Business Development Officer

Location: Abuja (FCT)

Job Summary

• The Business Development Officer (BDO) is tasked with driving sales velocity, customer acquisition, and retail loan portfolio growth. The focus is expanding commercial pipelines for Proof of Funds (POF) solutions, corporate loans, and collateralized personal credit lines.

Core Responsibilities

• Portfolio Origination: Secure high-value clients and businesses to deploy expansion, asset-backed, or urgent personal loans.
• POF Client Acquisition: Build strategic relationships with educational consultancies, travel firms, and visa applicants to accelerate our Proof of Funds services sales volume.
• End-to-End Deal Conversion: Source prospective leads, assess initial application files, address client goals, and manage onboarding seamlessly.
• Strategic Referral Networks: Develop a strong grid of third-party intermediaries, corporate brokers, and travel advisors to capture ongoing referral avenues.

Key Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Business, Marketing, or a related quantitative field.
• Experience: 2 to 4 years of proven loan origination, credit retail sales, or fintech business acquisition experience within the Nigerian financial ecosystem.
• Product Competence: Practical knowledge of personal credit parameters, immigration/visa proof of funds frameworks, and business compliance benchmarks (CAC processes).
• Target Drive: Confident communicator, strong cold-caller, capable of building networks independently to consistently meet capital deployment goals.
• Local Context: Deep familiarity with the Abuja consumer base and local commercial market dynamics.

Application Closing Date
24th September, 2026.

Interested and qualified candidates should send in their CV to: recruitment@protenintl.com using ''Business Development Officer'' as the subject of the email.

Note: Only qualified candidates will be contacted