Business Development Executive, Housing & Travels

Responsibilities

• Executing strategies for driving Housing & Travels transaction growth across Quickteller channels
• Create plans to improve consumer adoption of lifestyle services
• Prepare business justification plans to address identified business opportunities and work with the product team to create a product market fit
• Propose potential business deals by contacting potential strategic partners; discovering and exploring opportunities with said partners to leverage their existing network/offerings
• Developing and negotiating contracts; integrating contract requirements with business operations
• Ensure adequate financial projection and monitoring of revenue
• Monitor process completion and go-live
• Drive the expansion of Interswitch’s lifestyle offerings into other African markets using the Quickteller Brand
• Contribute to Interswitch’s valuation strategy by ensuring Quickteller’s dominance in the Housing, Transportation & Travel space
• Work with various internal groups to drive the profitability of Quickteller’s consumer business
• Develop understanding of product profitability levers and produce plans to improve the online product proposition eg balance building and retention activities
• Closely track the business metrics and analytics, and works with the product manager to identify and resolve issues

Requirements

• TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
• Research and Strategy
• Business/Market Intelligence
• Business Analysis
• Customer Insights
• Presentation Skills
• Contract Negotiation
• Lead Generation
• BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES
• Personal Credibility
• Customer (internal & external) focus
• Excellent Oral & Written communication skills Active Collaborator Result-oriented
• Ability to multi-task
• Confident
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Adventurous/ intuitive
• EDUCATION
• Good first degree from a reputable institution
• An MBA would be an added advantage
• EXPERIENCE
• 2 – 5 years in similar role in the B2C space