Sales Manager, Aviation

Summary

Join Kora, the marketplace for everything payments, as a Sales Manager and drive our growth machine by expanding clientele, identifying new opportunities in the Aviation industry, and selling products to high-value customers.

Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years experience as a Sales Manager, Business Development Officer, or similar role experience in the aviation industry, tourism sector, and fast-paced B2B payment infrastructure
• Strong network in the key industries (aviation and tourism) with strong influence on your current clients
• In-depth knowledge and technical understanding of the organization’s business, product, and service offerings
• Tenacity and drive to seek new business and meet or exceed targets
• A self-starter, who understands how to build and manage their own pipeline of opportunities
• Strong business sense and industry expertise in selling business services to large businesses
• Interpersonal skills for building and developing relationships with clients and an ability to influence stakeholders
• Great written and verbal communication skills - needed for communicating with a range of people, both internally and externally, and good presentation skills

Responsibilities

• Managing and maintaining relationships with new and existing clients
• Building a pipeline of prospective partners, and then aggressively pursuing the highest value relationships to close
• Selling our APIs to High Volume Merchants (HVMs), medium-level merchants, and institutions and collecting APIs from all banks/fintech and other strategic partners for a more robust infrastructure
• Managing your own sales pipeline: prospecting, leading meetings/negotiations, and deal closing with business stakeholders in all industries
• Deep understanding of how to create a new business offering from scratch via different forms of partnerships, and strategic investments while keeping a laser focus on revenue, profitability, and market share growth
• Recommending and implementing appropriate strategies and design tactics to improve B2B sales
• Understanding the industry, business, and/or technology trends and competitor strategies to make effective decisions and compromises
• Maintaining an expert level of understanding of the company so as to provide knowledgeable support to top clients and potential partners both externally and internally
• Collaborating with other teams to make negotiations on behalf of the business to relentlessly deliver solutions that will serve evolving customer needs and drive an exceptional customer service culture
• Researching and identifying new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets
• Think strategically - seeing the bigger picture and setting aims and objectives in order to develop and improve the business and implement sales strategies that will further drive enhanced revenue generation for the business
• Presenting sales and revenue forecast to the Head of sales. Since it’s your pipeline, you’ll be able to inform and update the team on your progress and successes
• Giving market feedback to the Product team regarding solutions and how we should develop since you’ll be seeing and hearing what businesses need
• Working closely with the Product, Merchant Success, and Operations teams to translate relevant data and insights into actionable strategies that will drive sales and lead to the achievement of targets

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Sponsored and tailored training
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time-off
• Flexible work style
• Annual performance bonus
• Low-interest loans
• Employee assisted programs
• Day off on your birthday
• Employee resource groups that provide supportive communities within Kora