Sales Representative - Western Cape

PayJoy; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Full time

Job summary

A financial technology company in Johannesburg seeks a Sales Representative to boost partner origination in assigned territories. Responsibilities include developing merchant relationships, training sales teams, and achieving sales targets. Ideal candidates will have 1-2 years in customer service or sales, strong communication skills, and the ability to travel. Benefits include health insurance, life insurance, and professional development perks.

Benefits

Health insurance

Life insurance

Pension fund

20 days of vacation

Co-working travel perk

Professional development perk

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience in Customer Service, Software Sales, telecommunications.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Availability to travel with personal transportation.

Responsibilities

• Increase monthly sales and store activation targets.
• Develop relationships with merchants and maintain account stability.
• Train sales teams and promote marketing materials.
• Identify and activate new business partners.
• Prepare sales reports for management.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Analytical skills

Negotiation skills

Communication skills

Proactivity

Organization

Perseverance

Resilience

Education

Technical or university studies in Business Administration

Job description

About PayJoy

PayJoy is a mission-first credit provider dedicated to helping under-served customers in emerging markets to achieve financial stability and success. Our patented technology for secured credit provides an on-ramp for new customers to enter the credit system. Through PayJoy’s point-of-sale financing and credit cards, customers gain access to a modern quality of life. PayJoy’s credit also allows our customers to seize opportunities as micro-entrepreneurs, and provide safety acts as insurance for tough times. Through our cutting-edge machine learning, data science, and anti-fraud AI, we have served over 17 million customers as of 2025 while achieving solid profitability for sustainable growth.

This role

The sales representative will be responsible for increasing the origination and integration of new partners in their assigned territory, building and maintaining strong relationships with all assigned partner retailers and their respective stakeholders; through constant field work (store visits) or through direct sales at kiosks to provide support, training, implementation of incentive campaigns and targeted marketing; in order to ensure compliance and exceeding sales and productivity objectives.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the monthly sales and store activation targets in the area under your responsibility are met by increasing merchant productivity, and overall company market share.
• Ensure that merchants who sold in the prior month are also selling in the current month.
• 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 stores 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

• Technical or university studies in related areas such as Business Administration, Communications or similar.
• 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 personal transportation to cover assigned areas. (Car or Motorcycle)

Benefits

• Health Insurance - Company funded for employee and immediate family. Capped at R9360.00
• Life insurance - Company funded
• Pension Fund
• Vacations 20 days
• Phone finance, Headphone, home office equipment and wellness perks.
• $2,000 USD annual Co-working Travel perk
• $2,000 USD annual Professional Development perk

PayJoy is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and we do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

PayJoy Principles

Finance for the next billion * Ownership * Break Through Walls * Live Communication * Transparency & Directness * Focus on Scale * Work-Life Balance * Embrace Diversity * Speed * Active Listening