Business Development Manager (Advertising & Creative Agency) at iRecruiters Africa Limited May, 2024

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Job Objective:

  • This role will assist the company to achieve growth and increase revenue.
  • The Business Development Manager’s responsibilities include building and strengthening internal and external relationships, managing customer relations, and implementing strategies designed to increase revenue and acquire new business opportunities.

Roles & Responsibilities:

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

  • Ability to perform detailed market research and analysis, prepare proposals and have great networking skills.
  • Building and maintaining relationships with both internal and external teams.
  • Identifying innovative marketing technology solutions that can be presented to clients as part of our offerings.
  • Creating a sales funnel and driving sales growth.
  • Managing sales pipeline to ensure timely and accurate forecasting.
  • Tracking and reporting sales activity in CRM tool.
  • Overcome the gap between technology and marketing in the Company’s offering to her clients.
  • Leverage digital tools to proffer marketing communications solutions to clients.

ACCOUNT PLANNING & IMPLEMENTATION

  • Manage assigned projects with top-down oversight throughout entire execution to ensure success as defined by adherence to standards of scope, budget, and timeline.
  • Develop comprehensive project plans that merge customer requirements with company goals and coordinate various managers and technical personnel during all project phases, from initial
  • development through implementation.
  • Manage client relationships concerning output from the agency.

FINANCIAL PLANNING AND REPORTING

  • Monitor revenue projections and report actual achievements and variance to the Client Service
  • Director and Management regularly.

Key Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in business administration, marketing, or related field.
  • A Master’s degree in Business Administration is an added advantage.
  • Professional Business Qualifications will be an added advantage e.g. NIM
  • Experience 5 – 8 years of proven experience in sales, marketing, business development, and
  • management especially in an advertising agency.
  • Conversant with identifying and selling marketing technologies.

Key Competencies Required

  • Proficient in CRM tool
  • The ability to see opportunity to sell
  • Sound negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

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