Sales Support/Director to Director

2 weeks ago


Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom And Zopa Limited Full time

This is a fabulous opportunity to shape and achieve a step change in growth of a well-established business, that has the backing of a well-resourced parent.

DivideBuy was acquired by Zopa in April 23 as a future growth engine.
DivideBuy offers interest free and interest bearing credit at point of sale (POS) to consumers. Zopa has and will continue to invest in the business, having strengthened its technical, risk, product and credit functions. So all the pieces are in place to accelerate growth. Your role is to take the business from £85m to £500m over the next three years.

The Sales Director will run the business development function as well as being an integral part of the POS leadership team.

It is a critical role with a with a wide-ranging remit to improve the marketing and sales activities in order to grow the revenue and profitability of the business.

The role requires strategic drive, superb people skills, understanding of operating in a regulated environment and product development.

You will be responsible for a team of c20 people including: new business sales, account management and B2B marketing.

You will also steer developing product strategies with the product and development departments.
A day in the life:
Development of the sales strategy; key sectors to enter, type of merchants to target, implementing a robust and consistent sales methodology
Partnership strategy; identification of, qualification of and relationship building with key strategic partners
Pipeline management; expanding the existing new business pipeline, enhancing the qualification process, identifying margin opportunities
Inspiring the sales team to achieve ambitious and stretching targets
Retaining, developing and strengthening our relationships with our current merchants
Upselling interest bearing and longer term interest free credit to merchants within the portfolio
Collaborating with the credit function to optimise merchant profitability
Lead generation for the new business team
Increasing B2B brand awareness
Leveraging the Zopa brand; collaborating with the Zopa marketing and PR function
Establishing a clear go to market product feature strategy
Building a fully qualified pipeline that underpins that product feature strategy
Joint working with the product function
Judicious prioritisation of new product features that optimises return on development effort

About you:
Demonstratable experience in a senior business development role managing multiple teams
Inspiration leadership
Excellent people skills
Demonstrated strategic leadership
Operated in a regulated environment
Led teams to achieve significant growth

Bonus points for:
~ Point of sale, BNPL, or lending experience

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