Helium boasts a 35-member strong sales team in Nigeria largely skewed towards the private sector.
Key highlights:
⁃ Despite the fact that public sector sales team is lean, it is highly experienced with networking in the government sector at the decision maker level
⁃ Partnerships team works with resellers, distributors, IT playersacross the public and private sector both
⁃ Public sector team contributes majority of the revenues currently
⁃ No account managers; sales team manages the relationship across the lifetime
⁃ Operations analysts support the regional leads and growth associates with trading area analysis and coordination points with the head office
⁃ Independent customer success team to handhold clients
Learnings:
⁃ Hiring right people at the get go is the most important part of the process, especially for public sector sales.
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