Business Development Executive at ClearScore

Description

ClearScore is looking for a new Business Development Executive. You will be joining our small but mighty South Africa team, we are focused on our users and rapidly scaling our business and we need you to support this big vision. You will be supporting our Business Development Manager with the success of our products and partners and the growth of our marketplace. We currently have 14 key partners, and we have big plans to increase this product and partner offering for our users.

This is an exciting opportunity for a junior to get involved early with a fast growing Fintech company that encourages constant learning and development on the job. You will be part of a core team driving our success in the South African market and delivering a great marketplace experience for our over 3 million users. You will be mentored by our BDM to grow over time to manage partner relationships, own your own product verticals and drive new business opportunities from pitch to go live.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of our commercial strategy within our core product verticals; cards and loans

• Work with the team to explore new business ideas and improve existing monetisation channels

• Drive improvements and commercial initiatives through our partner networks to the benefit of our users and marketplace experience

• Work within our platform’s rich data to derive key business and new initiative insights, produce performance reports and spot trends

• Learning, communicating and then owning partner reporting, looking at performance of products and partners and forecasting future revenue growth

• Support commercial CRM initiatives and exclusive campaigns with our marketing team

Requirements

• Passion to learn, coupled with an entrepreneurial spirit and a can-do attitude

• Proficiency to work with Microsoft Excel for reporting and data insights

• Previous experience in any of the following would be a benefit:

• • A business focused and client facing environment, such as sales, relationship/ partner/ account management

  • Relevant work in a consumer finance, fintech or B2B tech company or a keen interest in this industry and its impact on the broader market

Benefits

• Performance based bonus

• 20 paid holidays and a “duvet day” on your birthday

• Medical Aid with Discovery health

• Free sports and social clubs

• Generous training allowance

• Fast progression

• Leadership-led training

• Regular wellbeing events

• Brown bags with guest speakers

• In-house psychotherapist

• No clock-watching culture

• Generous maternity and paternity plans

• Culture and inclusion representatives

• We have transformed our benefits to the virtual world so we can still feel our CS culture remotely!