Director Business Development West Africa

2 months ago


Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria MasterCard Full time

Role

Working in direct collaboration with our Account Management colleagues that manage/own customer relationships, the B2B Regional & Global product teams, Data & Services and other cross functional teams, the successful candidate will

  • Grow, maintain, convert, and track a healthy pipeline of Large Market/B2B opportunities across all issuers, including new players in this space. Meet and exceed KPIs on Pipeline Value, Conversion rate, time-to-revenue and Y1/Y2 revenue.
  • Support issuers through the LM/B2B journey by clearly and simply articulate the value MC can bring both around Product, D&S and other Services capabilities Cyber & Intelligence, New Payment Platforms, etc..
  • Bring to bear the entire Mastercard capability set, across all functions, to close out deals
  • Create, drive, and win deals with Financial Institution FI partners for both card & invoice led flows and own the response to RFPs when required
  • Take responsibility for training the sales teams inside the FI partners and supporting their ongoing product knowledge development to enable them to sell into their customer base.
  • Where it is optimal, undertake Direct -to-Corporate D2C activities, working directly with Large Market/Mid-Market corporates that have significant procurement activity. Assist them in identifying pain points in their procurement processes, articulate solutions that leverage Mastercard platforms & products and have them make the brand decision in favor of Mastercard. Once that is done, then in discussion with Regional B2B Head, take these prospective LM/MM corporate customers to Issuers/FI partners in a completely agnostic manner and help them make decisions around which partners to go with.
  • Own deal implementation & go-live in partnership with B2B Program Managers where available or directly interface with TAMs to drive implementation of deals
  • Develop and manage a Commercial BD events schedule

KPIs

  • GDV
  • Net Revenue
  • Pipeline size & conversion of pipeline deals
  • Deal activation rates
  • Other strategic & tactical KPIs that may be added from time to time

All About You

  • Good knowledge of the Commercial Large Market segment and it's AP/Procure-to-Pay and AR/Order-to-Cash cycle pain points
  • Working knowledge of the Commercial Card / Transaction Banking industry with a demonstrated experience in sales/product/customer management in these businesses.
  • Self-motivated with a demonstrated track record of success
  • Ability to interact with external clients
  • Successful salesperson with ability to generate and follow up on leads independently
  • Good communication skills and active participation to contribute to team settings
  • Proactivity, curiosity to learn and eagerness to innovate
  • Demonstrated success in commercial management/relationship roles with a strong track record of success
  • Superior interpersonal and communications skills and an ability to bring together internal and external stakeholders to create solutions for customers and have them implemented.
  • Experience in identifying strategic opportunities and of managing multiple stakeholder projects.


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