At PPRO, our mission is to simplify access to local payment methods and our vision is to enable the sale of goods and services to anyone in the world using their preferred way to pay. We empower partners such as Ant Group, PayPal and Stripe to access new markets, connect with more customers, and accelerate their growth.
Our strength lies in our diverse global team with 50+ nationalities and 10+ international locations- all united around one goal – to deliver the best possible products and services to our partners and customers. While our company mission is to keep innovating global commerce, our internal mission is to #chooseaction, #beopen, #thinkcustomer, #gofurther and #wintogether
The Purpose:
Your Impact in This Role:
- Drive Results with Urgency: Act with a fierce sense of urgency to accelerate the sales cycle. You will take absolute accountability for your individual outcomes, successfully managing the full sales cycle from prospecting to converting new Payment Service Provider (PSP), gateway, acquirer/processor, and enterprise merchant contracts
- Uncompromising Accountability: Independently manage your pipeline and drive product adoption and ongoing innovation, maintaining an uncompromising standard of accountability and proactive initiative
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate extensively with the Sales Engineering team to effortlessly onboard new clients, and partner with Client Success and Marketing teams to deliver customer training and activation sessions without delays
- Relationship Building & Trust: Make connections with key influencers and decision-makers to drive immediate and long-term opportunities, and develop strategic customer plans for the efficient handover of accounts to Account Management teams
What Would Make You a Great Fit:
- Urgency, Accountability & Ownership: A very strong sense of urgency is an absolute requirement for this role. You possess an unwavering strong sense of ownership and accountability, demonstrating the ability to maintain high levels of productivity, velocity, and focus with minimal supervision in an individual contributor capacity
- Experience & Track Record: A minimum of 5 years of payments experience in Sales and/or Business Development roles, with a proven record of high performance, consistently achieving outstanding results and delivering against targeted revenue metrics in a fast-paced environment
- Deep Industry Knowledge: A comprehensive understanding of the FinTech payments space—a broad view of how and where our solutions fit within the ecosystem, and how that is strategically important to our future positioning with PSPs and enterprise merchants
- Strategic & Analytical Acumen: Strong commercial, analytical, and quantitative skills are essential, with the ability to leverage data and analytics to drive actions, back up assumptions, suggestions, and swiftly optimize your sales approach
- Strong Communicator & Influencer: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the strong influencing skills to confidently engage diverse stakeholders, including technical teams, marketing, and C-level executives. You thrive in international environments, customizing your messaging based on the audience, and easily connecting with people from diverse backgrounds and cultures. Additional European language skills would be an advantage
What's in it for you ?:
Hybrid working - We offer a hybrid structure with a 3 days / week on site expectation, so you can strike the balance between office and home working. In addition to our 28-day holiday allowance, we also provide a work from abroad policy, enabling employees to work remotely for up to another 30 days per year
Learning and Development - We offer a GBP 500 annual budget to support your professional growth—because investing in your development benefits us all. In addition, we provide leadership cafés, on-the-job training, and other opportunities to help you grow your skills and thrive in your role.
Insurance - Because better safe than sorry - we want our employees to benefit from various insurances including a medical insurance (BUPA health care plan) and a 5% matching pension plan through Now Pensions.
Enhance Family Leave - We understand the importance of family - that's why we offer enhanced family leave to support you during key life moments.
Workplace Nursery Scheme - Save on childcare through salary exchange
Gym membership - PPRO helps contribute towards the costs of your gym membership, supporting your physical fitness journey while easing the burden on your wallet
Mental Health Platform - We’ve teamed up with a top well-being platform to provide one-on-one therapy, chat therapy, therapist-led courses, guided meditations, and more.
Our HQ office on Procter Street, is a short walk from Holborn, Farringdon and Covent Garden so if you’re a foodie there’s plenty nearby. The office is befitting a tech business and is set up for cross team collaboration.
Pet-friendly office- Because work is better with your paw-tners by your side
Our Principles:
We get things done: We are courageous; we take ownership, make decisions and get things done.
We act with trust and integrity: We listen first and challenge respectfully. We seek out and leverage diverse perspectives. We welcome and offer honest and open feedback, always assuming positive intent
We put the customer first: We are laser focused on delivering outstanding outcomes for our customers. We put the customer at the heart of what we do.
We make things better: We boldly explore new ideas and have an unwavering commitment to continuous improvement.
We work as a team: We collaborate closely and value team success over individual achievement.
