A payments infrastructure for Africa providing All The Support You Need ™️ to start, scale and thrive. Kora allows businesses to scale faster by providing them with a robust and powerful core payment engine that eliminates the complications associated with simpler and bulk transactions.

About The Role 

As a Merchant Success Associate at Korapay, you will be responsible for managing all aspects of our relationships with merchants and all other customers, being the first point of contact for issue resolution, enquiries and ultimately guiding them to having the best solution that adapts to their needs. In this role, you will be working closely with the Product, Sales, Merchant Success and Engineering teams.

Here are a couple of things you’ll be doing: 

•  Providing top-quality support to our new and existing merchants while ushering them into new markets, products or operations, helping to ensure customer satisfaction and strengthen merchant relationships.
•  Build and maintain strong, long-lasting customer relationships, being the owner of the personalized relationship with customers.
•  Expand current relationships with customers, focusing on the development of new products and operations.
•  Analyze prospects’ business requirements and work closely with the relevant internal stakeholders to help customize specific products to meet their needs.
•  Understand customers’ needs and suggest upgrades or additional features to meet their requirements.
•  Provide the Product team with customers’ feedback to help identify potential new features or products.
• Reporting Relationships & Stakeholder Engagement:
• Report to the Head, of Merchant Success and work as part of the vibrant Merchant Success Team to ensure utmost Merchant Satisfaction amidst the high volume.
• Working collaboratively with our engineering team, Product team, Sales team, and Compliance team, to ensure each merchant is onboarded in a professional, and timely manner.

Requirements

•  A minimum of 2 years experience in a similar role in a B2B environment, financial services or banking industry.
•  High proficiency and fluency in both Swahili and English are compulsory
•  Experience in dealing with customers to ensure high-quality interaction management and query handling.
•  Passion for customer success and deep interest in understanding client needs.
•  Great written and verbal communication skills – needed for communicating with a range of people, both internally and externally, and good presentation skills.
•  Ability to achieve optimal conversation ratings and standard KPIs
•  Experience in delivering client-focused solutions based on customer needs.
•  Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to build effective relationships with customers and work effectively with them.
•  Exceptional organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple activities and projects at the same time.
•  Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
•  Passion for customer success and deep interest in understanding client needs.
•  Finally, you promote a “customer first” environment at all times