Head of Sales - Egypt, Amazon Payment Services

Basic Qualifications
* Native Arabic Speaker
* ‎10+ years of total work experience with ‎5+ years of leadership roles in E-commerce, Digital Payments, Digital transformation domain
* Experienced people leader with the ability to develop and mentor talent within a country Sales/Account Management and Business Development organization
* Bachelor's degree in a business or in a technical discipline
* Passionate about digital payments, e-commerce and sales
* Experience defining, negotiating and closing complex relationship, including agreements
* Ability to create and implement a strategic vision
* Ability to handle the day-to-day management of tasks and resolution of problems
* Proven analytical skills and quantitative skills with ability to manage the business by the numbers
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English and Arabic mandatory)
* Cultural awareness as well as the ability to work effectively across functions (finance, marketing, sales operations, legal etc.)
* Motivation to drive the business, proactive attitude and willingness to roll up sleeves to achieve goals

As digital payments evolve in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA),
organizations are going through digital transformation and looking for
simpler, safer, and affordable ways to process payments, coupled with a change
in consumer behavior in favor of paying for products and services online. The
future of payments continues to be digital with double-digit growth across
different sectors such as e-commerce, travel, government, insurance,
entertainment. Amazon Payment Services (formerly PAYFORT) is at the forefront
of innovation, reimaging payments in the MENA region. Learn more about Amazon
Payment services here https://paymentservices.amazon.com/

At Amazon, we have a long history of providing innovative services for
businesses. With Amazon Payment Services, we empower merchants to build
trusted, simple, and affordable payment experiences to help them solve many
challenges such as increasing electronic payment coverage, increasing
purchasing power at checkout, mitigating transactional risks, and offer
payment insights via different integration end-points: APIs, Mobile SDKs, and
third plugins such as shopping carts and booking engines.

Egypt is at the epicenter of digital transformation and Amazon Payment
Services is committed to support the country's vision in digitizing the
economy. To lead this charter, we are seeking a seasoned sales leader to lead
our sales motion in Egypt who will be responsible for defining and executing
the go-to-market strategy in the country. This leadership role also owns
liaising with the eco-system entities like financial institutions, regulatory
bodies and the ministries.

The Head of Sales role in Egypt will drive growth from recruiting new
merchants and developing existing merchants. In this leadership role, you will
work closely with teams such as Product, Marketing, Integrations & Support,
and Go-to-Market to improve merchant experience and increase the use of our
service offering. You will lead a team of Business Development Managers with
an opportunity to grow. Your main goals will be the launch of directly
recruited merchants as well as the total payment volume generated both from
new and existing merchants. Key responsibilities include the creation of new
and powerful value propositions for merchants. Operating in a fast-moving and
challenging environment, Amazon's culture requires that you are self-motivated
and target driven, able to work autonomously and take full control and
responsibility for merchant recruiting and account management targets.

The position is based in Cairo, Egypt.

Key competencies:

‎1. Business Development/Relationship Management: Demonstrated history of
successful business development capabilities and using data to identify and
prioritize opportunities. Simultaneously, a solid understanding of and passion
for the payments landscape and ability to lead the team in developing launch
strategies. Create audit mechanisms to help the team to deliver new money
goal, retain merchant base, and ensure high merchant satisfaction.

‎2. Thought Leadership: Lead the organization in establishing thought
leadership with various stakeholders from Financial Regulators & Central Banks
around the region through various cadences and mechanisms in partnership with
Amazon Public Policy & Legal teams.

‎3. Regulatory Compliance: This role will also liaise with partnership team in
the process of applying and obtaining required licenses for new business lines
when required.

‎4. Hire and develop the best: Will be tasked with managing and developing a
high-performance team of Business Developers. Will lead recruitment and career
development efforts of staff in Egypt.

Key Responsibilities:
* Financial targets for total payment volume, revenue, gross margin, and contribution profit in the country
* Launches of directly recruited merchants, primarily in the enterprise and mid-market segments
* Growth and retention of existing merchants, particularly by driving feature and new product adoption as well as ensuring optimized integration of Amazon Payment Services
* Close collaboration with global stakeholders across the entire Amazon Payment Services organization
* Development of key metrics to measure overall business and financial performance and provide the foundation for continuous improvement
* Management of a high-performance organization capable of scaling with the growth of the business, and exemplifying the values of Amazon
* Representation of your team and region in the Amazon Payment Services Leadership Team to contribute to the definition of the long- term strategy, three-year plans, and annual operating plans, providing insightful understanding of the needs, habits and preferences of customers, solution providers, and other internal stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications
* MBA or Technical degree from tier ‎1 institutions
* Background in payments/Fintech or Consumer Finance businesses and relevant experience in B2B2C businesses
* Experience working in a global, 24x7 support environment
* Owner mentality; willingness to roll up sleeves to meet goals
* Ability to juggle multiple competing priorities and create a sense of urgency in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
* Able to work in a diverse team
* Ability to identify, pursue and implement business opportunities with a focus on the customer, from both a strategic and operational perspective