responsible for coordinating the planning and budgeting processes for all reporting departments.

About You:

• 8+ years experience with solid experience in Financial services, FMCG or Consulting
• Must be able to drive business results using excellent commercial judgment and entrepreneurial thinking
• Demonstrated experience in marketing and business development initiatives
• Significant knowledge of Insurance products and the ecosystem
• Customer-centric with a commitment to improving customer experience
• Able to create a positive working relationship with senior executives internally and externally
• Insurance experience is a plus

Benefits at Octamile for You:

• Opportunity to Simplify Access to Insurance across Africa
• Opportunity to become a business leader in Africa's insurTech sector
• Competitive salary and equity
• Group life insurance and health insurance
• Paid annual holidays and paid parental leave
• Flexible work hours and hybrid work: 60% Office and 40% remote
• Fully paid pension

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About Your Role:

• Develop and champion our business development efforts to position Octamile as Africa's leading digital insurance solutions and product company for insurers and non-insurance businesses.
• Launch, manage and grow strategic partners to align with and exceed Octamile's objectives and key metrics
• Model, track and analyse partnerships' key performance indicators to report the metrics ROI.
• Hire, develop, and manage a team of business and partnership executives
• Own reporting of the performance of the partnership, participating in regular business reviews with leadership and stakeholders
• Partner with the Engineering and Marketing teams to define product roadmaps from definition to launch and brainstorm product solutions with external and internal stakeholders.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, PR, Legal and company leadership in driving growth
• Leverage your people skills to represent Octamile as a thought leader at events and conferences, and build relationships with prospects, partners and industry stakeholders.

About You:

• 7+ years of work experience in strategy/sales /business development/partnerships.
• Experience in driving strategy/sales/business development/partnerships for financial services, telecommunications, and startups is a big plus.
• Must be a great leader, that inspires teams ownership without micromanagement.
• Understanding and interest in Insurance
• Must have demonstrated success in business development and partnerships initiatives focused on growing revenue.
• Must have strong communication skills, presentation skills, networking skills, and understands the language of incumbents.
• Track record of delivering mutually successful business outcomes
• Ability to own OKRs, and enjoy pioneering new approaches while also being result-driven
• Analytical skill set, with meaningful experience defining, tracking and quantifying ROI of partnerships

Benefits at Octamile for You:

• Opportunity to Simplify Access to Insurance across Africa
• Opportunity to become a business leader in Africa's insurTech sector
• Competitive salary and equity
• Group life insurance and health insurance
• Paid annual holidays and paid parental leave
• Flexible work hours and hybrid work: 60% Office and 40% remote
• Fully paid pension