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Description
Position: Business Development Manager
Number of hours: 10 hours/week
Schedule: EST
Tasks required:
- Research and identify new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets
- Identify business prospects and decision-makers in target markets
- Meet with customers to present the products of our clients and close deals
- 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
- Maintain sales pipeline prospect status and set follow-up appointments via CRM system
- Create strategic plans in order to develop and improve the business
- Work strategically to carry out necessary plans in order to implement operational changes
- Have a good understanding of the businesses' products or services and be able to advise others about them
- Seek ways of improving the way the business operates
- Keep abreast of trends and changes in the business world
- Develop the business sales and marketing strategy
- Other ad hoc tasks that would be assigned
Requirements
Requirements:
- Proven work experience as a Business Development Manager
- Background or experience in the engineering industry is required
- Familiarity with technology jargon and technology related projects
- Excellent telephone manner for making initial contact and for ongoing communication with customers and business associates
- Experience in B2B and B2C sales
- Excellent selling, closing, persuasion and presentation skills
- Very particular on the process of sourcing out leads and what tools to use
- Ability to follow up on the marketing & LI campaigns
- Understanding on how the marketing campaigns work is a plus
- Resourceful and knows how to solve problems
- Excellent working knowledge of WhatsApp, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media platforms for business purposes
- Proven track record of successfully meeting sales quotas preferably over the phone
- Working knowledge with current technologies, like desktop sharing, cloud services and VoIP (GSuite, Zoom, Slack, Asana, Notion, etc.)
- Well versed in social media marketing and advertising
- Can be friendly and accommodating to all customer and clients’ concerns
- Self-disciplined and organized; able to consistently hit daily and monthly targets with limited supervision