Direct Sales - Merchant Payments - 12 month contract London/HYbrid
Posted 5 days ago by 1749295278
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The role involves a business developer/sales consultant responsible for driving payment acceptance growth through direct sales to merchants in key UK verticals such as transport, hotels, retail, airlines, and restaurants. The position requires building a robust sales pipeline, engaging with merchants, and collaborating with internal stakeholders to meet key performance indicators. Candidates should have a background in selling payment solutions, particularly from card payments organizations. The role is a 12-month contract with a hybrid working arrangement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive payment acceptance growth through direct sales to merchants.
- Build and maintain a robust pipeline of new sales opportunities.
- Engage with merchants to drive client acceptance take-up.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure completion of the sales cycle.
- Manage and escalate risk and customer-impacting issues to management.
Key Skills:
- Experience in selling payment solutions to merchants.
- Background in card payments.
- Previous experience at organizations like Elavon, Worldpay, Global Payments, etc.
- Strong business development and sales skills.
- Ability to manage a sales pipeline effectively.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Sales
My client are looking for an experience business developer /sales consultant to be responsible for driving my clients payment acceptance growth, through a direct to merchant sales approach, in key verticals within the UK (transport, hotels retail, airlines, restaurants) The role involves building and maintaining a robust pipeline of new sales opportunities, engagement with merchants to drive client acceptance take-up, and collaboration with internal stakeholders to ensure the sales cycle is completed & is delivering key KPI’s in acceptance. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management. Candidates should have previous experience of selling to payment solutions to merchants ideally coming from a card payments background and previous experience at organisations like: Elavon, Worldpay, Global Payments, Ayden, Cardnet, Planet Payments, checkout, nuvei, barclaycard payments Role is for 12 months. Hybrid (mostly remote - option to go perm for right candidate if good after proving themselves) Please send CV in first instance to be considered. We are preferred supplier to client Clayton@octopusintl.com (card payments, business development, sales, direct sales consultant, new business development, business developer, sales manager, direct merchant sale, payment sales, account manager)