Business Development Manager Job at Zurishaddai Recruitment Agency
Zurishaddai Recruitment Agency - Our client, a core construction company who serves as contractors for buildings and infrastructure, is recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Position: Business Development Manager
Job Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Overview
- Our client needs an experienced, energetic and ambitious business development manager that can drive its business to join its team.
- The Business Development Manager will identify new business opportunities in order to generate revenue and improve profitability.
- The overall objective is to drive sustainable financial growth through boosting sales and forging strong relationships with clients.
Job Responsibilities
- Research and identify new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets
- Seek out the appropriate contact in an organization
- Understand the needs of your customers and be able to respond effectively with a plan of how to meet these
- 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
- Generate leads and cold call prospective customers
- Meet with customers/clients face to face or over the phone
- Foster and develop relationships with customers/clients
- Draw up client contracts - depending on the size of company, this task may be completed by someone else or agreements may not be as formal
- Have a good understanding of the businesses' products or services and be able to advise others about them
- Ensure staff are on board throughout the organization, and understand the need for change and what is required of them
- Train members of your team, arranging external training where appropriate
- Discuss promotional strategy and activities with the marketing department
- Liaise with the finance team, warehousing and logistics departments as appropriate
- Seek ways of improving the way the business operates
- Carry out sales forecasts and analysis and present your findings to senior management/the board of directors
- Create a sales pipeline and help to plan sales campaigns
- Attend seminars, conferences and events where appropriate
- Keep abreast of trends and changes in the business world.
- Develop the business sales and marketing strategy.
- Negotiate pricing with customers, and suppliers in some cases
- Perform other responsibilities as directed by the management
Requirements / Skills
- A First Degree in Business Administration, Marketing or any similar course
- Minimum of 5 years of previous experience in similar role
- Previous experience in construction industry is an added advantage
- 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
- Interpersonal skills for building and developing relationships with clients
- Written and verbal communication skills - needed for communicating with a range of people, both internally and externally, as well as presentation skills
- IT skills, including the use of spreadsheets
- Team working skills and a collaborative approach to work
- Decision-making skills
- The ability to multitask and prioritize your workload
- Project management and organizational skills
- The ability to motivate yourself and set your own goals
- Negotiating skills
- The ability to think strategically
- The ability to analyse sales figures and write reports
- A flexible approach to work with the ability to adapt to a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
- Initiative and the confidence to start things from scratch.
Salary Budget
Open & Negotiable.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: zurishaddairecruitmentagency@gmail.com using "Business Development Manager" as the subject of the mail.
Note: Only suitably qualified candidates will be contacted.
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