Vice President, Business Development

4 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Thunes Full time

**About Thunes**

Thunes is a B2B company that powers payments for the world's fastest-growing businesses - from Gig Economy giants such as Uber and Deliveroo and Southeast Asia's superapp Grab, to global Fintech leaders such as PayPal and Remitly.

With a single, simple connection, your business and customers can send payments to - and get paid in - every corner of the world. Instantly.

We support 79 currencies, enable payments to 130+ countries, and help you accept 300 payment methods. Thunes is headquartered in Singapore with regional offices in London, Paris, Shanghai, New York, Dubai, and Nairobi.

**Overview of the role**

The VP, Business Development - SADC, based in Johannesburg, is ultimately responsible for driving revenue across the SADC region. Taking a hands-on approach, you will expand our customer base by defining, developing, and delivering on short and long term commercial strategies.

This is a key commercial leader in our business and is responsible for delivering profitable growth and exceeding targets from new and existing accounts in the SADC region whilst leading and developing a lean, high performing sales team.

Thunes is seeing explosive growth globally and Africa remains a key region where we are laser focussed on it's expansion. We are looking for an ambitious leader who wants to lead this next phase of growth and be part of something big that is only getting bigger each and every day

**Key Responsibilities**
- Creating and executing the overall sales and business development plan for Thunes across the SADC region
- Hands on management of the end-to-end sales cycle, including lead generation, managing live accounts, and working closely with C suites to close deals
- Developing sales strategies using your local market expertise to maximise go-to-market resources and execute against relevant opportunities
- Lead, mentor and develop a high performing distributed sales team
- Ensure excellent communication and internal coordination to roll-out new services, considering market specificity (regulation, competition etc.)
- Managing existing accounts to maximise revenue through cross and up selling opportunities and maximising customer satisfaction
- Providing timely reports to the Sales Ops team regarding performance, sales activity, account management and strategy, as well as advise on local industry trends
- Initiate and maintain a strong links between customers and back-office services to ease communication and facilitate the resolution of any issues

**What we are looking for**
- Strong academic background, such as a degree in Business, Economics or similar
- 10+ years experience in client-facing sales roles including direct work experience in the Payments industry
- Experience negotiating and closing deals with Banks and Mobile Wallets operators
- Extensive experiences of negotiations with C-level executives in the Payment Industry
- Credible experience leading and developing high performing sales teams
- Strong balance of both strategic planning and active hands-on approach is a must
- Must possess a can-do, entrepreneurial drive, focusing on solving problems creatively with a high level of energy. This is critical both as a cultural fit and based on the nature of internal business growth plans
- Ability to work effectively in a global, high-growth, fast-paced, high energy and team-oriented environment
- Ability to influence and build credibility across all levels hence building collaborative relationships
- Strong communicator in written and spoken English, any other native languages will be an added advantage
- Approximate travel frequency of 50%

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