Lead Conversion Specialist
Job summary
We are seeking a highly driven, commercially minded Lead Conversion Specialist to join a growing automotive business in Lagos. This is a lead-driven and conversion sales and customer acquisition role for someone who understands that generating leads is only the beginning.
Job descriptions & requirements
Responsibilities:
Lead Management & Conversion:
- Take ownership of incoming leads and customer enquiries from multiple channels.
- Respond promptly and professionally to new enquiries through phone calls, WhatsApp, email, social media, and other communication channels.
- Contact, qualify, and segment prospects based on their needs, buying intent, budget, timeline, and vehicle requirements.
- Follow up consistently with prospects who have expressed interest but have not yet converted.
- Develop structured follow-up strategies to move prospects through the sales funnel.
- Identify high-intent prospects and prioritise them appropriately.
- Re-engage cold, inactive, or previously unresponsive leads.
- Maintain accurate records of every prospect and the status of each opportunity.
- Ensure no qualified lead is neglected, forgotten, or left without appropriate follow-up.
- Track prospects from initial enquiry through consultation, test drive, quotation, negotiation, booking, payment, and final conversion.
Customer Acquisition & Sales:
- Convert qualified leads into vehicle sales and other relevant automotive business opportunities.
- Understand customer requirements and recommend suitable vehicles, products, or services.
- Clearly communicate vehicle features, benefits, pricing, financing options, availability, and value propositions.
- Conduct persuasive product presentations and sales conversations.
- Arrange and coordinate test drives, showroom visits, consultations, and other customer interactions.
- Prepare and follow up on quotations, proposals, and commercial offers.
- Negotiate professionally with prospects while protecting the company's commercial interests.
- Handle objections relating to price, financing, vehicle specifications, availability, competitors, and purchase timing.
- Identify opportunities to upsell or cross-sell relevant automotive products and services.
- Maintain relationships with prospects who are not immediately ready to purchase and nurture them toward future conversion.
Social Media & Digital Lead Generation
The role will have a strong connection to the company's digital and social media activities.
You will:
- Monitor leads and enquiries generated from Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, WhatsApp, websites, online campaigns, and other digital platforms.
- Respond to prospective customers who engage with automotive content.
- Identify potential buyers from social media interactions, comments, direct messages, enquiries, and campaign responses.
- Work closely with the Marketing and Social Media teams to understand which campaigns and content generate the strongest leads.
- Provide feedback on the quality and intent of leads generated from different platforms.
- Recommend content, campaigns, offers, or customer engagement strategies that could improve lead generation and conversion.
- Follow up on social media enquiries and move interested prospects from online interaction into direct sales conversations.
- Identify recurring customer questions and objections and provide insights that can improve future content and campaigns.
- Support the development of customer-focused digital sales initiatives.
Sales Funnel Management:
- Maintain a clear and up-to-date pipeline of prospects.
- Categorise leads according to stages such as new enquiry, contacted, qualified, interested, test drive scheduled, quotation sent, negotiation, booking, and converted.
- Monitor movement of leads through the sales funnel.
- Identify where prospects are dropping off and recommend strategies to improve conversion.
- Track conversion rates and follow-up performance.
- Ensure prospects receive timely communication at every stage of the customer journey.
- Maintain accurate information in the company's CRM, lead management system, spreadsheets, or other designated tools.
Customer Relationship Management:
- Build strong and professional relationships with prospective and existing customers.
- Understand customer needs and provide personalised recommendations.
- Maintain communication throughout the buying journey.
- Deliver an excellent customer experience from first contact through purchase and after-sales follow-up.
- Follow up with customers after purchase to strengthen relationships and encourage referrals and repeat business.
- Develop a strong network of potential customers, corporate clients, fleet customers, and other relevant business contacts.
Business Development:
- Identify new customer acquisition opportunities within the automotive market.
- Research and identify potential individual, corporate, fleet, and institutional customers.
- Develop relationships with potential business partners and referral sources.
- Explore opportunities for corporate vehicle sales, fleet purchases, leasing, mobility solutions, and other relevant business opportunities.
- Monitor competitors, market trends, customer preferences, pricing, and emerging opportunities.
- Provide recommendations to management on opportunities for improving customer acquisition and sales conversion.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree, HND, or equivalent qualification in Business Administration, Marketing, Sales, Communications, or a related discipline.
- 2–5 years of relevant experience in sales, business development, customer acquisition, lead conversion, inside sales, client relationship management, or a similar commercial role.
- Experience in automotive, mobility, vehicle sales, dealership, financial services, real estate, telecommunications, technology, or another lead-driven sales environment is an advantage.
- Proven experience working with sales leads and converting prospects into customers.
- Experience using CRM systems, lead management platforms, spreadsheets, or sales tracking tools.
- Strong understanding of digital and social media lead generation is an advantage.
Performance Expectation:
This is a target-driven role.
The successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate measurable performance across:
- Number of leads contacted
- Lead response time
- Number of qualified leads
- Follow-up activity
- Appointments and consultations generated
- Test drives scheduled
- Quotations generated
- Sales pipeline value
- Lead-to-customer conversion rate
- Number of successful conversions
- Revenue generated
- Customer acquisition
- Re-engagement of inactive leads
- Customer retention and referrals
Key Competencies
We are looking for someone who:
- Has a strong sales and customer acquisition mindset.
- Enjoys working with leads and turning enquiries into sales.
- Is persistent without being aggressive.
- Is confident communicating with customers by phone, WhatsApp, email, and in person.
- Can handle objections and difficult customer conversations professionally.
- Understands sales funnels and customer buying journeys.
- Is highly organised with strong follow-up discipline.
- Can manage multiple prospects simultaneously without losing track of opportunities.
- Is commercially aware and motivated by targets and results.
- Can identify buying signals and prioritise high-value opportunities.
- Understands how social media and digital platforms can generate business leads.
- Is comfortable working with CRM systems, spreadsheets, or lead management tools.
- Has strong negotiation and persuasion skills.
- Can work independently while collaborating effectively with Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, Finance, and other teams.
- Is proactive and willing to take ownership rather than waiting to be instructed.
- Has the ability to turn customer conversations into commercial opportunities
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