Cards Sales & Business Development Manager

Location: Harare, Zimbabwe (On-site)Duration: 12 MonthsDescription:Please apply only if you are based in Zimbabwe and eligible to work onsite in Harare, and available to be join from September 2026.We are hiring a Cards Sales & Business Development Manager to work on a project for one of our clients, a leading bank. This is a hands-on commercial role focused on one clear outcome: driving acquisition, activation, and spend on the bank's consumer debit and credit card products.You will build the sales strategy and then make it happen — creating the content and tools, working the prospect lists, converting leads, and making sure new cardholders actually activate and start spending. It's a role for someone who has personally sold cards or card-linked products and can also lift a sales team's performance around them.We are looking for a manager-level professional with 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in banking, and specifically in cards.The work itselfStrategy and execution sit together in this role. You will develop the sales strategy to drive acquisition, activation, and spend on premium consumer card products, then build the content and tools that make it work — email templates, call scripts, and sales-cycle guidelines.You will work the pipeline directly. You will identify and prioritise prospects across existing and new customers, support the sales conversations and lead conversion, help onboard new customers where needed, and follow up to make sure they activate and reach first usage.You will lift the wider team, too — building training material for each stage of the sales cycle and running periodic sessions to sharpen the client's sales force.And you will stay accountable to results: monitoring performance, proposing improvements, and giving the client's management regular, structured progress updates against the targets that matter.What you need to haveMandatory:5 to 10 years of relevant banking experience, specifically in cards and/or card acceptanceA proven sales track record in cards or card-linked productsA strong working understanding of the consumer debit and credit card businessManager-level experience, with the ability to give a sales team the tools, training, and support to sell effectivelyStrong client-relationship-management skillsExcellent written and verbal communication in EnglishBased in Zimbabwe, or eligible to work in HarareAvailable to be staffed from September 2026Preferred:A relevant degree (Commerce or equivalent)Proven project-management skillsPrior experience across card acceptance operations or broader financial servicesThe kind of person we wantYou should be a genuine salesperson at heart — comfortable prospecting, converting, and chasing activation — but senior enough to build the strategy and the enablement material behind it, and to raise a whole team's game rather than just carrying your own number. High energy, results-driven, and comfortable reporting up to client management.What success looks likeGrowth in card issuance and cardholder spend against a clear baselineNew customers acquired, activated, and reaching first usageA sales force that's better equipped and better performing after your training and tools landClear, regular reporting that keeps the client's management confident in the trajectory