Country Sales Lead
We are looking for a Country Sales Lead to join Bolt Business. You’ll be leading and managing Bolt Business in Tanzania and Uganda. You’ll manage a very hungry sales team, be responsible for the country’s results and close your own pipeline of Tier 1 clients. You’ll be a hunter, with significant experience of winning and closing deals or all sizes, managing teams and driving success in everything you do. You’ll have a deep understanding of sales methodologies, particularly in SaaS or service sales into SME / large business space, be a CRM master and know the tricks of the trade to drive sales. You’ll own the country pipeline, be a coach and mentor to your team and you’ll thrive in a fast paced scale up environment, getting things done, smashing down blockers and finding the opportunities in the market.
B4B has big targets, the product is evolving, getting better and better and our ambitions are high – aiming for 10X growth in the next 12 months. To achieve that, we’re looking for focused, hungry hunters, brimming with ambition and talent – thriving on sales and success. In this role you’ll get plenty of autonomy, manage a brilliant team and you’ll be closing significant deals with the biggest businesses.
It’s an amazing time to join!
Owning country B4B performance, meeting & exceeding targets & KPIs
Building your own Tier 1 & 2 pipeline of opportunities and closing/winning high value deals
Managing, coaching & improving team performance
Performance managing team members and ensuring all the team are meeting targets
Maintaining & growing existing client relationships
Recruitment & on-boarding of new team members
Identifying & removing blockers to growth and working ad-hoc B4B sales projects
Oversee market B4B spend/P&L
Feed insights, opportunities and feedback to the product teams
Working closely with the Head of Sales on go-to market strategies and play-books
Remove performance bottlenecks/blockers and work projects to improve performance
BS/MS degree in Business Administration or a related field
At least 5+ years experience in B2B Sales, with at least 2+ years managing sales teams
A self-starter, keen, ambitious and hungry to get results. Relentless and experienced in identifying target leads, reaching out and generating sales from cold leads
A leader, who can motivate a team and drive results from the front, you close deals, you win deals and you drive the team to do the same. A hungry hunter – with the experience to lead a country to success
History of negotiating and closing Tier 1 and Tier 2 deals, ideally in SaaS or selling a service into the SME / Large business sectors
Be a hunter, with a history of hitting ambitious targets and thrive on sales and smashing targets
Excellent communication skills in both English and the local language
Proven ability to drive the sales process from plan to close
Strong business sense and industry expertise of selling business services into SME and large businesses
A CRM master, able to analyse the data to maximise the activities of your team
Experience coaching, mentoring and performance managing team members
Strong business sense and industry expertise of selling B2B business services into large businesses
A born negotiator, able to navigate contracts and blockers to get deals closed
Organised, process-driven, with a great knowledge of sales techniques in B2B sales