Nium, the Leader in Real-Time Global Payments

Nium, the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, was founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. With the onset of the global economy, its payments infrastructure is shaping how banks, fintechs, and businesses everywhere collect, convert, and disburse funds instantly across borders. Its payout network supports 100 currencies and spans 190+ countries, 100 of which in real-time.

Funds can be disbursed to accounts, wallets, and cards and collected locally in 40 markets. Nium's growing card issuance business is already available in 34 countries. Nium holds regulatory licenses and authorizations in more than 40 countries, enabling seamless onboarding, rapid integration, and compliance – independent of geography. The company is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore.

About the Role

Your primary responsibilities will be to acquire new clients in selected countries in Middle East and generate incremental revenues for the company. You will be spending a good amount of your energy understanding new clients, acquiring new clients, regularly analyzing the key clients business, operations and performance, and work with the management team and peers in other functional areas to leverage best practices and provide consistent high competent sales skills.

Responsibilities
Demonstrate an entrepreneurial mindset and the highest degree of effectiveness across Nium's market leading propositions, such as banking
Identify, secure, and manage relationships with banking, financial institution and other clients across Middle East and Central Asia, effectively negotiating and persuading potential clients the value that Nium can add to their business
Have a constant drive to go beyond past performance and visibly demonstrate track record beating performance when it comes achieving financial targets, and ability to generate sales leads, effectively negotiate, and close transactions
Generate revenue from clients, and achieve pre-agreed targets on customer flows, revenues, and profitability
Demonstrate business development and consultative selling skills with results-orientation to meet/exceed assigned financial and customer satisfaction goals
Pro-actively hunt for opportunities in the marketplace through direct contact as well as partners. The job will involve building relationships with key players in banks, financial institutions and other target segments to generate qualified opportunities, mapping the account, influencing key decision-makers, convincing the client about the value proposition and closing the deal
Requirements
5-10+ year's sales experience (from sourcing to go-live) in selling payment solutions to other regulated Financial Institutions and clients seeking cross border payment solutions
Strong track record of outperforming commercial targets in past sales roles
Ability to independently source deals in the selected client segments to create a healthy sales pipeline, and position Nium's solutions appropriately
Commercially focused and pragmatic, able to identify opportunities and propose solutions focussing on the value Nium adds rather than merely competing on price
Ability to understand and tailor approach to individual customers with empathy, effectively playing the role of problem-solver for the customer
Data driven and analytical mindset
Results-oriented, client focused and obsessed with simultaneously delivering value
Self-motivated, adept in working individually and as part of a global team
Proficiency in Arabic is preferred

What we offer at Nium
We Value Performance: Through competitive salaries, performance bonuses, sales commissions, equity for specific roles and recognition programs, we ensure that all our employees are well rewarded and incentivized for their hard work.
We Care for Our Employees: The wellness of Nium'ers is our #1 priority. We offer medical coverage along with 24/7 employee assistance program, generous vacation programs including our year-end shut down. We also provide a flexible working hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office).
We Upskill Ourselves: We are curious, and always want to learn more with a focus on upskilling ourselves. We provide role-specific training, internal workshops, and a learning stipend.
We Celebrate Together: We recognize that work is also about creating great relationships with each other. We celebrate together with company-wide social events, team bonding activities, happy hours, team offsites, and much more!
We Thrive with Diversity: Nium is truly a global company, with more than 33 nationalities, based in 18+ countries and more than 10 office locations. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.
For more detailed region specific benefits : https://www.nium.com/careers#careers-perks
For more information visit www.nium.com
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We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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