Business Development Manager - Education

About Wio

Wio Bank is a leading one-of-a-kind financial platform that is revolutionizing the banking industry in the MENA region. Our platform is here to reboot personal and business banking in the digital age. Our personalised features and seamlessly integrated services are built around your needs, helping you spend, save, and plan for your future.

What You'll Be Responsible For

• Build and grow Wio's Education portfolio across the UAE by acquiring new customers across nurseries, training centers and schools.
• Source and close new business and work directly with nursery owners, training centers, school operators, and other education businesses.
• Introduce customers to Wio's business banking and payment solutions, helping education businesses simplify collections, payments and day-to-day banking.
• Identify new business opportunities and generate a consistent pipeline of customers.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to deliver a seamless customer experience.
• Represent Wio at industry events and actively grow your network within the education sector.
• Provide market feedback to help shape future products and propositions for education customers.
  
  

What Are We Looking For

• Proven end-to-end closing: you sourced and signed the deals yourself.
• Established, current network across UAE nurseries, training centers and/or schools.
• Depth in one sub-sector valued over breadth.
• Comfortable building a territory and creating opportunities from scratch.
• Excellent relationship-building, negotiation and communication skills.
• Self-driven, commercially minded and comfortable working in a fast-moving environment.
  
  

Success In This Role

• You'll be measured on:
• New customer acquisition
• Value of new business won
• Growth of the Education portfolio
• Pipeline generation and conversion
• Adoption of Wio's products and services
  
  

Why join Wio?

Education is one of Wio's strategic growth sectors, and you'll be joining at an exciting stage of the journey. You'll have the opportunity to build and grow the portfolio with the backing of one of the UAE's most innovative digital banks, bringing solutions that genuinely help education businesses operate and grow. You'll play a key role in establishing Wio as the banking partner of choice for nurseries, schools and training centers across the UAE.

If you think you'd be a great fit but don't meet every requirement, we'd still encourage you to apply.

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