State Head

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Lagos, Lagos Island, Lagos
Senior level
Fintech • Payments • Financial Services
The Role
The State Head is responsible for driving regional growth strategies, expanding the client network, and ensuring market dominance in retail services. They will lead a high-performance sales team, manage relationships within the agricultural value chain, monitor performance, ensure compliance with regulations, and motivate staff to achieve corporate objectives.
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About the company

FairMoney is a pioneering mobile banking institution specializing in extending credit to emerging markets. Established in 2017, the company currently operates primarily within Nigeria, and it has secured nearly €50 million in funding from renowned global investors, including Tiger Global, DST, and Flourish Ventures. FairMoney maintains a strong international presence, with offices in several countries, including France, Nigeria, Germany, Latvia, the UK, Türkiye, and India.

In alignment with its vision, FairMoney is actively constructing the foremost mobile banking platform and point-of-sale (POS) solution tailored for emerging markets. The journey began with the introduction of a digital microcredit application exclusively available on Android and iOS devices. Today, FairMoney has significantly expanded its range of services, encompassing a comprehensive suite of financial products, such as current accounts, savings accounts, debit cards, and state-of-the-art POS solutions designed to meet the needs of both merchants and agents.

To gain deeper insights into FairMoney's pivotal role in reshaping Africa's financial landscape, we invite you to watch  informative video.

About the Role:
As the State Head (Aggregator Network), you are the CEO of the region, responsible for regional performance and individual state under purview.
You must be self-driven, result oriented and most importantly – An A player. You are primarily responsible for shaping and driving your region’s growth strategy to correctly position it within landscape in Nigeria by working with the Head of Retail Banking in cementing the FairMoney strategy of becoming the largest neobank in Nigeria.

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Source for new clients and expand client network in the retail marketplace (Agents and consumers).
  • Develop and maintain market dominance by ensuring acquisition, retention and Month on Month growth in acquisition and loan conversion in market segment.
  • Drive corporate strategy in Schools, Markets, Partnerships with OFIs/Super Agents/ Aggregators and Agricultural value chain.
  • Sign up and maintain relationship with value chain actors.
  • Monitor regional performance, staff and consumer behavior and provide market intelligence to the team.
  • Proper Branding and training of Agents/Consumers and partners.
  • Comply with rules, regulations and legislation governing the financial services industry.
  • Motivate, mentor and supervise regional staff for delivery of FairMoney corporate objective.
  • Consistently deliver monthly OKR.
  • Any other responsibility as may be assigned by the Head of Retail Banking.
Requirements
  • A Bachelor's degree in any relevant discipline
  • A minimum of 6 - 8 years of experience in the Agency Banking business.
  • Must have an android phone.
  • Proven experience managing a high performance sales team.
  • Ability to motivate a team of Sales Managers for performance.
  • Extremely flexible, result oriented, hardworking with a strong track record of success.
  • Ability to self-motivate and manage self.
  • Good communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Customer orientation and ability to adapt/respond to different characters.
Benefits
  • Private Health Insurance
  • Pension Plan
  • Paid Time Off
  • Work From Home
  • Training & Development
  • Performance Bonus

Recruitment Process:

  • A screening call with the Senior Recruiter ~30 minutes
  • Technical interview with the Hiring Manager ~30 minutes
  • An executive interview with Senior Executives

The Company
Bengaluru, Karnataka
923 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

FairMoney is building the leading mobile bank for emerging markets. Our goal is to rebuild Africa's money story by offering Tier 1 digital financial services to merchants and consumers alike.

In our key market; Nigeria, FairMoney is currently the Most downloaded fintech app in Nigeria with over 10 million downloads and the #1 digital bank in Nigeria.

FairMoney offers a range of digital financial products including, near-instant digital loans 24/7, investment products, savings, payments, and cards directly via its mobile app.
We give 10,000 loans daily (one every 8 seconds!) in Nigeria and India, and have banking operations in Nigeria, with over 6 million users.

We're backed by international investors and have raised a total of $89.9M in funding, to support our development.

FairMoney is unique thanks to its international exposure (with offices on 3 continents) and its impact-driven mission: we bring financial inclusion to underbanked people in emerging markets!

We are a team of close to 600 people, and for most of the positions, it's possible to join FairMoney remotely or in one of our offices: in Paris, Bangalore, Lagos, and Riga.

We value candidates who embrace our company values:
• Growth Mindset – We believe in the power of a Growth Mindset, not fixed or static.
• Big Plans, Bigger Ambitions - We make big plans, and have even Bigger Ambitions. We are here to build massive scale and drive the fintech revolution across Africa.
• Talent has no passport - We believe that Talent Has No Passport. While opportunity may not be evenly distributed across the world, talent is.
• Start with the Client – We Empathize with our users to optimize our impact. Many of us don’t live where our customers do - we must go in-depth to understand their pain points.

Discover our other values during your discussions with the team.

https://apply.workable.com/fairmoney/?lng=en

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