Business Development Manager

Business Development Manager

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Experience:

we’re well aware of the impact our solutions have on the leading brands

Responsibilities:

As a business development manager, you'll need to:

• Research and identify new business opportunities - including new markets (Printing Industry), growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets
• Seek out the appropriate contact in an organization
• 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
• Have a good understanding of the businesses' products or services and be able to advise others about them
• Help to plan sales campaigns
• Create a sales pipeline
• 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
• Writing business proposals

Skills:

You'll need to have:

• 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
• Interpersonal skills for building and developing relationships with clients
• Written and verbal communication skills - needed for communicating with a range of people, both internally and externally, as well as presentation skills
• IT skills, including the use of spreadsheets
• Team working skills and a collaborative approach to work
• Decision-making skills
• The ability to multitask and prioritize your workload
• Project management and organizational skills
• The ability to motivate yourself and set your own goals
• Negotiating skills
• The ability to think strategically
• The ability to analyze sales figures and write reports
• A flexible approach to work with the ability to adapt to a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
• Initiative and the confidence to start things from scratch.