Director – Business Development (German Speaker)

 

Nium, the global leader in real-time, cross-border payments, was founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. With the onset of the global economy, its payments infrastructure is shaping how banks, fintechs, and businesses everywhere collect, convert, and disburse funds instantly across borders.  

Its payout network supports 100 currencies and spans 220+ markets, 100 of which in real-time. Funds can be disbursed to accounts, wallets, and cards and collected locally in 35 markets. Nium's growing card issuance business is already available in 34 countries. Nium holds regulatory licenses and authorizations in more than 40 countries, enabling seamless onboarding, rapid integration, and compliance – independent of geography. The company is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore. 

Your primary responsibilities will be to acquire new clients across Europe for Nium Travel, more specifically the German Market and generate incremental revenues for the company. You will be spending a good amount of your energy understanding new clients, acquiring new clients, regularly analyzing the key clients’ business, operations and performance, and work with the management team and peers in other functional areas to leverage best practices and provide consistent high competent sales skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrate an entrepreneurial mindset and the highest degree of effectiveness across Nium’s market leading B2B issuing propositions
• Identify, secure, and manage relationships with travel clients across Europe, effectively negotiating and persuading potential clients the value that Nium can add to their business.
• Work into and effectively navigate the respective financial and fintech regulatory environment
• Strong track record in generating revenue from clients, and achieve pre-agreed targets on customer flows, revenues, and profitability.
• Demonstrate business development and consultative selling skills with results-orientation to meet/exceed assigned financial and customer satisfaction goals
• Pro-actively hunt for opportunities in the market through direct contact as well as channel and scheme partners. The job will involve building relationships with key players in the travel space including online travel agencies, travel aggregators, consolidators, bed banks, airlines and other relevant industry players to generate qualified opportunities, mapping the account, influencing key decision-makers, convincing the client about the value proposition and closing the deal.

Requirements

• A proven track record in Travel Payments Go-to-Market
• 5+ years of sales experience in Europe with consistent quote performance in a b2b environment
• A robust network of contacts and strong understanding of Nium offerings
• Commercially focussed and pragmatic, able to identify opportunities and propose solutions
• Ability to understand and tailor approach to individual customers with empathy, effectively playing the role of problem-solver for the customer
• Strong presentation skills
• Results – oriented, client focused and obsessed with simultaneously delivering value
• Self-motivated, adept in working individually and as part of a global team.
• German and English language is a must – an additional European language would be preferable.
• Willingness to travel

We Value Performance: Through competitive salaries, performance bonuses, sales commissions, equity for specific roles and recognition programs, we ensure that all our employees are well rewarded and incentivized for their hard work. 

We Care: The wellness of Nium’ers is our #1 priority. We offer medical coverage along with 24/7 employee assistance program, generous vacation programs including our year-end shut down. We also provide a flexible hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office). 

We Upskill Ourselves: We are curious, and always want to learn more with a focus on upskilling ourselves. We provide role-specific training, internal workshops, and a learning stipend. 

We Constantly Innovate: Since our inception, Nium has received constant recognition and awards for how we approach both our business and talent opportunities. Check out CNBC World’s Top Fintech Companies 2024.  

We Celebrate Together: We recognize that work is also about creating great relationships with each other. We celebrate together with company-wide social events, team bonding activities, happy hours, team offsites, and much more!  

We Thrive With Diversity: Nium is truly a global company, with more than 33 nationalities, based in 18+ countries and more than 10 office locations. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.  

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