Business Development Executive
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Role Overview
Business Development Executive role focused on acquiring SME merchants for a fast-growing BNPL platform.
This is a fully outbound sales role with no inbound leads or pre-assigned deals; the successful candidate builds a pipeline from zero.
The role owns the complete merchant journey from prospecting through onboarding and live activation.
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Role overview
Business Development Executive role focused on acquiring SME merchants for a fast-growing BNPL platform.
This is a fully outbound sales role with no inbound leads or pre-assigned deals; the successful candidate builds a pipeline from zero.
The role owns the complete merchant journey from prospecting through onboarding and live activation.
Pipeline generation
- Generate pipeline through self-directed outbound activity and extend the provided prospect lists.
- Research SME merchants, verticals, and micro-markets and engage owners, founders, and decision-makers.
- Conduct cold calls, multichannel outreach, field visits, and merchant meetings.
- Use CRM and sales data to track KPIs, analyze the funnel, and prioritize opportunities.
Sales and commercial execution
- Own opportunities from prospecting and discovery through pitch, negotiation, close, onboarding, and activation.
- Run consultative discovery, present BNPL and LTF solutions, deliver demos, and prepare tailored proposals.
- Handle objections, negotiate within approved frameworks, secure approvals, and drive deals to signature.
Collaboration and merchant growth
- Partner with Risk, Scoring, Onboarding, Product, and Operations to resolve blockers and complete actions.
- Support a smooth onboarding journey, drive activation, and follow up after go-live to encourage adoption.
- Capture merchant feedback and market intelligence and route insights to relevant teams.
Product and market agility
- Build subject-matter expertise in BNPL and LTF and ramp quickly on SME Financing, Tabby Card, and other propositions.
- Adapt positioning and messaging as products, processes, and market conditions evolve.
Required qualifications
- 1–2 years of professional experience in sales, business development, or another target-driven commercial role.
- Proven self-generated outbound sales pipeline and ability to create opportunities independently.
- Bachelor’s degree and fluency in Arabic and English.
- Strong communication, commercial acumen, negotiation, CRM, sales-data, and pipeline-management skills.
- Grit, resilience, persistence, and comfort in a target-driven, high-accountability environment.
Advantageous experience
- B2B or SME sales exposure, fintech, BNPL, payments, banking, lending, financial or technology solution selling, merchant acquisition, or field sales experience is advantageous.
- Experience selling directly to business owners and decision-makers, plus strong Excel, Google Sheets, or CRM reporting skills, is advantageous.
Benefits
- International team, inclusive culture, work-life balance, employee stock options, learning opportunities, relocation support, and work devices.
About Tabby
Tabby provides flexible payment products for shoppers and merchants and operates across the GCC fintech market.
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