Sales Development Representative (Fintech)

Location: Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria; work UK business hours.

Company

hirify.global provides payment infrastructure enabling African and international consumers and businesses to make and receive borderless payments.

What you will do

• Generate, research, qualify, nurture, and manage a pipeline of UK-based enterprise prospects through the sales funnel.
• Run multi-channel outbound outreach via email, phone, and LinkedIn to UK decision-makers while observing UK direct-marketing rules.
• Connect qualified leads with sales closers, arrange meetings and calls, and collaborate on strategies to achieve UK sales targets.
• Develop UK-specific lead-generation approaches and monitor market trends, competition, regulatory changes, payments, fintech, and cross-border payments into Africa.
• Support onboarding and the initial customer experience with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Manage a small portfolio of existing UK Enterprise clients, including administrative support, FX trading, and cross-selling.

Requirements

• 5–9 years of sales development representative experience with a record of exceeding lead targets and sales quotas.
• Demonstrable knowledge of the UK business landscape, payments and fintech ecosystem, and UK merchant and enterprise buying behavior.
• Experience prospecting into UK-based businesses.
• Working awareness of UK payments and outbound-sales regulations, including FCA, UK GDPR, and PECR.
• Proficiency with customer relationship management software.
• Strong verbal and written communication, relationship-building, problem-solving, negotiation, analytical, organizational, and time-management skills.
• Knowledge of sales techniques and strategies.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively, and to work UK business hours.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, sales, or a related field.

Nice to have

• An existing network in UK payments, fintech, e-commerce, travel, or Africa-focused corridors.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to grow within the sales organization.
• Work involves collaboration with sales and cross-functional internal stakeholders.
• Customer, employee, and other personal information must be processed and protected according to applicable privacy policies, laws, UK GDPR, PECR, and global best practices.

Hiring process

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