Sales Manager

At PPRO, our mission is to simplify access to local payment methods and our vision is to enable the sale of goods and services to anyone in the world using their preferred way to pay. We empower partners such as Ant Group, Pay Pal and Stripe to access new markets, connect with more customers, and accelerate their growth.

Our strength lies in our diverse global team with 50+ nationalities and 10+ international locations— all united around one goal – to deliver the best possible products and services to our partners and customers. While our company mission is to keep innovating global commerce, our internal mission is to #choose action, #beopen, #think customer, #gofurther and #win together.

Join our dynamic team in London and take on the role of a North American‑focused Sales Manager, where you will play a pivotal role in our fintech scale‑up's growth story. As part of our US commercial team, you'll have the opportunity to source leads, build valuable relationships, and convert exciting opportunities across North America with some of the world's largest and best‑known players.

In this individual contributor role, you will independently manage your pipeline, achieve revenue targets, drive product adoption, and contribute to ongoing innovation. Your responsibilities include identifying, prospecting, and establishing opportunities with large global financial service providers and enterprise merchants.

We are expecting individuals in this role to work three days per week aligned with US time zones, from 12 PM to 8 PM.

• Responsible for closing new Payment Service Provider (PSP) contracts or Enterprise Merchant contracts
• Manage the full sales cycle from prospecting to converting PSP, gateway, or acquirer/processor opportunities, and aid in their growth and development
• Achieve new business targets, share‑of‑wallet growth, profit, and customer satisfaction
• Work with the Sales Engineering team to effortlessly onboard new clients
• Partner with the client success and partner marketing teams to deliver customer training and activation sessions
• Develop customer plans for efficient handover of accounts to Account Management teams
• Make connections with influencers and decision makers that will lead to opportunities in the short and long term, while building and maintaining trust

• A minimum of 5 years payments experience in Sales and or Business Development roles
• Knowledge of the Fin Tech payments space - A broad view of how and where PPRO fits within the payments ecosystem and how that is strategically important to PPRO’s future positioning
• Proven record of high performance, achieving outstanding results and delivering against targeted revenue results
• Strong commercial, analytical, and quantitative skills are essential, and the ability to leverage data and analytics to back up assumptions, suggestions, and drive actions
• Strong sense of ownership and demonstrated ability to maintain high levels of productivity with minimal supervision
• Have strong influencing skills and be comfortable engaging with different types of customers including technical, C‑level, marketing team and customising messaging based on the audience
• Excellent communication skills:
  You thrive in international environments and can connect with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures

• Hybrid working – We offer a hybrid structure with a 3 days / week on site expectation, so you can strike the balance between office and home working. In addition to our 28‑day holiday allowance, we also provide a work from abroad policy, enabling employees to work remotely for up to another 30 days per year
• Learning and Development – We offer a GBP 500 annual budget to support your professional growth—because investing in your development benefits us all. In addition, we provide leadership cafés, on‑the‑job training, and other opportunities to help you grow your skills and thrive in your role.
• Insurance – Because better safe than sorry - we want our employees to benefit from various insurances including a medical insurance (BUPA health care plan) and a 5% matching pension plan through Now…