Business Development Manager at Smart Partners

Location: Ikeja, Lagos

Job Summary

• Someone who has great experience as a Business Development Manager and has also played good role in the Real Estate space.
• Candidate must continue to develop strategies to create awareness for the Company’s services and business as well as increase sales revenue.

Job Description

• Identify partnerships and opportunities targeted at developing sales
• Will be in charge of all Administrative and Marketing operations of the business.
• Gather market and customer information and network with major players in the business.
• Develop strategies and budgetary requirement forecasts to grow sales and profit targets for existing and new clients.
• Develop field sales action plans for improved sales performance, identifying marketing opportunities, market requirements, and build customer database based on company’s client’s market niche.
• Manage key accounts to meet/exceed targets relating to revenue growth activities, profit margin, sales, customer retention and customer acquisition, generates key account performance report weekly.
• Regularly develop new revenue streams for the business
• Maintain a current and accurate knowledge of competitor products, services, rates or pricing strategies, clientele and market share. Using this highlight to promote company’s market share by recommending competitive selling prices
• Keep abreast of competitor’s activity, evaluating key competitor’s strength and weakness and recommending any necessary tactical action monthly
• Develop and maintains profitable relationship with all customers and with all stakeholders and promptly resolving ALL customer-service problems
• Provide weekly, monthly and quarterly time-phased reports on achievement and activities for management information and generate progress report on sales and business volume targets from the sales data and trends.

Requirements

• MBA / M.Sc Degree in Business Development / Marketing or any other related discipline.
• Candidate must have at least seven (7) years relevant experience in similar role,
• A sound knowledge of Real Estate Business and strategies
• Candidate should have both Marketing and Administrative experience.
• Knowledge of Operations and Administrative functions in the Real Estate Sector.
• Must have achieved obvious results in sales and business development with evidence of continuous growth
• A deep understanding of marketing principles
• Good communications skills and must be able to speak with a diverse range of prospective clients- varying in size, industry and business model
• Good negotiation and persuasive skills
• Ability to take initiatives and possess great leadership skill.