Job Title: Business Development Officer
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description
- Identify new business opportunities – including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, products, and services
- Generate leads and cold call prospective customers
- Meet with customers/clients face to face or over the phone
- Understand the needs of customers and be able to respond effectively with a plan of how to meet them
- Think strategically – seeing the bigger picture and setting aims and objectives in order to develop and improve the business
- Work strategically – carrying out necessary planning in order to implement operational changes
- Have a good understanding of the businesses’ services and be able to advise clients accordingly.
- Discuss promotional strategy and activities with the management.
- Seek ways of improving the way the business operates
- Attend exhibitions, seminars, conferences, and events where appropriate
- Keep abreast of trends and changes in the business world.
Requirements
Experience, Qualification and Required Skills:
- University degree in Business, Marketing, or related field.
- Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in sales, marketing, or business development in HR consulting and/or outsourcing.
- Tenacity and drive to seek new business and meet or exceed targets.
- An excellent telephone manner for making initial contact and for ongoing communication with customers and business associates.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills needed for communicating with a wide range of people, both internally and externally.
- Excellent report-writing skills.
- A professional manner and presentable appearance for meeting customers/clients.
- Initiative and good decision-making skills.
- Project management skills.
- The ability to motivate self and set own goals.
- Great organizational skills.
- Good networking skills.
- The ability to think strategically.
- The ability to analyze sales figures and write reports.
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office suites (Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint).
How to Apply
Interested and qualified applicants should please send their updated curriculum vitae (CV) to: [email protected] with “Business Development Officer” as the subject of the email.
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Deadline: January 31, 2021
Job Features
Job Category | Sales / Business Development |