Junior Business Development Manager | Finance | Gauteng needed at Salesworx Recruitment Ltd

Job Description

• Salesworx is partnering with a leading fintech innovator that empowers South African SMEs through fast, flexible, and transparent funding solutions. Join a team that’s redefining access to business finance through technology and customer-centric design.
• As the Business Development Manager you’ll be bringing on new customers sourced from your own network as well as a variety of new-business channels. You will need to understand their customers’ commercial needs and help them obtain the finance they need to grow their businesses

You will be:

• Selling their business finance solution to a wide range of SMEs in South Africa.
• Building a pipeline of prospects and engaging and building trust with them.
• Researching, calling, meeting with and/or demoing to clients.
• Driving and closing on new-business leads as well as repeat-business from existing customers.
• Assisting new customers with completing their applications, pre-screening them, obtaining missing documentation, and ensuring completeness of applications.
• Working independently and in charge of your own time and how you spend it.
• Responsible for meeting monthly sales targets.
• Using their analytical and CRM systems to manage, track and communicate with customers.

Requirements

You will need to:

• Be dynamic, high-energy and able to establish rapport with customers.
• Have good business acumen and be able to hold conversations with business owners and answer difficult questions.
• Be independent, self-motivated and resourceful.

It will be useful to have although not absolutely required:

• A Tertiary degree in Economics, Finance or Investments
• 3+ years experience in related or similar sectors (for example: lending, trade-finance, banking, insurance, accounting or technology/software sectors)
• B2B (business-to-business) sales experience is preferred