Business Development Associate at Uniccon Group

Responsibilities

• Identify, research, and map out business opportunities including new markets, trends, growth areas, customers, and partnerships, products (tangible and intangible or new ways of gaining more in existing markets for the Group, subsidiaries, and projects.
• Source relevant contacts in organizations that are potential markets/clients, reach out via visits, proposals and establish business relationships
• Manage new and existing relationships via calls, emails, and necessary channels of communication to generate business or grow existing ones with them
• Develop proposals, letters, documents, or product papers to prospect new relationships or maintain existing ones.
• Be strategic in thinking by seeing the overview, funneling, setting aims and objectives to create new businesses and improve current business
• Researching and advising management on the viability or otherwise of new or running projects or business ventures
• Work strategically to carry out set out plans, strategies and achieve desired results
• Organize stakeholders’ meetings and seminars with aim of extracting business opportunities.
• Identify relevant stakeholders, partnerships, endorsements, supports for the e-products of the Company and follow up with action to achieve them
• Exhibit sound understanding of the Group, subsidiaries, projects’ products, and operations; and capacity to effectively communicate same to clients.
• Collaborate with the Trade and Commerce department to develop strategies, and promotions that would facilitate achievement of sales and marketing objectives.
• Work and synergize with all relevant departments of the Company in the interest of growth.
• To discharge any other responsibilities assigned by Management from time to time.

Skills Requirements/Key Competencies

• BSc/HND in Social Sciences or related field
• Suitable Professional certification
• 3 to 5 years’ experience in a similar role or banking experience preferably