The Role
The Senior Sales Manager will lead the sales strategy in the Americas, coach a team member, manage personal sales targets, and collaborate across teams to enhance customer success.
Summary Generated by Built In
At PPRO, our mission is to simplify access to local payment methods and our vision is to enable the sale of goods and services to anyone in the world using their preferred way to pay. We empower partners such as Ant Group, PayPal and Stripe to access new markets, connect with more customers, and accelerate their growth.
Our strength lies in our diverse global team with 50+ nationalities and 10+ international locations- all united around one goal – to deliver the best possible products and services to our partners and customers. While our company mission is to keep innovating global commerce, our internal mission is to #chooseaction, #beopen, #thinkcustomer, #gofurther and #wintogether
The Purpose:
Join our dynamic US commercial team in Chicago as a New Business Senior Manager, where you will play a pivotal role in our fintech scale-up's growth story across the Americas. Reporting directly to the SVP Global Head of New Business Sales, you will be instrumental in shaping our Americas sales strategy, empowering your team to exceed ambitious targets, and cultivating a collaborative, inclusive culture built on a foundation of extreme ownership.
This is a unique high-velocity player-coach opportunity where you will lead an individual Sales Manager based in Sao Paulo while independently managing your own pipeline. You will be responsible for coaching and mentoring your team, ensuring they have the skills, knowledge, and support to identify, prospect, and close new Payment Service Provider (PSP) and enterprise merchant opportunities. Simultaneously, you will drive your own revenue targets with a fierce sense of urgency, champion product adoption, and contribute to ongoing innovation across the Americas.
Your Impact in This Role:
- Drive Results with Urgency: Act with a very strong sense of urgency to accelerate the sales cycle. You will take absolute accountability for both individual and team outcomes, successfully managing the pipeline from prospecting to converting PSP, gateway, acquirer/processor, and enterprise merchant opportunities
- Lead and Develop: Provide ongoing coaching and mentorship to your Sao Paulo-based report to enhance their sales skills, product knowledge, and regional market expertise, ensuring they match your pace and drive
- Foster a High-Performance Culture: Create a positive, inclusive, and collaborative team environment across North and South America where diverse viewpoints are valued, while setting a standard of uncompromising accountability and proactive initiative
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate extensively with the Sales Engineering team to effortlessly onboard new clients, and partner with Client Success and Marketing teams to deliver customer training and activation sessions without delays
- Relationship Building & Trust: Make connections with key influencers and decision-makers to drive immediate and long-term opportunities, and develop strategic customer plans for the efficient handover of accounts to Account Management teams
What Would Make You a Great Fit:
- Urgency, Accountability & Ownership: A very strong sense of urgency is an absolute requirement for this role. You possess an unwavering sense of ownership and accountability, demonstrating the ability to maintain high levels of productivity, velocity, and focus with minimal supervision
- Experience & Track Record: A minimum of 5 years of payments experience in Sales and/or Business Development roles, with a clear history of consistently achieving and exceeding ambitious sales targets in a fast-paced environment
- Exceptional Coaching & Mentoring Skills: A genuine passion for developing people, providing clear, solution-focused feedback, and empowering your Sao Paulo team member to reach their full potential and drive results in a remote/hybrid setting
- Deep Industry Knowledge: A comprehensive understanding of the FinTech payments space and the ecosystem across the Americas, particularly how our solutions are strategically important to PSPs and enterprise merchants
- Strategic & Analytical Acumen: Strong commercial, analytical, and quantitative skills, with the ability to leverage data and metrics to drive strategic decisions, back up assumptions, and swiftly optimize sales processes
- Strong Communicator & Influencer: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor communication styles to engage diverse stakeholders, including technical teams, marketing, and C-level executives. You thrive in international environments and can easily connect with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures
What's in it for you?
Hybrid working - We offer a hybrid structure with a 3 days / week on site expectation, so you can strike the balance between office and home working. In addition to our 30-day holiday allowance, we also provide a work from abroad policy, enabling employees to work remotely for up to another 30 days per year
Learning and Development - We offer a 700 USD annual budget to support your professional growth—because investing in your development benefits us all. In addition, we provide leadership cafés, on-the-job training, and other opportunities to help you grow your skills and thrive in your role.
Insurance - we want our employees to benefit from various insurances including medical insurance (health, dental and vision), disability insurance, life insurance, and travel insurance.
Savings - We want our employees to be able to invest a portion of their wages and contribute to their savings- our Health Savings Account (HSA) and our 401k plan can help you lower your taxes, pay for health care more easily and even save for retirement.
Enhance Family Leave - We understand the importance of family - that's why we offer enhanced family leave to support you during key life moments.
Gym membership - PPRO helps contribute towards the costs of your gym membership, supporting your physical fitness journey while easing the burden on your wallet
Mental Health Platform - We’ve teamed up with a top well-being platform to provide one-on-one therapy, chat therapy, therapist-led courses, guided meditations, and more.
Our office - Our office is located in the iconic Civic Opera Building on North Wacker Drive, in the heart of the Chicago Loop, offering a prestigious setting along the Chicago River in one of the city’s main business and cultural districts
Our office - Our office is located in the iconic Civic Opera Building on North Wacker Drive, in the heart of the Chicago Loop, offering a prestigious setting along the Chicago River in one of the city’s main business and cultural districts
Our Principles:
We get things done: We are courageous; we take ownership, make decisions and get things done.
We act with trust and integrity: We listen first and challenge respectfully. We seek out and leverage diverse perspectives. We welcome and offer honest and open feedback, always assuming positive intent
We put the customer first: We are laser focused on delivering outstanding outcomes for our customers. We put the customer at the heart of what we do.
We make things better: We boldly explore new ideas and have an unwavering commitment to continuous improvement.
We work as a team: We collaborate closely and value team success over individual achievement.
Skills Required
- Minimum 5 years of payments experience in Sales or Business Development
- Proven track record of achieving and exceeding sales targets
- Strong skills in coaching and mentoring team members
- Deep understanding of the FinTech payments industry
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
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The Company
What We Do
PPRO is a fintech company that provides digital payments infrastructure to businesses and banks so that they can scale their checkout, acquiring, and risk services through one connection. Payment platforms, acquirers, and merchants that plug into PPRO’s infrastructure are able to access payment methods, fraud screening tools, and other essential products from multiple providers. Every product can be deployed and controlled with clicks, not code. And with the company's orchestration layer directing process flows and data like clockwork, PPRO’s partners can rest easy knowing they’re delivering seamless end-to-end services to their customers. Citi, PayPal, and Stripe are just some of the names that depend on PPRO to accelerate their roadmaps, boost their conversions, and eliminate the complexities of digital payments.
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