🚀 Join Lesaka as a Manager: Growth Executive – Lead the Charge in Merchant Growth!

📍 Location: Field-based within your assigned region
📊 Reporting To: Head of Growth (Vertical)
👥 Direct Reports: Growth Executives & Growth Administrators

Are you a strategic leader with a passion for fintech, field sales, and team empowerment? Lesaka is looking for a Manager: Growth Executive to lead a dynamic regional team driving merchant acquisition, activation, and multi-product adoption across our powerful suite: Card, Cash, Capital, Software, and VAS.

This is a field-first leadership role — not desk-bound. You’ll be in the trenches with your team, modelling excellence, closing deals, and building a high-performance culture that delivers real impact.

🌟 What You’ll Do:

• Lead & Coach: Recruit, train, and energise Growth Executives and Administrators.
• Drive Results: Set targets, manage performance, and ensure consistent delivery of acquisition and activation goals.
• Own the Region: Translate strategy into action, manage forecasts, and optimise pipeline health.
• Collaborate & Influence: Work cross-functionally with Product, Marketing, Finance, and Operations.
• Engage Merchants: Lead from the front — attend meetings, present solutions, and support deal closures.
• Promote Learning: Ensure product certification and refresher training every 90 days.

💼 What You Bring:

• 5–7 years in sales management or channel leadership (fintech/merchant services preferred).
• Proven success in field-based leadership and direct sales.
• Strong analytical, CRM, and reporting skills.
• Bachelor’s in Business, Commerce, or Marketing (preferred).
• Valid driver’s licence and reliable vehicle — frequent travel required.

🔑 Key Traits We Value:

• Leadership & coaching excellence
• Commercial acumen & data-driven decision-making
• Sales execution & operational discipline
• Customer-centric mindset
• Change agility & people development

📈 Your Impact Will Be Measured By:

Leading Indicators:
• Merchant meetings held
• Pipeline quality & conversion
• Training completion
• Performance actions closed

Lagging Indicators:
• Acquisition & activation targets
• ARPU growth
• Churn reduction
• ROI from merchant events

💡 Why Lesaka?

We’re more than a fintech — we’re a movement. At Lesaka, you’ll lead with entrepreneurial spirit, integrity, and ownership, driving financial inclusion and digital transformation across South Africa.

Preference will be made to support EE / AA measures