{"id":18083,"date":"2025-09-03T08:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T08:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/job\/business-development-associate\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T00:25:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T00:25:48","slug":"business-development-associate","status":"expired","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/?post_type=job_listing&p=18083","title":{"rendered":"Business Development Associate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a passionate salesperson and enjoy being part of a great team? Are you ready to unleash your potential in a global business that is committed to moving money for better? Join the Western Union team as a Business Development Associate.<br \/>\n\tWe want you to be successful and meet your sales goals by managing a portfolio of agents and increasing their sales.<\/p>\n<p>Role Responsibilities<\/p>\n<p>\tYou will support and supervise the activation of the agent (retail and\/or digital).<br \/>\n\tYou will be responsible for the life cycle of the agent in its territory.<br \/>\n\tYou will oversee the productivity of the points of sale, whether they are old or new, that is, ensure that they generate the transactions for the business.<br \/>\n\tYou\u2019ll also be selling Western Union cross-border money movement solutions to Fintech\u2019s, Payment Operators, Aggregators, Mobile Networks and Mid-tier regional and global Financial Institutions (FI).\u00a0<br \/>\n\tWe\u2019ll look upon you to significantly drive the number and success of 3rd Party Partnerships\u2019 long-term revenue.\u00a0<br \/>\n\tYou\u2019ll use your management skills to collaborate with WU sales leaders to develop holistic WU market execution plans for regional sales whilst successfully signing, implementing, and retaining clients with the most significant customer base in key markets.<\/p>\n<p>Role Requirements<\/p>\n<p>\t4 or more years of client-facing sales experience and customer service in a multicultural environment.<br \/>\n\tknowledge of global payments and money movement ecosystems.<br \/>\n\tBachelor\u2019s degree in business administration or marketing.<br \/>\n\tstrong decision-making skills.<br \/>\n\tGoof interpersonal skills to negotiate, present, and listen to your agents and build trust and confidence with them while you are reporting your strategy<br \/>\n\tThis role may require travel within the region. Fluency in English is required, and a good level of French or Portuguese fluency is advantageous.<\/p>\n<p>Apply via company website (  ) or<\/p>\n<p>.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_promoted":"","_job_location":"","_application":"http:\/\/.com","_company_name":"Western Union","_company_website":"","_company_tagline":"","_company_twitter":"","_company_video":"","_filled":0,"_featured":0,"_remote_position":0,"_job_salary":"","_job_salary_currency":"","_job_salary_unit":""},"job_listing_region":[11],"job-types":[12],"class_list":["post-18083","job_listing","type-job_listing","status-expired","hentry","job_listing_region-gauteng","job-type-full-time"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings\/18083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/job_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_region?post=18083"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/southafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-types?post=18083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}