Business Development Manager

Job Summary
As a Business Development Manager, your Job is to identify and pursue sales leads and build awareness for our brands and products for businesses and within corporate environments, to also ensure that customers and business expectations are met and/or exceeded our business strategy

Responsibilities

• Business Development; Corporate sales
• Identify potential Corporate Clients, Access their credit worthiness and target them for closure within a set timeframe.
• Identify and acquire new customers within corporate environment and also ensure their profitability is maintained
• Actively contribute to the growth strategy and wider business plan of the company.
• To explore customer needs with the aim of matching products with the Customer Value Proposition.
• Following up new business opportunities and setting up meetings with corporate clients.
• Identifying business opportunities and pinpoint problem areas to further increase sales volume and profitability per product sales.
• Communicating new product developments to prospective clients
• Increasing the values of new clients while attracting new ones
• Meet potential clients by growing, maintaining, and leveraging network.
• Build, manage and maintain customer database for CRM purposes
• Preparing daily, weekly and monthly reports. May have to submit other unscheduled reports.
• Explore opportunities with existing customers to get increased business and Cross sell to increase engagement with customers.
• Reports to: Head of Sales and Marketing

Qualifications

• First-degree or equivalent education
• Minimum 5 years post NYSC work experience with at least 2 in a supervisory or managerial position
• Training in Customer Service, Financial management will be an advantage
• Retail training will be an advantage

Skills:

• Excellent communication skills
• Service-oriented
• Organized and pays attention to detail
• Proactive and self-leading
• Team player
• Accounting skills and/or willingness to learn
• Smart personal appearance
• IT Competence
• Good team player
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Enthusiastic, Adaptable and flexible
• Willing to take on additional responsibility
• Comfortable with Information Technology
• Proficient in MS Word & Excel. Access will be an advantage
• A passion for premium brands