Business Development Manager at Simeon's Pivot

Department: Business and Project
Job Level: Managerial/Supervisory
Reports to: Senior Executive Director, Business and Project
Job Type: Full Time

Job Purpose

• To ensure steady growth in customers’ base (numbers); discover and secure businesses to increase the company’s market shares in the new and existing markets; plan and execute marketing personnel skills development and provide leadership to marketing personnel.

Job Description
It includes but is not limited to the following:

• Formulate business development strategies and tactics, review them with the senior director project and business; pursue actualization in profitable and volume business closures.
• Lead and manage all the business development teams within the span of control
• Regularly produce market intelligence reports on effectively conducted market researches that identify opportunities, threats (competitors’ activities ets) and strategic deployments. Regularly gather trends in the market place
• Create and drive market promotions to massively grow the company’s brand loyalty, market shares, revenues and profits
• Organized regular trainings and interactions for marketing personnel aimed at empowerment, performance enhancements, service assurance and disciplines
• Evaluate marketing performances; relate them against expectations and market realities; and making appropriate recommendations for greater performances.
• Take full controls, responsibilities and accountabilities for all marketing resources and activities
• Collaborate with heads of projects, head of product sales and customer care and head of workshops to develop and implement integrated solutions that would edge-out competitors, grow market acceptance and patronage
• Formulate and recommend implementable business development staff motivations options to the senior director project and business. This may include incentives, performance prize awards, etc
• Prepare periodic business development reports for senior director project and business
• Manage independent marketing agents
• Perform other duties as may be assigned from time to time by the senior director project and business

Qualification and Experience

• B.Sc /HND in Engineering or any other discipline
• Minimum of six (6) years post-graduate experience with over 4years experience in a managerial position e.g Business Development Manager, Sales or Marketing Manager in an Engineering industry
• Managerial Experience in an engineering field will be an advantage.
• MBA/MSC will be an added advantage
• Relevant professional Marketing experience

Knowledge, Skills and Competency:

• Shall possess excellent persuasive and negotiating skills
• Shall possess very good marketing acumen
• Shall possess good leadership and emotional intelligence
• Have the ability to analyze and interpret financial and statistical data
• Shall be very entrepreneurial
• Very articulate and expressive
• Very admirable and psychologically assuring physique
• Shall be physically and medically energetic for sales and marketing
• Shall be able to travel as is necessary
• Ability to communicate very well in writing
• Shall be computer literate
• Shall be ever willing to lend personal knowledge to others
• Shall be teachable and adaptable

Salary
N400,000 - N500,000/Month (Negotiable)