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About the job

Cognetiks Consulting LTD is looking for a business development manager, to identify new business opportunities in order to generate revenue, improve profitability and help the business grow.

Your work can involve careful strategic planning and positioning in the appropriate markets, or enhancing the operation of the business, position or reputation in some way.

You may have a single role in the organisation or lead a team of staff. Your work will often reach across all areas of the business.

Types of business management construction;
• Education
• Finance
• Healthcare
• IT
• Manufacturing
• Telecommunications.

Alternatively, you may work across many different businesses, but with a specific focus on either:
• B2B (business to business)
• B2C (business to consumer).

Responsibilities
As a business development manager, you'll need to:
• Research and identify new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets.

• Seek out the appropriate contact in an organisation.

• Generate leads and cold call prospective customers.

• Meet with customers/clients face to face or over the phone.

• Foster and develop relationships with customers/clients.

• 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.

• Draw up client contracts - depending on the size of company, this task may be completed by someone else or agreements may not be as formal.

• 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.

• Train members of your team, arranging external training where appropriate.

• Discuss promotional strategy and activities with the marketing department.

• Liaise with the finance team, warehousing and logistics departments as appropriate

• 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.

If your business development role is more sales orientated, you may also:

• Help to plan sales campaigns.

• Create a sales pipeline.

• Negotiate pricing with customers, and suppliers in some cases.

• Increase sales of the business.

• Carry out sales forecasts and analysis and present your findings to senior management/the board of directors.

• Develop the business sales and marketing strategy.

>>>> Kindly submit your CV to info@cognetiks.com if you meet up to this criteria.

N:B: Only those that submit their CV to the mail will be reached out. THANKS!!!