BDO Publishing at Detail and Avedia Consulting

The Business Development Officer will be charged with the duty of managing the D&A publishing arm, creating new in-road for the business, establishing partnerships with bookstores all over Nigeria, delivering new products on time (e.g. books, reports, magazines etc.) achieving all round growth for business areas, and meeting revenue targets

Job Description

• Oversee design, editing, production, and marketing of the book projects including the selection of title pages, cover design, interior layout design, etc.
• Identify and evaluate market opportunities for potential manuscripts
• Identify and expand on book distribution channels and opportunities
• Keep track of book sales and distribution
• Promote books to potential clients and partners i.e book stores, corporate partners, etc.

Skills and qualities

• Self-motivated and target oriented
• Broad literary skills
• Adept knowledge of the publishing industry
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills
• Ability to plan, monitor and record activities required to hit targets
• Ability to measure and interpret key business metrics
• Confident and professional demeanor
• Excellent spoken & written communication skills
• Quick thinker and learner
• Ability to produce decks and proposal documents

Outcome

• Growing and scaling book publishing department
• Expand book distribution network
• Growing book sale numbers
• Forming more partnerships to promote books and drive sales
• Expand publishing reach and influence in the publishing industry
• Building the framework for a sustainable publishing house