Global Placers are hiring a Regional Sales Manager (Abuja & Kano)


Global Placers are hiring a Regional Sales Manager (Abuja & Kano)


Job Description

  • My client is seeking a Regional Sales Manager To lead the commercial, operational, and people turnaround, transforming it into a stable, high-quality, and profitable growth engine.

Job Responsibilities

Regional Turnaround & Strategic Leadership

Diagnose and resolve legacy portfolios, processes, and people issues across the region.

  • Develop and execute a 6–12 month regional growth plan aligned with the client's portfolio scaling mandate.
  • Rebuild operational discipline, accountability, and execution consistency across Kano and Abuja.
  • Ensure field teams operate with territorial discipline, owning their catchment areas, maximizing value within them, and avoiding low-effort, low-yield activity.
  • Own and enforce regional KPIs across growth, utilization, repayment, and loss rates.

Customer Acquisition & Market Rebuild

  • Reset the acquisition strategy to prioritize merchant quality, utilization readiness, and repayment capacity over volume.
  • Drive the team to focus on high-value merchants, identifying, acquiring, and managing them with the discipline they require.
  • Lead merchant acquisition through: Direct field sales and territory coverage, Ecosystem and distributor partnerships, Trade association and market leadership engagement
  • Ensure all acquisition activity aligns strictly with the client's underwriting standards and vertical focus.

Revenue & Unit Economics Ownership

Drive sustainable revenue growth, not headline loan book inflation.

  • Improve utilization rates across qualified merchants.
  • Ensure regional growth meets profitability and CAC payback expectations.
  • Own and manage the regional budget with clear ROI accountability.

Team Leadership, Capability & Culture Reset

Assess, restructure, and rebuild the North Region Growth team where required.

  • Recruit, coach, and retain high-integrity, high-discipline Growth Officers.
  • Set clear performance expectations tied to healthy growth outcomes, not raw activity metrics.
  • Conduct regular performance reviews, field coaching sessions, and corrective interventions.
  • Instill a culture of Portfolio ownership and personal accountability, Data-driven decision-making, Respect for process and risk governance

Compliance, Risk & Fraud Management

Ensure full compliance with Shara policies and regulatory standards.

  • Perform IC Level 0 underwriting and AM KYC related tasks
  • Enforce zero tolerance for Process shortcuts, Business staging, Fraud, Malpractice and Sharp practices.
  • Partner with Risk and Compliance teams to strengthen regional controls.

Portfolio Health & Credit Discipline

Own portfolio quality in the region by ensuring strict adherence to Credit eligibility rules, Limit sizing logic and utilisation readiness.

  • Proactively identify early risk signals and intervene before 30 DPD.
  • Work closely with Credit Risk and Collections on Delinquency management, Restructuring decisions and Recovery escalations
  • Eliminate repeat patterns of poor quality resizes and avoidable defaults.

Reporting & Executive Communication

  • Provide clear, honest, and data backed reports on Portfolio performance, Growth quality, Risk trends, Operational bottlenecks
  • Escalate issues early with scoped out problem statements and proposed solutions
  • Serve as the single point of accountability for West Region outcomes.

Requirements & Qualifications

  • You have at least five to eight years of work experience

Required Skills

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
  • Minimum 7 years experience in sales, growth, or commercial leadership.
  • At least 3 years in a regional or mul

Benefits:

  • Good working environment 
  • Competitive salary

Deadline: Jul 17 2026

How to Apply 

Interested Applicants can apply via this link 

Apply Now 

إرسال تعليق