Business Development Executive at PoweredUp Consulting

Job Summary

We are seeking a candidate with a strong understanding of strategic development narrative, new business opportunities to drive growth, revenue, writing concepts and proposals, supporting report development as needed, and more. An individual who will also focus on pursuing new opportunities and trends to drive brand awareness, customer engagement, and business growth.

Key Responsibilities

•   Identify new and follow up business opportunities. 
•   Track industry news for opportunities/issues.
•   Monitor competitor activity, client and company, sector, and geographic trends, draw conclusions, assess implications, prepare marketing, and research reports.
•   Manage the pitch/proposal-development process from start to finish.
• Identify or create client/prospect outreach development tools such as one-on-one meetings, seminars and speaking engagements, events, sponsorships, client alerts, newsletters, fact sheets and other direct client communication.       
• Assist with assessing/recommending priorities for BD plans/budget, track budgets throughout the year and make recommendations to optimize limited resources.
• Manage all business development processes and procedures. 

Qualifications and Skills Required

• BA/BSc. in relevant discipline
• previous working experience in a creative or marketing agency, graphics design skills, social media management skills, team management skills, project management skills.
• Candidates should be vastly networked within the entertainment, advertising, and corporate spaces.
• Candidates should possess some digital marketing skills/experience.
• Candidate should be able to build strong, compelling, and visually appealing pitch decks.
• Candidate should be excellent at presentation – confident and well-spoken.
• Candidates should be self-driven and focused.
• Candidates should be less than 38 years old.