Business Development Manager at Association of Chartered Certified Accountants

The Job

Reporting to the Country Head Nigeria, on a day-to-day basis, you'll be involved in the following:

• Developing plans and execution framework for partners and stakeholders engagement within the Lagos/West region and contribute to business development plan for the market.
• Lead, inspire and motivate team by role modelling the ACCA behaviors, building employee engagement, promoting diversity and inclusion and effective performance and development support, deliver consistent sustainable business results.
• Contribute to the identification and implementation of opportunities to grow ACCA's business through employer, University, secondary school and other partnerships ensuring a clear and mutually beneficial proposition
• Own, monitors and drives the achievement of key performance indicators and outcomes for the Lagos/West region, aligning product and channel plans.
• Build strong engagement and partnership plans for public sector, government and key regulatory organizations
• Develop new and existing revenue streams with employers to maximize opportunities and grow ACCA's business
• Work with partners to ensure global solutions, content and expertise are leveraged and consistently implemented within the market
• Work with colleagues from other specialist teams to make high value connections between partners and optimize the ACCA ecosystem
• Reports regularly on progress through the appropriate reporting mechanisms on agreed KPIs and outcomes linked to the balanced scorecard

The Person

We are looking for someone who has:

• Demonstrable experience in business development and relationship management ideally in an education environment
• Demonstrable commercial acumen with experience across sales, brand management and marketing in B2B and B2B2C environment
• Good understanding of public sector and government relationship management
• In depth understanding of the financial education and skills landscape
• Ability to lead and inspire a community of business relationships employees
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build long term, high quality, trusted relationships up to and including board level
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and oral
• Excellent networking, influencing and negotiation skills
• Highly motivated, proactive and enthusiastic with the ability to plan and organize work to meet stretching targets
• A global perspective - experience of working in or with an international organization
• A degree with relevant post graduate qualification would be an advantage