Business Development Associate Job Vacancy at BitPesa

BitPesa (www.bitpesa.co) is a cutting-edge online payment platform that leverages blockchain settlement to significantly lower the cost and increase the speed of business payments to, from and within sub-Saharan Africa. BitPesa's clients range from African businesses and multinational companies paying suppliers as far as China and Dubai to international remittance companies using our API services for white-label payments to dozens of bank networks and mobile money operators across Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal, and the DRC. We are recruiting to fill the position below:     Job Title: Business Development Associate Location: Lagos Job Type: Full-Time Job Summary

• As the Business Development (BD) Associate, you will be responsible for generating, qualifying and helping close sales leads in Nigeria, and other West African markets, for BitPesa’s cross-border payments service.
• In this sales role, you will support the BD Team in customer acquisition within existing as well as new markets.
• We’re looking for an ambitious young professional, with the relevant experience and skills, to help BitPesa penetrate the West African markets by selling our cross-border payment products and services.
• This is an exciting opportunity to help take Africa’s leading digital F/X company to the next level.

• Help ensure client portfolio grows while being diversified, stable and profitable.
• Regularly update the sales pipelines with client engagement status.
• Develop competitive analysis to identify market trends, customer needs and pricing/rate structure across the industry.
• Adhere to the sales process set out by the company to acquire clients.

• Develop a holistic Lead Generation and Qualification Plan across various target segments and industries.
• Regularly contact prospective clients (via introductory emails, phone calls) generated by the Business Development and Marketing Team to engage leads and procure discovery meetings.
• Assist Team Managers in conducting meetings, when necessary, with prospective and existing clients with the aim of growing our business.
• Liaise with Compliance to collect required documents from clients and ensure account approval is completed in a timely manner with all the necessary compliance checks.
• Flawlessly execute trade requests from new clients and ensure thorough hand-off is completed to the Account Management Team.
• Keep sales tools up to date with excellent lead and process management to clearly identify status and success during sales process.
• Assist with implementing sales strategies and plans including but not limited to specific marketing campaigns and marketing penetration strategies.
• Regularly mine various business-oriented online platforms (e.g Linkedin) to network and connect with potential leads.
• Attend events and conferences representing the company across the region.
• Develop quarterly, monthly, and weekly plans with specific, measurable goals.

• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to prioritize and multitask, when required.
• Advanced Microsoft Office and Google Suite Tools skills along with the willingness and ability to become familiar with Company-specific sales tools/software.
• Passionate about our mission to redefine how businesses make payments to, from and within Africa.
• Based in Lagos and willingness to travel within West Africa.
• Young professional who is ambitious and passionate.
• Ability to understand and help promote customer-centric vision at BitPesa.
• Quantitative individual with a love for numbers and data analysis.
• Excellent interpersonal, communications, public speaking, presentation, and listening skills.
• Creative problem solver with the ability to work independently with minimal guidance.