Senior Business Development Manager

**Senior Business Development Manager - Paris, France**

Are you driven to succeed and get recognized for your success? Do you want to work for a company where you can offer business to business clients ground-breaking digital payment solutions in pretty much any currency you can think of? Are you interested in joining a globally diverse organization where our unique contributions are recognized and celebrated, allowing each of us to thrive? Then join Western Union as a Senior Business Development Manager.

**Western Union powers your pursuit.**

In this unique role, you will be responsible for maintaining and developing new opportunities in the following:
**Role Responsibilities**
- We will look to you to identify, create and pursue new business opportunities for the company in the Corporate sector in the counties of Belgium and the Netherlands.
- Responsible for establishing new business relationships, identifying, and addressing opportunities for foreign exchange and payment solutions in order to meet and exceed sales targets.
- You will be responsible for cold calling to prospective clients as well as research and analysis of clients’ business objectives, identifying their foreign exchange and international payment requirements, and designing a benefits-based solution and action plan demonstrating how WUBS can meet client needs.
- Establish rapport and build credibility with clients through networking opportunities and effectively presenting solutions that encompass the client’s entire international payment needs and complex Forex solutions, establishing us as the primary provider.
- Manage the complete sales cycle process to ensure maximum productivity and completion of sales and pipeline reports and competitor information.

**Role Requirements**
- Education or equivalent skills are required with a strong desire to grow into a professional sales role.
- To be successful in this role, you will need to be ambitious, self-motivated, confident with high integrity and tenacity to outperform the competition.
- You will be financially astute with knowledge of business needs and concerns and must be able to demonstrate success in new business sales in a dynamic environment consistently achieving or exceeding targets.
- Possess excellent communication skills with a deep understanding of consultative sales principles, be adept at executive corporate level negotiations, and build long-term client relationships.
- Have a knowledge of the Financial Services Industry, and especially the Foreign Exchange market is required.
- Motivated, detail-orientated, and comfortable in a fast-paced and target driven environment.
- To be successful in this role, you must ideally have a native level of Dutch and French, and a good level of English language skills.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Following the Western Union Business Solutions divestiture announcement on August 4, 2021, recruitment efforts will continue for this position on behalf of Western Union. However, as part of the divestiture agreement, this position will transition to the purchasing company should the transaction conclude. The hiring team will be able to answer any questions you may have.

**We make financial services accessible to humans everywhere. Join us for what’s next.**
Western Union is positioned to become the world’s most accessible financial services company — transforming lives and communities. We’re a diverse and passionate customer-centric team of over 8,000 employees serving 200 countries and territories, reaching customers and receivers around the globe. More than moving money, we design easy-to-use products and services for our digital and physical financial ecosystem that help our customers move forward.

**Benefits**

Your France specific benefits include:

- 25 working days holiday per annum
- Maternity and Paternity leave
- Global Travel Policy for local and international business travel
- Group Medical Policy Life Insurance
- Health and Wellness programs

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