Senior Business Development Executive at Zeta Brent Education

Responsibilities

• As a Senior Business Development Officer, you'll need to:
• 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 organisation
• Generate leads and cold call prospective customers
• Foster and develop relationships with customers/clients
• 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
• Draw up client contracts 
• Have a good understanding of the businesses products or services and be able to advise others about them
• Train members of your team, arranging external training where appropriate
• Discuss promotional strategy and activities with the marketing department
• Liaise with the finance and operations teams as appropriate
• Seek ways of improving the way the business operates
• Attend seminars, conferences, and events where appropriate
• Keep abreast of trends and changes in the business world.
• Help to plan sales campaigns
• Create a sales pipeline
• Negotiate pricing with customers, and suppliers in some cases
• Increase sales of the business
• Develop the business sales and marketing strategy.

Skills

You'll need to have:

• Tenacity and drive to seek new business and meet or exceed targets
• An excellent telephone manner
• Interpersonal skills
• Written and verbal communication skills -
• IT skills
• Digital Marketing Skills 
• Decision-making skills
• The ability to multitask and prioritise your workload
• Project management and organisational skills
• The ability to motivate yourself and set your own goals
• Excellent 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.

Work Experience:

• 5 years preferably in real estate, banking, or any industry that deals with sales to high net-worth customers. 

Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in any business-related field