Company Info
Lemonade Finance “LemFi” (YC S21) is creating a neobank for people of African descent in North America and Europe. For their commercial and personal banking requirements, we provide our users a multi-currency account that enables them to hold, transfer, and receive money from Africa in any currency. We are a quick-growing firm with operations in the UK, the USA, Canada, and Nigeria. As such, you will need to get familiar with the local legal and regulatory frameworks in each of these countries.
Title: Sales and Merchant Acquisition Specialist
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Category: Sales
Responsibilities
- We are currently looking to hire a Sales and Merchant acquisition specialist for our B2B product (Zide). The ideal candidate will be responsible for Merchant Acquisition, developing sales strategies and identifying business growth opportunities for this product.
- Follow up with Marketing generated leads to qualify as sales opportunities. Move solid leads through the funnel, and arrange meetings
- Identify high-potential businesses, verticals and markets, and develop and execute outbound strategies to bring them to Zide
- Develop and lead campaigns from idea-generation through to qualified calls and determine how best to scale them
- Initiate contact with potential customers through cold-calling or responding to inquiries generated from Marketing
- Develop relationships with prospects to uncover needs through effective questioning to qualify interest and viability
- Follow-up with potential customers who expressed interest but did not initially result in a sales opportunity
- Effectively work through lead list meeting/exceeding SLAs, consistently update activity and contact information within the CRM system and support weekly reporting efforts
- Collaborate and provide feedback and insights to Marketing to help improve targeting and messaging
- Work with customers to support their activation & deployment of Zide services
Qualifications
- 3-5 years of sales experience, preferably in the banking, fintech or similar industries.
- Hands-on experience onboarding and managing Merchants within the finance industry and meeting sales targets.
- Strong business acumen and analytical thought process.
- Ability to execute goals independently with little or no supervision.
- Excellent communication skills.
Deadline: Not Specified.
How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should Click Here to apply online