Field Sales Executive

Job Title

Please note that this role will be exclusively working in the field visiting your customers - Monday to Friday

Do you have a passion for technology, experience of selling solutions to SME retail and or hospitality businesses in the Newcastle region and looking for an opportunity to work with one of Europe's technology leading solution providers within the payments industry?

Why Viva Wallet?

Viva.com is the first Tech Bank in Europe for businesses, serving 29 countries through its pan-European critical infrastructure for payments & banking services.

Viva.com's offering spans across omnichannel payment acceptance, deposit accounts, card issuing, and a broad suite of financing solutions - including working capital and advance booking financing - alongside fiscalisation services, giving businesses across all verticals access to the tools they need to run their operations efficiently, on a single integrated platform.

Viva.com pioneered and leads in Tap on Any Device technology, enabling acceptance on any Android device or iPhone, while connecting directly to all major international and local card schemes, local payment systems, and alternative payment methods across Europe. Viva Wallet.com Limited - Viva.com's UK subsidiary - is an Electronic-money institution licensed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA FRN 989273) for the provision of E-money and related services within the United Kingdom?

Learn more at viva.com

What you will do:

As a member of the Client Acquisition Team in viva.com, you will both self generate business opportunities and convert provided sales leads into customer appointments through to closing sales for payment card terminals and related merchant acquiring services through digital and face to face contact with new clients. You will be providing a first-class face-to-face service in the field, aligned to customer needs and acting as a trusted partner in a defined geographical region.

More specifically, as a SMB Sales Executive, you will:

• Arrange business meetings with prospective clients, through self generated activities and sales leads provided to you;
• Evaluate data and information about the prospect, build rapport and business relationship by visiting and in person validating the prospect current needs in relation to viva.com offerings.
• Always strive to maximize reach by obtaining referrals from existing client base;
• Opportunistically looking for new sales opportunities through networking, digital prospection and customer / area canvassing;
• Make a positive and compelling presentation of the products / services driven by your in depth understanding of the market and the product / services features / advantages for the specific prospect;
• Close by selling viva.com products / services;
• Enter and update customer data / other useful information in the CRM system;
• Undertake all relevant training and refresh training as relevant to your role;
• Promote a team spirit and be able to learn from your colleagues;