About Us:
Network International is the largest Financial Technology company in Middle East and Africa. Payments is our core business where we provide services in more than 50 countries – UAE, Jordan, South Africa, Egypt are some of our key markets. Apart from payments, we provide services on Data and Insights, Lending, Insurance, Risk Solutions, etc. Our core customers are businesses at every scale and segment, though recently we are growing in direct to consumer card segment as well.
Our EVP:
At Network International, we always stay ahead. . In the fast-paced world of financial services, we thrive on innovation, agility, and purposeful collaboration. We invest first in our people, empowering you to make bold decisions, learn fast, and grow your expertise alongside industry leaders. Here, solving complex problems means more than using cutting-edge technology; it’s about creating meaningful value for our customers, together. We foster a culture where trust, accountability, and achievement go hand in hand—because success isn’t just a goal; it’s how we work, every day, as one team.
About The Role:
We are looking for a commercially driven Sales Representative to grow adoption of Network's payment solutions across the Kenyan market. You will identify high-potential merchants, understand how they accept payments today, and position the right payment solution to help them convert more customers and scale confidently. This is an end-to-end sales role: from prospecting and solution discovery through commercial negotiation, merchant onboarding, activation and early-life relationship management.
ResponsibilitiesKey Responsibilities:
Build and convert a high-quality sales pipeline:
- Prospect, qualify and win new merchants through targeted outbound activity, referrals, partnerships, market events and digital lead sources.
- Build territory and sector plans that prioritize attractive online-payment opportunities, including retail, travel, hospitality, services, education, digital platforms and other high-growth merchant segments.
- Run structured discovery conversations to understand each merchant’s business model, checkout journey, payment volumes, customer base, operational constraints and growth ambitions.
- Maintain disciplined pipeline hygiene in the CRM, with clear next steps, realistic close dates and accurate sales forecasts.
Sell consultatively and shape the right solution:
- Present Network’s payment capabilities in clear commercial language, linking features to conversion, reach, customer experience, operational efficiency and revenue growth.
- Develop compelling proposals and business cases covering the recommended solution, commercial structure, implementation needs and expected merchant value.
- Lead pricing and commercial negotiations within approved parameters, balancing competitiveness, merchant value, risk and sustainable revenue.
- Coordinate demonstrations and solution discussions with Product, Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Finance and other specialist teams where required.
Own the merchant journey from agreement to activation:
- Guide merchants through application, KYC and due-diligence requirements, ensuring submissions are complete, accurate and progressed promptly.
- Partner with implementation and technical teams to coordinate integration, testing, readiness and go-live activities.
- Maintain clear communication throughout onboarding, resolve blockers quickly and set realistic expectations on dependencies and timelines.
- Follow through after go-live to support activation, first transactions and a smooth handover into the appropriate relationship-management model.
Grow revenue and market intelligence:
- Deliver agreed sales, revenue, activation and payment-volume goals, with consistent focus on quality merchants that can transact and grow.
- Identify opportunities to deepen merchant value through relevant cross-sell and upsell conversations.
- Monitor competitor activity, merchant feedback, sector trends and market needs; convert insights into practical recommendations for Sales, Product and Marketing.
- Represent the company professionally at client meetings, roadshows, conferences, exhibitions and partner events.
Key Requirements:
- A bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Commerce, Finance, Technology or a related field.
- At least 3 years of successful B2B sales or business-development experience, ideally in payments, fintech, banking, e-commerce, SaaS or merchant services.
- A demonstrable record of prospecting, building pipeline and closing new business against individual commercial targets.
- Experience managing a consultative sales cycle involving discovery, proposal development, negotiation, onboarding and stakeholder coordination.
- Working knowledge of digital commerce and online payment journeys, including how merchants accept card, mobile and alternative payment methods.
- Confidence using a CRM to manage opportunities, activities, forecasts and reporting.
- Strong written and spoken English; working proficiency in Swahili.
- Exposure to merchant onboarding, KYC/AML requirements, pricing concepts and cross-functional implementation processes.
- An established network across Kenyan e-commerce merchants, digital businesses, platforms or relevant commercial ecosystems.
Network International is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, nationalities, and experience levels. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where innovation, diversity, and performance thrive.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Commerce, Finance, Technology, or a related field
- At least 3 years of successful B2B sales or business development experience
- Experience in payments, fintech, banking, e-commerce, SaaS, or merchant services
- Demonstrated success prospecting, building pipelines, and closing new business against commercial targets
- Experience managing consultative sales cycles involving discovery, proposals, negotiation, onboarding, and stakeholder coordination
- Working knowledge of digital commerce and online payment journeys
- Confidence using CRM systems for opportunity management, forecasting, activities, and reporting
- Strong written and spoken English
- Working proficiency in Swahili
- Exposure to merchant onboarding, KYC/AML requirements, pricing concepts, and cross-functional implementation processes
- Established network across Kenyan e-commerce merchants, digital businesses, platforms, or relevant commercial ecosystems
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.
Network International Insights
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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