Job Description

Karri is a fast growing school payments business on a mission to make school payments quick and simple for both our schools and their parents. Hundreds of schools are using Karri across South Africa. Parents and students make use of the Karri Card, a Mastercard for students managed by parents on the Karri app.By joining Karri you will have the opportunity to be a part of our rapidly growing and proudly South African Fintech team. Join us and play a pivotal role in bringing accelerated adoption of Karri to schools in South Africa. We will look to you to grow our footprint within our target market throughout South Africa.You must have sales experience at management level, preferably in the education industry.The role includes:

• Growing topline revenue
• Identifying, developing and harnessing new clients aligned to company goals
• Contributing to short-term and long-term planning to support strategic business goals
• Daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting of key metrics against targets
• Monitoring of competitors
• Participating in the planning and execution of marketing and advertising activities
• Working within our CRM system to manage and track the sales pipeline
• National travel and face to face meetings with schools are a key part of this role
• Providing training at regular intervals
• Presenting at conferences, school board meetings and the like

What youxe2x80x99ll need to qualify:

• A seasoned B2B and B2C Sales Manager with key account sales experience
• Experience in managing staff members
• Experience with CRM systems
• Ability to draw insights and translate into actionable tactics

Realities of the Role:Lots of travel and meetings with schools. Motivating team members and getting schools to take on a new system can be a challenging but hugely rewarding process. Buy-in has to come from multiple stakeholders. Working at Karri is exciting and we are treading new territory in the Education technology industry. As the Sales Manager for South Africa you will have the opportunity to contribute significantly to the companyxe2x80x99s growth.What will help you to find success in this role:xe2x97x8f High energy, charismatic individualxe2x97x8f Resilience and tenacity; being firm and fairxe2x97x8f Attention to detail and a strong focus on executionxe2x97x8f A sales and customer service mindset; you have a strong desire to draw out feedback from our clients and can present creative ways of solving real problems confronting schools

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