Business Development Assistant

Description

  Job Purpose

The Business Development Assistant is responsible for providing support to the organization’s development team to ensure a timely and consistent delivery of core company services to its clients and ensuring that the potential and existing clients remain satisfied with the company’s brand.  The Business Development Assistant will contribute to the delivery of service and making plans towards achieving the company’s goals and ideals.

Requirements

  Duties and Responsibilities

• Manage the communication of the organization with clients via means like emails, telephones, and websites
• Respond to inquiries made by clients about company products and services in a timely and friendly manner
• Act as link between the organization and the clients to ensure clients take more interest in products and services rendered by the business organization
• Undertake and monitor research to provide highly needed support for the business development team
• Identify and communicate with new business leads for the organization
• Conduct research and make delivery on any intelligence that will have strong impact on proposition development for any new investment project of the organization
• Develop good knowledge regarding priority sectors, like market routes and trends; this enables the organization to improve on its effectiveness in service delivery
• Provide required support for the organization’s business development team, especially in activities relating to account management
• Perform various tasks, like recording minutes during meetings
• Develop operational contacts, which will provide needed support for the tasks undertaken by the organization’s business development team
• Contribute to the management of the organization’s systems to ensure things are done accurately
• Assist the sales agents of the organization to complete clients visit reports and system development
• Manage reports and management information to ensure the company meets up with requirements made known by clients
• Support the business development manager in sales support when required by him/her
• Work under direction of the business development manager
• Assist the manager to make inquiries on small projects and to handle them from start to finish
• Cooperate in positive manner to the growth of the organization by providing required assistance to relevant staff and organization’s partners

Other Duties

• Management      reserves the right to change job duties with or without notice. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field of study
• Ability to adequately demonstrate working experience acquired from similar positions
• Ability to adequately perform professional  services relating to the needs of the organization
• Excellent skills in logistics management and information and computer technology
• Strong creative ability
• Ability to carry out research relating to the organization and collate the information derived from such research towards improving the organization’s business status
• Strong communication skills in both written and verbal forms
• Excellent attention to details and strong ability to produce high quality reports and presentations
• Ability to focus on the designed end goals of the organization
• Excellent skills in time management
• Ability to beat deadlines and to also perform multiple tasks at the same time
• Ability to work as team player
• Strong drive towards fulfillment of company’s goals
• Willingness to take calculated risks
• High level of integrity and probity
• Ability to relate freely with other members of staff, both up and down the ladder

Travel

50% travel may be required.

Working conditions

This position is performed in an office environment.

Physical requirements

The working environment and physical demands described here are representative, but not necessarily all-inclusive, of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

• Required to walk, sit, and reach with hands and arms; and to stoop,      kneel, crouch, crawl, or twist body to fit and/or reach.
• The employee’s lifting requirement and/or move items up to 50      pounds. 
• Be able to work in the presence of odors typical of petroleum or      petrochemicals without allergic reactions or nausea, when such odors are      within OSHA-designated permissible exposure limits (PELs).
• May be exposed to fumes, airborne particles, and toxic or caustic      chemicals.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

To perform this job successful, an individual must be able to perform the primary job responsibilities satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodation. The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work assigned to this job, but not an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required. Furthermore, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer. 

AAP/EEO: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.