Luxus Foods Limited, is currently recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:
Job Title: Business Development Officer
Location: Lagos
Requirements/Qualifications
- A degree that is applicable to the role; business development, business management, accountancy, economics, law and international relations
- Work experience: 2 years
Skills:
- You’ll need to have:
- Good networking skills
- The ability to think strategically
- The ability to analyse sales figures and write reports
- Initiative and the confidence to start things from scratch
- The ability to speak multiple local languages is an asset when dealing with diverse clients.
- Tenacity and drive to seek new business and meet or exceed targets
- An excellent telephone manner for making initial contact and for ongoing communication with customers and business associates
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills – needed for communicating with a wide range of people, both internally and externally
- Good IT skills, including the use of spreadsheets
- A professional manner and presentable appearance for meeting customers/clients
- Initiative and good decision-making skills
- Project management skills
- The ability to motivate yourself and set your own goals
- Great organisational skills
Job Description/Responsibilities
- Seek ways of improving the way the business operates
- Attend seminars, conferences and events where appropriate
- Keep abreast of trends and changes in the business world
- Help to plan sales campaigns
- Create a sales pipeline
- Negotiate pricing with customers, and suppliers in some cases in line with company policies
- Carry out sales forecasts and analysis and present your findings to the MD.
- Identify new business opportunities – including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, products and services
- Seek out the appropriate contact in an organisation
- Generate leads and call prospective B2B customers
- Handle social media pages
- Understand the needs of your customers and be able to respond effectively with a plan of how to meet these.
- Think strategically – seeing the bigger picture and setting aims and objectives in order to develop and improve the business
- Work strategically – carrying out necessary planning in order to implement operational changes
- Have a good understanding of the businesses’ products or services and be able to advise others about them
- Ensure staff are on board throughout the organisation, and understand the need for change and what is required of them
- Discuss promotional strategy and activities with the MD
What To Expect
- It can be stressful trying to create new business opportunities, in addition to the constant pressure of meeting or exceeding targets.
- Business development is quite a creative role and can be very satisfying but this is accompanied with challenging aspects.
- You may have the responsibility of managing a team and their output.
- You’ll frequently travel within the day for face-to-face meetings with customers and other business partners. Depending on the type of business, overnight or out of state travel may also be required.
- You’ll be expected to dress smartly, especially for meetings, though slightly more relaxed business casual attire may be acceptable at other times.
Working hours:
- You’ll usually work a regular 8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday week, though you may on occasion have to work longer to meet a project deadline or when attending an event or conference.
Salary/Benefits
- Your starting salary as a graduate business development officer will be in the region of 50,000 – N70,000 monthly.
- Salary is based on experience and portfolio.
- It’s common for bonuses to be paid. Other benefits may include a pension and healthcare scheme membership.
- Income figures are intended as a guide only.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV’s to: snackattackng@gmail.com
Application Deadline 22nd October, 2018.
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