Direct Sales Executive

Direct Sales Executive / Business Development Executive / Payments Consultant

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Do you hold sales experience and eager to make a significant impact in the Payment Services and Cards Terminal industry? viva.com is an acknowledged technology leader within payments technology and is looking for driven and resilient SMB Sales Executives to join our innovative team and help us achieve our ambitious growth targets.

Why viva.com?

Viva.com is Europe's first acquirer powering merchant payments acceptance across 24 countries and over 1,215 devices. In the UK, Viva.com operates as an E-Money Institution authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), offering an omnichannel payments platform that empowers businesses of all sizes to accept and manage payments — in-store, online, or on the go. 

Viva.com leads in Tap on Any Device technology, offers a high-conversion Smart Checkout for online payments, and provides a robust marketplace solution, enabling flexible, scalable, and future-proof payment journeys tailored to every business model. All technology is built in-house on Microsoft Azure, ensuring speed, security, and innovation at scale. 

Through its direct connections to local payment schemes and alternative payment methods, Viva.com supports 40+ payment options. Key features include Real-Time Settlement, Offline Payments, acceptance fees as low as 0% with the use of Viva.com's business debit card, and Merchant Advance. 

With a growing ecosystem of 450+ tech partner-innovators, Viva.com is leading the shift to All-in-One business solutions, empowering merchants to adopt cutting-edge technology seamlessly and scale their business with ease. 

Learn more at viva.com

About the role:

As a member of the Direct Sales Team in viva.com, you will be responsible for converting both in-bound and self-sourced sales leads into viva.com merchants for card terminals and related merchant acquiring services. You will be providing a first-class sales service, aligned to customer needs and acting as a trusted partner.

More specifically, as a Direct Sales Executive, you will:

• Manage and organize diaries effectively
• Handle objections with resilience and persistence
• Adopt a results-driven approach with strong self-drive
• Work under pressure to achieve sales targets

To be considered you should have:

• Expertise in B2B sales or high value B2C sales
• Strong organizational and diary management skills
• Resilience and persistence, able to handle sales objections effectively to achieve win-win outcomes
• A results-driven approach and strong self-drive, along with the ability to work under pressure to achieve sales targets
• Motivated to succeed, both personally and financially
• Excellent use of English

Desirable:

• Ability to understand, demonstrate and communicate web-based software products

• Ability to deal with a diverse client base
• Additional language skills of Turkish, Mandarin or Cantonese would be beneficial although not essential

• A competitive salary and uncapped bonus scheme with a realistic OTE of upto £70,000 per annum
• Private medical health insurance
• Pension
• 25 days holiday
• Office gym (Milton Keynes office only)
• We work in an open, transparent working environment that actively promotes ingenuity and team work
• You will be fully trained and continuously supported
• Working in an international fin-tech company with a large cultural diversity
• A fast paced and high energy environment
• Collaborating with motivated and dynamic colleagues
• Work with the latest in payments acquiring technology
• Opportunity to grow progressively in your domain