Senior Business Development Officer at Interra Networks

ROLE PROFILE:
You should possess excellent written and oral communication skills.  Highly innovative with a proven ability to create and implement sales strategies to achieve growth in revenue.  Results oriented and target driven. You should also possess strong interpersonal skills with abilities to effectively build and manage relationships. 

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Locating, developing, and defining business opportunities as well as negotiating, and closing business deals utilizing both traditional and online platforms.
• Generate new business with assigned clients and targets in line with the sales plan.
• Develop a list of prospects in both the public & private sector across target markets.
• Prepare proposals on company products/service offering.
• Updating sales activities using the CRM funnel.
• Going to conferences and seminars and keeping up with industry trends
• Meeting sales targets
• Administering technical presentations and establishing how a product meets client needs.
• Carry out any other task that may be assigned by Management.

Additional Qualities:

• Able to use MS Office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.)
• Good knowledge of B2B and B2C sales
• Solid understanding of business development principles.
• Able to work to deadlines and have an understanding of how businesses operate.
• Must be able to work under pressure and within environment of change, maintaining excellent quality.
• Able to work both in a team and also perform independently.
• Able to close deals.
• Good knowledge of Lagos market and its environs.

Education and Qualification:

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree preferably in an Information Technology field.
• Minimum of 2 - 4 years’ business experience.
• Possession of a professional certificate is an added advantage.