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That's for good reason-the fees are too high, the closest branch can be miles away, and nobody takes cards. Without access to financial institutions, people are forced to keep their savings under the mattress. Small business owners rely on lenders who charge extortionate rates. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash.\nWe're solving this by building financial services that just work: no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water and roads don't always work, you can still send money with Wave. In 2017, we launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments. Now, we have millions of users across 9 countries and are growing fast.\nOur goal is to make Africa the first cashless continent and that's where you come in...\nHow you'll help us achieve it\nWe’re looking for a Key Account Manager who is commercially driven, data-oriented, and passionate about building strong, long-term partnerships. In this role, you’ll be responsible for owning and growing a portfolio of strategic corporate payment partners, driving their performance and identifying opportunities to expand their use of Wave’s products.\nYou’ll combine relationship management, commercial strategy, and operational problem-solving to ensure our partners are successful. You’ll also lead and develop a team of Account Supervisors, working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver against our growth objectives and continuously improve the partner experience.\nIn this role you'll; \nOwn and grow a portfolio of corporate partners\nManage a portfolio of key corporate payment partners, and act as their main business and operational point of contact.\nEngage closely with partner stakeholders to build strong relationships, understand their business, and identify blockers to growth.\nRun regular business reviews with your partners: performance against targets, product roadmap, open issues.\nIdentify growth opportunities and cross-sell new payment products across your portfolio.\nDetect early churn signals volume decline, drop in unique payers, inactive stores and act on them before they turn into losses.\nBuild and execute a growth roadmap per account, sequenced by cycle objectives, with clear owners and deadlines.\nDrive commercial performance\nLead the analysis of merchant performance: identify what is working and what is not, and take action to ensure a high standard of service and sustainable growth.\nPrepare and defend pricing proposals: document current volume, growth commitments and competitive pressure, and structure fee reductions as volume-conditioned tiers rather than flat concessions.\nDrive in-field activation at partner locations, staff training, point-of-sale visibility and branding materials so that signed partners actually transact.\nOnboard new partners onto our standard payment products, from commercial agreement to first transactions, and own their ramp-up to target volume.\nEnsure operational excellence\nEnsure high-quality customer support by advocating for partners' needs and resolving issues related to our products, including refunds, settlements and funding requests.\nAct as first-level resolution for partner incidents, coordinating with Finance, Support and Product until closure.\nWork closely with our Risk & Fraud team to minimize fraud cases and threats to the security of payment partners.\nMonitor your team portfolio for abnormal activity, unexplained payer spikes, atypical transaction patterns and escalate promptly.\nIdentify priority areas and develop solutions to Wave's payments liquidity needs nationwide, with a focus on merchant expansion.\nWork with data\nTrack your portfolio on our dashboards, run a weekly pulse (wow), and turn what you see into a short list of prioritized actions.\nReport clearly and consistently on portfolio health, open actions and risks to your Lead and to cross-functional stakeholders.\nLead your team\nManage, coach and grow a team of account supervisors: set priorities, run regular 1:1s, and hold a high performance bar.\nProvide guidance and feedback that strengthen the knowledge and skills your team needs to meet company OKRs.\nDevelop playbooks and workflows for your team, and keep training material for products, campaigns and features up to date.\nWork closely with internal teams Sales, Admin, Corporate Support, Finance, Compliance, Marketing, Product, to align on critical goals and implement strategies.\nHelp shape Wave's global strategy by sharing insights and learnings from the Côte d'Ivoire team's experience.\nLead by living Wave's values, and ensure they're deeply ingrained within your team\nKey details\nLocation: Abidjan\nWork authorization in Côte d'Ivoire is required. \nThis is a permanent position.\nOur salaries are competitive and calculated using a transparent formula. \nWe offer generous health insurance for yourself and your dependents. \nWe support working parents - we offer generous parental leave policies (26 weeks for mothers and 4 weeks for fathers) and subsidized childcare when you return to work.\nWe help you live your fullest life now! We subsidize gym memberships and fitness classes.\nAirtime reimbursement.\nFree food and a beautiful office space.\nRequirements\nA degree in general management, sales, project management, finance, international relations, business management, or a comparable field. \nAt least 5 years of experience in a similar position (ideally in an international company, a bank, a mobile money company, or similar) with a minimum of 2 years experience at a managerial position.\nRelevant experience either in operations, sales, support, or distribution.\nFluency in French \nGood level in English - this role will regularly interact with non-French speakers.\nProven track record in delivering a great customer experience.\nAbility to conduct duties discreetly and impartially.\nYou might be a good fit if you\nHave experience managing team management.\nAre as comfortable in a meeting room making a presentation as you are in preparing partnership documents in French/English. \nAre enthusiastic about Wave's mission and eager to do what needs to be done to accomplish it.\nAre a team player, but you can also work independently.\nAre result-oriented, with an engaging personality and an excellent ability to build trust with both external and internal stakeholders.\nAre able to think creatively and work proactively to achieve challenging targets.\nCommunicate effectively and often, both in writing and in person, to the point of over-communication.\nAre detail-oriented and seek to achieve excellence in everything you do.\nAdjust quickly to changing conditions and any environment.\nHave excellent oral and written communication with good interpersonal skills.\nOur team\nWe have a rapidly growing in-country team in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Uganda, Niger, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon plus remote team members spread across the world.\nWe're deeply passionate about our mission of bringing radically affordable financial services to the people who need them most.\nWe foster autonomy for our employees. You'll own your projects at every stage, from understanding the problem to monitoring your solution in production.\nWe raised the largest Series A in Africa in 2021. Our world-class investors, include Founders Fund, Sequoia Heritage, Stripe, Ribbit Capital, Y Combinator, and Partech Africa.\nWe are on Y Combinator's top companies by revenue.\nHow to apply\nFill out the form below, and upload a resume in English and a cover letter describing your interest in Wave and the role.\nWe review applications frequently and recommend that you apply to the role that most closely aligns with your skills, experience and career goals.\nWave is an equal-opportunity employer. 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