JOB TITLE: Business Development Executive
JOB LOCATION: Lagos
JOB DETAILS:
- Build contacts with potential clients to create new business opportunities
- Make cold calls for new business leads
- Support in writing new business proposals
- Arrange meetings for senior management with prospective clients
- Provide market intelligence and understand competition
- Deliver business targets and position the brand appropriately
Role/ Task Complexity
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- Hire and Train Staff: The business development executive may have to hire and train ad-hoc staff, such as field canvassers and direct sales agents.
- Monitor and Deliver Targets: The business development executive is responsible for supervising the entire customer/client base and ensuring that all set targets are delivered as and when due.
- Write Activity Reports: While the business activities are digitized, the business development executive will be required to analyse reports and recommend courses of action that will improve performance and ensure growth. He/she will be required to identify potential problems that are keeping the company from meeting its targets, clearly explaining these issues in detail and recommending alternate courses of action.
- Establish Business Relationships: The business development executive will maintain strong relationships with staff, agents, businesses and customers/clients. Periodic and regular engagements are a must.
- Ensure Customer/Client Retention and Activity: The business development executive is required to ensure that all customer/client accounts remain active.
- Resolution of Requests and Disputes: The business development executive shall ensure that all customer/client requests and/or disputes are resolved timely and appropriately.
- Brand Positioning: The business development executive will be required to carry out outbound activities to create a market for the company and properly position the brand.
Skills and Qualifications
- Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a time sensitive environment
- Strong relationship building and interpersonal skills
- Ability to speak the general language(s) in Nigeria is added advantage
- Thorough knowledge of distribution and FMCG. Also knowledge of agent banking and financial institutions, payment processing flows (especially electronic payments), and the financial networks for processing will be a plus
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Keen attention to detail
- Creativity and innovativeness
- Excellent and professional verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to communicate and relate to people from varying relationships (i.e. personal and business), varying levels of understanding, and varying levels of positions
- Keen outstanding of exceptional customer service delivery
- Sound supervisory experience
Education and Training:
- Minimum of 3 years post qualification experience, in a similar position, is required.
- Associates / Bachelor’s degree in any Management Degree.
Salary
NGN 1,560,000 Annually
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job title as the subject of the mail.
Deadline: April 30, 2021
Job Features
Job Category | Business Development Management |