Implementation Manager - Johannesburg
Who we are
Yoco was founded in 2015, and we’ve been breaking down barriers, unlocking economic opportunities and opening commerce for people to thrive ever since.
We’re the payments provider for over 200 000 self-employed, and process over US$3 billion annually.
We have ±350 team members globally, all with a bias for boldness and a passion for simple, progressive solutions. We believe in uniting different people to solve hard problems, together.
Our mission of making society more equal requires a variety of people, with different backgrounds and points of view, to keep building solutions that make life easier for emerging businesses.
We’re growing fast. With growth comes compelling challenges. If you’re an ambitious problem-solver, with big ideas, a passion for doing good, bright, grounded and courageous; you’re likely to thrive at Yoco.
We don’t stop pushing. We break things to rebuild. We challenge ourselves and each other. We’re constantly evolving — and we’re doing it fast.
Grow With Us.
The Team
At Yoco, our Table by Yoco Team plays a vital role in empowering entrepreneurs in the Restaurant space to succeed. The team is dedicated to ensuring the systems they build are highly functional and tailored to the client’s needs. Our team focuses on delivering the highest quality installations and the best customer experience using software and hardware configurations to use simplicity to cut through the complexities.
The Opportunity
This role offers the chance to lead and develop the implementation teams responsible for configuring, installing, and supporting Table by Yoco point of sale at customer sites. You'll be pivotal in ensuring a smooth and positive customer experience by managing project execution, resource allocation, and fostering cross-functional collaboration.
This is a leadership opportunity for a highly organized and customer-centric individual with a proven track record in people management and operational excellence, aiming to drive efficiency and satisfaction in customer-facing processes.
The Role
As an Implementation Manager, you will be managing field installations engineers, solutions engineers making sure that projects run seamlessly and focusing on the best customer experience. You will help the team deliver and adhere to the highest standards and make sure we deliver value to our clients by having the systems set up to customer requirements.
In a typical week, you will:
Build, develop and lead a team of Field Engineers & Solution Engineers capable of set-up, installation, training and field support.
Lead the planning, scheduling and allocation of Engineers to projects and processes based on capacity, skills and demand.
Track, measure, and improve the execution and quality of projects, provide regular reporting to leadership on project status and flag any risks.
Take ownership to identify process gaps, customer issues and their root causes and implement solutions that ensure long-term resolution.
Execute with excellence and govern implementation and support processes and operations within a designated province.
Collaborate within the Operations team to define, standardise and optimize processes and operations also collaborating cross-functionally to deliver a seamless and delightful experience for our customers throughout their journey
Performance Metrics KPI management to reach goals
About You
5+ years of experience within operations and proven track record of leading teams for at least 3 years
Ability to motivate and develop people and drive success.
Strong communicator with excellent verbal and written communication.
Being able to manage on site resources for efficiency while still using process enforcement to ensure quality is delivered every time.
Ability to work on multiple projects at once without compromising quality.
Hyper-organised and structured with an operational mindset.
Managing customer expectations and escalations and solving problems.
Technical knowledge and understanding of hardware and software solutions.
Strong understanding of payments and/or hospitality software products is a plus.
The people we’re looking for
We’re looking for people who want to grow and have a thirst for learning. And as Yoco grows, we hope they stay with us for the long-term.
Building solutions for a more equal society is a daunting task—and it’s not for everyone. We never stop pushing, we break things to rebuild, and we challenge ourselves and our teammates. We start over, we constantly evolve — and we do it fast. We know that it’s just the right kind of meaningful madness for our kind of visionary human.
So, who are you? You’re someone who resonates with our mission and our values, and you’re relentlessly effective in your execution.
You’re a curious problem-solver with a passion for doing good. You’re bright, grounded, experimental and bold. You play open cards and get stuck in. You’re not afraid of change. You close the loop.
At Yoco, we laugh, embrace each other’s quirks, and support one another’s growth, all while staying authentic.
If this sounds like your kind of challenge, apply below and come grow with us.
Find out more about who we are here.
- Department
- Revenue
- Role
- Revenue Programme Management
- Locations
- Johannesburg (South Africa)
- Employment type
- Full-time
Perks and Benefits
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💙 Wellbeing
Everyone at Yoco gets 24 days' paid holiday, plus public holidays; contributions to Medical Aid (including gap cover), Retirement Annuities, and Life Insurance (including Critical Illness and Life Cover, and Income Protection).
We’re serious about family, and offer up to 6 months’ paid maternity, paternity, adoption, or shared parental leave, as well as family responsibility leave for unforeseen crises.
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🧠 Learning
Each Yoco team member gets an annual budget to further their education or training.
Training and development includes (but isn’t limited to) formal training courses, conferences, on-the-job training, and online courses.
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✨ Connecting
We gather weekly as a company (attending in a mix of in-person and remote), and organise regular company-wide socials and events.
Within (and often across) teams, we encourage and support more frequent, smaller team dining-out-ings (like brunch), and other social get-togethers (like bowling); and optional participation in one of our interest based clubs, like meditating, hiking, swimming, and yoga.
We're growing
Yoco is expanding its reach – new regions, technologies, and communities await us. As we grow, we face compelling challenges, but we are ready to embrace even the most daunting parts because we know we are building a legacy. Yoco has an enormous impact on the lives of everyday people.
As we grow to enable more businesses to thrive, it means that ambitious problem-solvers with big ideas will easily find their place with us. There will be just as much to learn, as there will be opportunities to thrive.
About Yoco
Yoco is one of Africa's largest fintech companies. We enable small businesses to thrive through open commerce.
Founded in 2015, we have helped over 400,000 small businesses across South Africa accept card payments and access capital–often for the first time.
We have over ±350 team members across our key hubs in South Africa and the Netherlands, all working to deliver world class payments and software solutions to small businesses.
We have raised $170M from some of the leading institutional investors in the world such as TPG, Dragoneer, Partech, Velocity, Quona, Raba, 4DX and many more.
Implementation Manager - Johannesburg
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