Inside Sales Consultant at Paga Nigeria

Paga is a licensed financial services company and a leading payments company in Nigeria with a massive transformative purpose - to make it simple for one billion people to access and use money. It was founded on the simple belief that the ubiquity of mobile phones can be leveraged in building an ecosystem that enables people to digitally send and receive money and creating simple financial access for everyone.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Inside Sales Consultant

Location: Yaba, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-Time
Sector: Financial Institution
Reports To: Inside Sales Manager, Lagos Region

About the Role

• The Inside Sales Consultant (ISC) is responsible for managing the existing agents, reactivating inactive agents, growing the agent network base, and boosting revenue via various telemarketing skills.
• Furthermore, the ideal candidate must be able to converts pre-qualified sales leads, generate new businesses, and use upselling tactics to secure the best possible deal and follow up with agents to ensure an excellent customer service experience.
• have experience in carrying a sales target, close sales and meet targets.

Primary Responsibilites

• Make calls to agents to check their activities, address their needs, complaints, or other issues with products or services.
• Respond efficiently and accurately to agents, explaining possible solutions, and ensuring that the agents feel supported and valued.
• Engage in active listening with agents, confirming or clarifying information and diffusing angry agent as needed.
• Build lasting relationships with agents based on trust and reliability.
• Utilize software, database, script, and tools appropriately to achieve results
• Understand and strive to meet  and exceed Inside sales call metrics while providing excellent and consistent customer service.
• Make sales or recommendations for products or services that may better suit agent needs.
• Take part in training and other learning opportunities to expand knowledge of the company and position.
• Adhere to all company policies and procedures by maintaining records of the telephonic communications and interactions using the available tools/applications.

Knowledge and Skills Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university or college.
• 2 - 3 years’ experience in FMCG sales
• Must be proficient with Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.
• Excellent use of Freshdesk & Xcally tools.
• Must be proficient with Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.
• Must be able to understand and report issues appropriately.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Provide outstanding customer service.

Key Competencies:

• Strong leadership skills.
• Strong interpersonal/communication skills.
• Takes initiative and ownership.
• Must be self-driven and excited about winning.
• Detail oriented.
• Flexible: willingness to test ideas quickly and take learnings
• Good interpersonal skills.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.