Digital Sales Officer

Key Responsibilities:

• Facilitating first-contact meetings with potential KCB bank customers on digital channels.
• Searching, assessing, accepting, and processing prospect merchant and agent applications to become KCB customers.
• Conduct first time (activations) and routine trainings to approved merchants, agents, customers on mobile and internet banking, to ensure users can use the said services.
• Submission of all tools of trade which are provided by the bank to customers immediately after approval.
• Ensure merchants and agents premises are branded (both internally and externally) properly by approved bank standards to ensure visibility by both existing and prospect bank customers.
• Monitoring customer activities, ensure compliance to bank policies and procedures, and conduct periodic visits to their business places/premises (Relationship Management).
• Growth of customer turnover and NFI as per the agreed target
• Manage customer relationships and ensure complaints/disputes are sorted on time.
• Activation of dormant customers on mobile, internet and agency banking.
• Cross selling of other bank products.

Daily Responsibilities:

• New Business Development (50%)
• Recruit new quality business within the allocated market.
• Proactively create and develop business relationships with customers.
• Build close working relationships with Branch staff, SME and Corporate team to create business opportunities.
• Implement activities to deliver value added products and services at the merchant and agent location.
• Fully understand the workings of merchants, agent banking, internet banking and mobile banking operations and risk strategy.
• Customer contact (40%)
• Customer contact involves discussions and negotiations with customers on business and operational issues
• The role holder is responsible for managing and responding to customer requirements
• Establish, build and maintain ongoing relationships with customers to develop, sustain and protect agent business.
• Develop a deep understanding of the needs and requirements of customers’ businesses
• Make sound commercial judgments in order to retain and fully develop customer base
• Provide evidence of customer demand to influence new products / enhancements / solutions
• Planning and research (10%)
• Responsible for developing a personal sales plan to achieve targeted objectives and goals
• Personal time management of day to day activities to maximize return on resources
• Keeping fully updated on customer activities as reported in the media and via internal Group sources
• Maintain and understand the business environment in which the customer operates
• Constantly update knowledge on all products and services offered by KCB.

Minimum Position Qualification Requirements:

2. Experience