Sales and Marketing · Full-time
Direct employerSenior Sales Manager: Global Payments- Kenya, Nigeria, Botswana, Zambia,Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana, Middle East, Europe

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Role overview
Cellulant is hiring a Senior Sales Manager for Global Payments. The role is based in Nairobi, Kenya, but involves targeting clients in Europe, the Middle East, and several African countries. It suits experienced sales professionals with a background in payments or fintech, especially in airlines, e-commerce, or telecommunications sectors.
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What you will do
- Develop and implement a sales plan targeting airlines, e-commerce, and telecommunications sectors based on commercial priorities.
- Achieve new-client revenue and gross profit targets, ensuring pricing and deal terms comply with company policies.
- Create and manage a pipeline of large enterprise prospects, identifying key decision makers, business needs, deal values, and next steps.
- Lead acquisition of large global and regional enterprise customers, engaging senior stakeholders in payments, finance, technology, and procurement.
- Manage complex multi-market sales cycles from prospecting through contract signing and support client activation to first revenue.
- Coordinate responses to high-value RFPs and tenders, ensuring internal collaboration and commercially viable agreements.
- Work with cross-functional teams including Product, Technology, Operations, Finance, Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Customer Experience during sales and client onboarding.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
- Proven success in winning large new enterprise clients and meeting revenue and profit targets.
- Strong experience selling payments or fintech solutions, preferably to airlines, e-commerce, or telecommunications companies.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and convert a substantial enterprise sales pipeline with examples of client wins and commercial results.
- Experience managing complex sales cycles across multiple countries involving senior decision makers and contract negotiations.
- Established network of enterprise decision makers in Europe or the Middle East, with ability to build new relationships; experience selling into African markets is advantageous.
- Proven success in at least one target sector with ability to expand into others.
- Excellent written and spoken English, confident in executive presentations, and willing to travel internationally; additional languages are a plus.
Benefits
Cellulant offers market-related compensation, generous personal time off, and medical and life insurance benefits where applicable.
How to apply
The employer has not published a closing date.