The Sales Manager is primarily responsible for generating new business & client relationships in the Southern Africa region. Network has existing client relationships in South Africa and the Sales Manager will also be responsible for assisting in managing the relationships with clients, regulators, partners, and prospects and thus also generating cross selling opportunities to Network’s existing clients.
Responsibilities- Develop a Sales Plan for the specific sector, geography and/or target account.
- Prospect and close profitable new accounts, contracts, and deals.
- Win new business to meet agreed monthly, quarterly & annual targets.
- Co-Develop a BD/sales plan with the help of the regional partners.
- Support the overall Business development strategy for Network across all products, including identification of key segments & accounts and definition of customer propositions and key messages.
- Developing a sales pipeline which is adequate, or greater than adequate to deliver monthly targets.
- Possess the ability to learn Network’s products and services and be able to present these
- Professionally to potential customers. Respond to received referrals within agreed timeframes.
- Ability to produce business cases in partnership of the finance.
- Develop appropriate relationships with potential customers with the intention of winning profitable business for Network.
- The negotiation of terms with customers which maximizes the long-term profitability of Network.
- Presenting Network to potential clients through direct communication in face-to-face meetings, telephone calls and emails.
- Actively and successfully manage the sales process: this includes lead generation, client pitch; negotiations, closing deal and handover to the account management team.
- Individual responsibility for new business and has the ability to self-manage.
- Professional representation of the company and brand internally and externally.
- Managing and maintaining a pipeline and ensuring all sales administration is accurate and up to date.
- Create and be accountable for all client proposals, contracts and any further documentation.
- Responding to tenders and requests for information in a timely manner.
- Effectively interact with other departments including the account management and technical team when handing over clients.
- Ensuring Network remains proactive and responsive to prospective clients.
- Accurately pricing new relationships in line with agreed pricing policy.
- Transitioning new accounts to client management.
Education : Bachelor’s Degree in commerce (ideal)
Experience :
• Payments and/or banking industry experience
• Experience in a business development/sales environment
• Experience in high-value B2B sales
• Existing relationships with bank executives in the region would be advantageous
Languages : Very Good command of Portuguese and English (Speaking, reading, and writing).
Personal:
• Self-starter and self-motivated
• Payments and/or banking industry experience
• Experience in a business development/sales environment
• Experience in high-value B2B sales
• Existing relationships with bank executives in the region would be advantageous
Skills Required
- Payments and/or banking industry experience
- Experience in a business development/sales environment
- Experience in high-value B2B sales
- Very good command of Portuguese and English (speaking, reading, writing)
- Self-starter and self-motivated
- Existing relationships with bank executives in the region
- Bachelor's degree in commerce (ideal)
Network International Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Network International and has not been reviewed or approved by Network International.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Pay is considered decent in some roles and is often paired with bonuses. Phrases like 'salary plus bonuses' indicate variable pay is a meaningful component for certain positions.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical coverage extends to employees, spouses, and up to three children, alongside life insurance. This breadth signals a robust healthcare baseline for the region.
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Retirement Support — Retirement and termination benefits align with UAE/GCC norms, including pension contributions for nationals and end‑of‑service gratuity for expatriates. Such provisions indicate structured, region‑appropriate retirement support.
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What We Do
Over the past 30 years, we have built a business based on long-standing and trusted relationships with many of the leading merchants, financial institutions and payment networks operating in the Middle East and Africa. Such relationships are based on our comprehensive capabilities, scale, local presence in the multiple markets in which we operate, alongside our trusted reputation. This gives us significant scale and leadership in the region, where we operate in more than 50 countries, serve over 130,000 merchants and 250 financial institutions and fintech customers, whilst managing more than 16 million customer credentials. We have a diversified business model and operate across the entire consumer payments value chain. We do this with a growth-focused strategy through two business lines: • That enables our merchant customers to ‘take payments’, by providing them with various payment acceptance methods, both online and offline. • Which supports our financial institution, fintech and other payment issuing institution customers in enabling consumers ‘make payments’, by managing and processing their consumer payment credentials and transactions.
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