CareerPlan

Senior Business Development Manager (Africa)

NairobiFull-time2026-09-30 → 2026-11-11

Core

Drive strategic new business and commercial growth for a global financial infrastructure platform serving enterprise merchants in the payments and fintech sector.

Role type

Senior Business Development Manager (Enterprise)

Builds

Enterprise merchant acquisition and pipeline development for programmable financial accounts and global payment acceptance.

Domain

Fintech / Global Payments

Required skills

Business development, sales, online payments/fintech industry knowledge, pay-ins (card acquiring and APMs), B2B deal management, complex sales cycles, stakeholder management, market analysis, strategic relationship building.

Preferred skills

PSP experience, fast-paced environment experience.

Technologies

Card acquiring, APMs, digital asset rails, programmable financial accounts.

Responsibilities

Identify, engage, and win enterprise merchants through a consultative sales approach; build and develop a high-quality pipeline of enterprise-level opportunities; act as a trusted advisor to enterprise merchants; leverage payments expertise to engage senior enterprise stakeholders; own the full sales cycle for complex, multi-market enterprise deals; collaborate cross-functionally to design enterprise-grade merchant solutions; contribute to market positioning as a strategic ambassador; translate market insights into commercial opportunities; develop long-term strategic relationships with key enterprise merchants and ecosystem partners.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC