Sales Representative

Payjoy; Johannesburg; On-site; USD 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the telecommunications sector is seeking a Sales Representative based in Johannesburg. The role involves overseeing sales deployment, maintaining partner relationships, and achieving sales targets. Ideal candidates will have a degree in business, strong interpersonal skills, and relevant experience in sales or customer service.

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience in Customer Service, Software Sales, or telecommunications.
• Strong orientation to results; proactive and organized.

Responsibilities

• Lead sales deployment and maintain compliance with sales goals.
• Develop relationships with merchants and train sales teams.
• Identify new business partners and generate sales strategies.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Negotiation skills

Problem-solving

Education

Graduate in Business Administration, Marketing or Finance

Job description

Job Location : Gauteng, Johannesburg Deadline : July 18, 2025 Quick Recommended Links

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This role

• The sales representative will be responsible for the overseeing of each speciality sales deployment falling within their designated geography. Once the sales deployment is completed, the sales representative will ensure marketing elements and required tools are provided and displayed in a manner that fits the required standards to not only drive the required sales, but also service customers to the required levels. This responsibility will be ongoing either through maintenance of existing, but also executing on new sales deployment activity requirements.
• The above will provide the foundation for the all important priority of increasing PayJoy originations and integration of new partners in the country, building and maintaining strong relationships with partner retailers and distributors; through visiting stores to provide support, ongoing training, implementation of incentive campaigns and targeted marketing; in order to ensure compliance and exceeding sales and productivity objectives.

Responsibilities

• Sales deployment and ongoing maintenance, ensuring absolute alignment to PayJoy’s best practice framework
• Achieve compliance with the assigned monthly sales and deployment activation goal in the area under your responsibility, increasing productivity, market share and generating new opportunities not necessarily related to the point of sale.
• Develop the relationship with merchants to keep the account of existing members healthy / stable, responding to requests and solving problems in the conversion to final customer with the PayJoy platform.
• Visit deployment touch points to train sales teams, promote marketing materials, and activate incentive campaigns.
• Generate strategies to increase sales in the assigned area, including market and competition analysis to identify trends and sales opportunities.
• Identify and contact new business partners, ensuring they meet the requirements and activating them once authorized.
• Keep the customer database updated and record all interactions and sales made. Prepare sales reports and performance analysis for management.

Requirements

• Graduate in Business Administration, Marketing or Finance.
• 1-2 years of experience in Customer Service, Software Sales, mobile devices or Field, in the telecommunications industry.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills to establish effective relationships and train business partner personnel.
• Orientation to results, so proactivity, organization, perseverance and resilience are essential attributes.
• To ensure success, you need to have strong analytical and negotiation skills as you will be in charge of store performance and sales.
• Availability to travel to visit stores, you must have your own car to cover assigned areas.
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