Safaricom M-Pesa Africa – Executive Head of Business Payments Jobs in Kenya
About M-Pesa Africa
At M-Pesa Africa, we’re the heroes that make things happen.
We are a united, energetic and passionate team. A place where leaders coach, teams connect, and everyone is empowered to go further, faster. A place where heroes become superheroes; through growth, opportunity, and the chance to work with the best minds in FinTech.
We are Africa’s largest FinTech providing services to more than 60 million customers and 5 million businesses solutions across Financial Services, Enterprise, Merchant and Retail. We are now well on our way to becoming the preferred digital payment method across the markets that we serve, for both in-store, remote and online payments. With headquarters in both Nairobi and Johannesburg, we serve markets that include Kenya, Tanzania, DRC, Lesotho, Ghana, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Mozambique.
About the Role
As the leader of the Business Payments Unit (BPU), you will be driving the Business Payments and Acquisition strategy for M-Pesa Africa. You will be responsible for the overall BPU product development roadmap and the roll out of solutions across all the M-Pesa Africa markets.
You will play a pivotal role in enabling over 60 million customers to pay for goods and services with M-Pesa, and in growing the base of businesses that accept and use M-Pesa in their operations.
Responsibilities
Lead the BPU strategy and team development
Develop and update the overall strategy in close collaboration with the markets and senior management
Ensure buy-in from senior managements and market heads
Translate the strategy into key partnerships, products and initiatives
Build and lead the team to successfully achieve the set-out targets
Driving growth in Enterprise account penetration and usage across collections and disbursements use cases.
Managing Local Payments
Expand Merchant Acquisition, especially outside of Kenya, through the development of compelling value propositions such as mini-apps, Financial Services and other VAS;
Growing the penetration of the “Lipa” (Pay by M-Pesa) use case within the customer base, focusing on in-store payment and online payments;
Driving online acceptance of M-Pesa as a payment method, both with global merchants as well with local online merchants;
Rolling out digital product such as the Merchant app, Portal, Open APIs, and others across all our markets;
Managing the road map to make M-pesa a universal payment player by rolling out the Payment as a Service strategy across all markets;
Building the Developer ecosystem to ensure that M-Pesa becomes the Dominant Fintech ecosystem in Africa.
Managing Global Payments
Enable open API capabilities and Features to enable M-Pesa consumers to make payments to global merchant via M-Pesa App and USSD from their M-Pesa wallet;
Lead the recruitment and negotiations of partnerships with global Merchants, global PSPs, and Leading Payment solution providers to integrate M-Pesa payment capabilities as a check out option;
Deliver Key strategic partnership objective with Visa, PayPal, Microsoft and other players;
Enable M-pesa users to access technology to make payments anywhere in the world including Tokenization, AI, Digital Wallets, Virtual Cards, Tap to Pay, blockchain;
Drive Innovation on new payment capabilities and value added services to m-Pesa payments Globally.
Partnership Management
Manage strategic partnerships with key payment and technology companies across the world;
Develop and maintain relationships with vendors, suppliers, contractors, and other third parties to ensure that both sides are getting what they need from the relationship;
Identify new partnership opportunities and develop proposals outlining how a partnership could benefit both parties;
Negotiate terms of the agreement and ensure compliance with legal requirements;
Manage the operationalization of the partnerships to ensure effective communication and collaboration.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree required, a Master’s degree in a related field preferred;
An upwards of 10 years of professional experience with at least 5 years in digital payments and acquiring merchants
Passion for, and commitment to driving mobile money growth and innovation
Extensive experience leading commercial teams
Expertise in developing partnerships with third parties
Experience leading product roadmaps and working in agile squads on product development
International experience and multicultural sensitivity
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; Safaricom M-Pesa Africa – Executive Head of Business Payments Jobs in Kenya
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