Alternative Channels Sales Specialist
Vodacom Tanzania
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Full-Time
22nd June 2023
Role purpose:
- Overall accountability of managing new alternative sales channels to meet strategic business objectives
- Develop, plan, execute and evaluate the performance of onboarded accounts
- Drive and responsible for M-Pesa Business accounts service management (trainings)
- Monitor M-Pesa Business accounts performance and cross sell M-Pesa products to Businesses
- Work together with the team to drive M-Pesa Business initiatives, partnerships and ensure they are timely executed
Key Accountabilities
- Overall responsible for driving the M-Pesa Business alternative channels acquisition and support
- Manage service delivery for the acquired accounts and cross sell other M-Pesa products
- Support to accelerate regional performance and drive initiatives for revenue growth
- Support M-Pesa Business new and existing businesses’ projects
- Initiate and conduct end to end new trainings and re-trainings for the acquired business accounts
- Responsible for reactivations of dormant, droppers and stoppers business accounts
- Working closely to support sales team to identify new potential growth areas
Key performance indicators:
- Accelerates number of B2C and C2B accounts acquired
- Accurate and timely delivery of the Acquisition KPI’s as per the strategy
- End to end execution of M-Pesa propositions to the business acquired via this channel
- Quality of support and stakeholder alignment
Core Competencies, Knowledge, And Experience
- Excellent analytical and logical reasoning skills translated from consumer insights
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong Sales and negotiation skills
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Ability to anticipate customer, competitor and market dynamics
- Able to challenge the status quo
Must have technical/professional qualifications:
- 3+ years’ experience sales and distribution industry or functional experience
- Bachelor degree in Business Administration, Economics, Marketing or its equivalent
- Strong analytical skills and business acumen
- Build and maintain relationship with key stakeholders in the value chain
- Telecommunications experience would be advantageous
- Project knowledge and experience would be advantageous
Skills
- Digital Advocacy
- Competitor Awareness and Cross Sell
- Ownership
- Building Rapport
- Resilience
- Building and Proposing solutions
- Empathy
- Objection Handling and Negotiation
- Identifies Customer Needs
- Dynamic Prioritisation and Multi-tasking
- Customer Centricity