Senior Sales Executive, Nigeria at Paystack

⏲ May 8, 2024, 7:32 AM
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Paystack is a technology company solving payments problems for ambitious businesses. Paystack's mission is to help merchants in Africa get paid by anyone, anywhere in the world. Over 9,000 of some of the best businesses in Nigeria use Paystack’s modern payments gateway, including MTN, Taxify, Domino’s Pizza, Smile Communications, Opera, God is Good Motors, Axa Mansard Insurance, and many others.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Sales Executive, Nigeria

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role

As a Senior Sales Executive, you are an individual contributor tasked with executing on our go-to-market strategy in a field sales capacity. You’ll execute outbound sales campaigns across target sectors in an assigned territory with the goal of delivering on an annual quota.
You’ll be accountable for building and managing a pipeline of business by running a full sales cycle across multinational enterprises, growth and early stage startups, local corporates and high growth SMEs.
You’ll be required to establish relationships with Champions of Paystack within each prospect account, and serve as the directly responsible individual for sales engagements with Paystack.
In summary, you will identify new business opportunities and work to close these to increase Paystack’s market share and adoption within your territory.
In terms of profile: You are an adept salesperson seeking to build a long-term career in sales. You are capable of engaging in business conversations with C-level executives, and also comfortable having high-level technical conversations with relevant stakeholders. You have an understanding of the buyer journey and can lead relatively long, multi stakeholder deals in a highly consultative manner.
You understand how to communicate value to differentiate competing product offerings and enjoy working on products that require deep product knowledge, combined with technical knowledge.
We’ve pioneered a new era of simple, powerful, financial technology tools for businesses in Africa. And as we prepare for a period of accelerated growth, we are looking to you to help generate and convert a healthy pipeline of some of the best businesses on the continent.
And you’ll do all this while working closely with a tight-knit team of creative problem solvers who’ll value you, give you the opportunity to meet high expectations, and who’ll actively create a supportive, nurturing space within which to accelerate your career.
This full-time role is based in Country and reporting directly to the Head of Sales.

What You'll Be Doing
As a Sales Executive, you'll:

Draft and execute a Territory and Pipeline reconciliation plan, which captures your strategy for executing a demand-generation campaign to identify, engage and close new business for Paystack within target sectors
Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders and operational teams both within and outside Paystack
Report pipeline and sales activity data in a CRM to provide visibility into your book of business and guidance on your forecast
Support product development and cross functional initiatives as needed to enhance Paystack’s offering and value proposition.
Manage the sales cycle from pipeline generation to close, for multinational enterprises, growth and early-stage startups, local corporates and SMEs, to deliver on an annual revenue quota (target)
Receive qualified inbound opportunities and take ownership of these, qualifying and closing them

What it takes to succeed at this role

7 - 10 years experience in Sales or Business Development in Payments or technology, with Quota responsibility, and a track record of top performance in meeting set objectives
Able to understand complex technical requirements and craft solutions across multiple products
Strong presentation skills, particularly for in-person meetings with multiple stakeholders
Excellent communication skills encompassing verbal, written and presentation skills
Ability to operate in a highly ambiguous and fast-paced environment
Strong interest in technology
While this is NOT strictly required, it would be a plus if you:
have previous experience in the banking, payments, or the payment cards industry.
Ability to build a book of business within an assigned territory, and consistently deliver on quarterly and annual targets from outbound sales efforts
Strong ability to drive sales engagements in a fast-changing environment, sustaining focused conversations to achieve a clear objective.
Able to build trust and credibility by providing accurate information and guidance to prospects regarding Paystack’s products and solution capabilities