Business Development Intern at Yoco

Job description

Hello, we’re Yoco, and we’re looking for a top-performing, ambitious individual interested in launching their career in sales.

Our internship programme will expose you to the inner workings of a fast-growing startup, as well as offer the many perks that come with it. This internship is a full-time time for a fixed 6 months - you will be in office everyday for a full day.

From day one, you’re given the opportunity to drive innovation and execute strategies that will take Yoco to the next level. You’ll experience a cycle of learning, succeeding, falling down, getting up, and going back for more.

ROLE | WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING?

The Business Development team plays a key role in this next phase of our growth and has the responsibility of creating partnerships with leading channels and service providers with the objective of acquiring tens of thousands of new merchants (Yes, we are ambitious), creating new revenue opportunities, and making Yoco the best product that entrepreneurs use to run and grow their business.

As a Business Development Intern you will works alongside the Business Development Senior Team as the aim to create meaningful partnerships that accelerate growth or enhance the product experience for our merchants.

We are looking for someone to join our team who thinks differently about problems and values important relationships. This person will deliver value to business development team by using their analytical skills to generate to data to support informed decisions, draw on their creativity to support the business development team to build relevant and highly effective co-marketing programs.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy Development: Assist in Developing joint company strategic planning focusing on product offering, go-to-market plan, performance objectives and financial targets;
• New Business Development: Proactively identify and assess new partnership opportunities and perform outreach to these potential partners.
• Performance Management: Continually revisit and analyze partnerships to determine patterns and make optimization.
• Yoco Ambassador: Serve as an evangelist both inside Yoco and externally.

IDEAL CANDIDATE | WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

Key Requirements To Perform Responsibilities

• Life long learner, loves a challenge, is a true problem-solver
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Team player
• You take initiative and proactively seek out the resources needed to solve the problem at hand.
• Ability to easily adapt to a number of environments
• You can drive your own boat: the ability to fearlessly use the resources at your fingertips to resolve technical challenges especially when you don't know the answer
• Eager to launch a career in sales

Bonus Points

• Tech-Savvy
• Knowledge of payments and the mobile Point of Sale space
• Experience in Small Business / B2B sales
• Familiarity with payment business models;
• Technical understanding of point-of-sale technology;
• Management consulting experience;
• Undergraduate Degree

EXPECTATIONS OF AN INTERN AT YOCO

• Dealing with People
• Communicating & influencing: Strong communication skills across various mediums, building collaborative relationships internally and externally.
• Dealing with Business
• Preventing & solving problems: Diagnostic information gathering and research, analytical thinking, application of conceptual thinking to problem solving.
• Achieving results: Proactive / initiative, customer orientated, fostering innovation, continuous improvement mind-set, appreciation of results, business acumen, thoroughness and detail orientated
• Dealing with Self-management
• Self-confidence, personal credibility, flexibility, adaptability and strong sense of personal accountability

VALUE PROPOSITION | WHAT WILL YOU BE GETTING?

As part of the Yoco team, you will have the opportunity to play a key role in the growth of the mobile Point of Sale opportunity in South Africa.

To support this we have built a role-based organisation; where every individual is given the space to focus and develop his or her innate strengths. Everyone here has the opportunity to lead a project and become a specialist, enabling flexibility, collaboration and accountability at all levels.

We offer a competitive package for an early stage venture; with flexible working hours and time off when you need it. In addition to this you will have the opportunity to participate in our Equity Incentive scheme, which will be uncapped based on performance.