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Lagos, Nigeria

Interswitch is an Africa-focused integrated digital payments and commerce company that facilitates the electronic circulation of money as well as the exchange of value between individuals and organizations.• Good understanding and selling services/products within the Fintech industry.• Generate a strong pipeline of leads through networking.• Utilize existing networks and relationships to build new businesses.• Establish and develop a strategy for identifying and closing new agent sales opportunities.• Overseeing the end-to-end business development process for prospective agency candidates, from initial contact to onboarding.• Foster innovation and contribute to the ongoing initiatives to continuously improve our approach to efficiently and effectively meet the organization's growth goals.• Achieve the overall top of funnel targets as agreed across all channels. • Identify new channel partners and develop/manage existing partners –implement and execute our partners’ program to grow the top of the funnel of our sales pipeline.Achievements: • Lead generation –implement and execute demand generation strategy to grow the top of the funnel of our sales pipeline.• Led the overall growth strategy of our top of the funnel program and identified new opportunities for growth through demand generation and channels program.• Communicated consistently with channel partners and internal stakeholders, managed issues, resolved conflicts and enabled support.

Lagos, Nigeria

3Line creates innovative cutting-edge solutions that have revolutionized retail financial services in Nigeria. • Developed and implemented structural & marketing strategies for the company.• Developed and followed through with multiple business lines.• Established new markets and solutions segment mapping.• Managed client engagement and ensured an appropriate feedback mechanism.• Managed existing products and developed new ones.• Managed card acceptance, production, and operations• Managed brand and corporate communications.• Managed relationships to enhance growth in the client base.• Established and managed supplies and distribution chain.Achievement:Recorded over 200% business growth

Lagos, Nigeria

• Led the issuer management team to deliver set results.• Provided consulting services to banks & others for business growth.• Designed and implemented structural and marketing strategies.• Developed and implemented B2B and B2C sales strategies for card solutions.• Managed relationships of partner banks.• Manage Verve products and develop new ones per market requirements• Oversaw service delivery to partner banks• Organized and managed promos to drive card issuance and usage.• Managed relationships with partners, suppliers, resellers that contributed to solutions delivery.• Established and managed the card ordering process.Achievements:Sales activities resulted in the addition of 13 financial institutions to the Interswitch platform andgrowing the Verve card base of around 1 million to over 19 million in less than 4 years.

Lagos

Guaranty Trust Bank PLC, also known as GTBank or simply GTB is a Nigerian multinational financial institution, which offers online/internet banking, retail banking, corporate banking, investment banking, and asset management services.• Organized and led direct sales teams.• Managed product documentation and communication.• Conceptualized and implemented sales avenues.• Managed weekly sales performance report bank-wide.• Direct sales of MasterCard & Visa solutions• Established and managed regional sales desks.• Supported the Unit Head in research, analysis, and development of new card products.• Managed existing products to ensure market relevance.Achievements:• Member of the pioneer team that set up and grew the GTBank e-Business to the position it occupies in the industry today.• Successfully setup and managed 2 regional desks.VALUCARD ADMINISTRATOR, E-BUSINESS & CARD SERVICES GROUP• Purchase, configuration, and deployment ValuCard terminals.• Installation of CardBase software on systems and terminals.• Purchase and management of terminal consumables and accessories.• Purchase and inventory management of cards.• Vendors and service providers relationship management.• Reconciliation and settlement of merchant transactions.• Provided training and support for ValuCard tellers at the branches.• Relationship management with ValuCard Nigeria Plc• Prepared and sent monthly E-Business report to CBN.• Handled card branding matters.• End-to-end processing of card requests.• ValuCard server activities.• Managed relationship with merchants and handled complaints and enquiries.

Lagos, Nigeria

United Bank for Africa Plc, is a Nigerian pan-African financial services group headquartered in Lagos.• Oversaw account opening, account closing, and product sales activities.• Built positive working relationships with existing customers for repeat businesses.• Made follow-up calls with customers and closed all pending items.• Identified and contacted potential customers to increase the customer base.• Worked with management to develop customer retention and outreach strategies.• Maintained up-to-date knowledge about bank products and services.• Worked in compliance with bank policies and procedures.• Maintained customer accounts, made sales calls to customers to identify & cross-sell opportunities.• Provided support to the personal banking department when needed.Achievements:Attended to over 80 customers daily, met the turn-around-time of 5 minutes and the targets for account-opening.