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Job Title: Senior Sales Manager

Location: Yaoundé, Cameroon (Hybrid) 

Industry: Commercial Finance / Financial Services

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Client Overview

Our client helps business in Africa pay their international suppliers. They have raised over $18m from leading investors and venture capital firms like Creandum, Y Combinator & General Catalyst. Their leadership team brings decades of experience in emerging markets and fintech.

Role Overview 

We are looking for a high-performing Sales Manager to help us meet our customer acquisition and revenue gth targets by keeping our company competitive and innovative. As CMR Sales Manager, you will be responsible for maximizing our sales team potential, crafting sales plans and justifying those plans to the upper management. 

We´re on a mission to transform how $670 billion in cross-border business payments are made each year in Africa. Reporting to Cameroon GM, this role will be at the center of our gth strategy in the CEMAC region - building a deep understanding of the market and potential customers, testing new acquisition channels, and scaling those that work to meet ambitious gth targets.

Key Responsibilities 

• Acquire new corporate customers in Cameroon (and rest of CEMAC region as we expand) 
• Implement strategies for retaining customers while increasing their volume
• Drive revenue gth 
• Map out the competitive landscape in CMR (Track competitor pricing) and where our value proposition lies 
• Refine our sales pitch and build compelling sales materials 
• Test different acquisition channels and build new processes to scale the ones that work 
• Be the voice of the customer — and work with our product and ops team to make sure we are meeting the needs and expectations of our customers, in a localized way

Requirements: 

• 5+ years of experience as a Sales leadership position in a high-performing environment, ideally in the fintech or startup space 
• Results-driven mindset 
• Highly resourceful and organized 
• Ability to work independently 

 Language requirements:

• Fluent in English
• Fluent in French 

Nice to Haves: 

• “No task too small” mindset 
• Previous experience at early-stage VC-backed start-up, or at top-tier consultancy, etc. 
• Previous experience working in or with emerging markets 
• Previous experience building and working with online CRM tools 
• You care about our mission and believe the current situation facing African businesses is unfair 
• Hungry for high pace, rapid gth, broad exposure, and autonomy

Disclaimer: By engaging with this recruitment process, you consent to the sharing of any information you provide with our client, should they request it. You also confirm that, to the best of your knowledge, there are no legal, financial, professional, or personal circumstances that would prevent you from being eligible for hire. Participation in this process implies full transparency and a good-faith commitment to accurate disclosure. If you have not received a response from the Talent Acquisition team within 4 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Date expiration : 14-08-2025

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