Business Development Executive

Responsibilities:

• Assist the organization's sales and growth efforts by contributing to new customer acquisitions.
  
• Provide ideas to attract new clients and keep the senior management updated about marketplace and competitor activity.
  
• Identify and develop new business opportunities with client contacts.
  
• Generate and keep prospective client database updated
  
• Make cold calls for new business leads
  
• Support in writing new business proposals
  
• Maintain high knowledge of all product and service offerings of the company
  
• Arrange meetings for senior management with prospective clients
  
• Act as Information management about complex client issues and resolutions.
  
• Maintain a client-focused working environment for the team.
  
• Utilize effective problem solving and time management skills in client service operations.
  
• Assist in risk assessment and mitigation activities of the clients.
  
• Develop process improvements to enhance service efficiency and effectiveness.
  
• Provide support in new product development and enhancement activities of the company’s products.
  
• Provide pricing support to the solutions architecture team for pre-sales solution formulation including bid preparation
  
• Have a good understanding of customer and market dynamics.
  
• Prospect aggressively and promote the sales of the assigned products set within the sales organization and the Nigerian market.
  
• Identify new business and ways to increase revenue from the product across all accounts.
  
• Participate/facilitate client meetings (with sales account managers) for the promotion/sales of the assigned product set.
• Provide feedback/input into the product/propositions development process.
  

• 2+ years of work experience in business development and marketing, within a corporate institution
• A result-driven orientation
  
• Flexible, proactive, and data-driven.
  
• Good IT skills and must be proficient in MS Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  
• Excellent negotiation and communication skills.
  
• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills.
  
• Excellent relationship management skills.
  
• A Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration/Management/Marketing, or any other related field.