Business Development Executive Job at Poise Nigeria

Poise Nigeria Limited is Nigeria’s premier Personality and Image Consulting organization with over twenty one years in both service and soft skills training industries, we have a proven track record of making great executives.

20 years ago, Poise Nigeria inspired a movement in the training industry. Since then, we have emerged as the pioneer Business Image Branding and Consulting firm in Nigeria. As an authority in this space, we have defined our competencies in Performance Enhancing Corporate Culture with a focus on Total Personality Development. We have impacted over 10 million people in Africa, by transforming and refining their personal and professional experiences. These individuals have subsequently impacted their organisations and industries positively. Our ambition is to see leadership revolutionized to bring about positive change in society.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Business Development Executive
Job Location: Lekki, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Industry: Training and Consulting

Job Description

• Identify new markets/Customers; develop new accounts for business, especially outside Lagos.
• Establish, build and maintain a good relationship with customers.
• Develop new products as per market demands.
• Monitor competitor products in the marketplace, including stock levels, market share pricing data, designs, promotional activities and make recommendations based on market data.
• Make recommendations based on customer feedback and competitors' products.
• Visit markets around Nigeria, regularly to meet customers, push sales to reconcile their accounts and understand problems.
• The ideal candidate should be one with tenacity and drive to sell the company's services.
• Develop and monitor operational sales strategies.
• Maximize Sales revenue through the development and allocation of sales targets and the monitoring of sales performance against the sales targets.
• Monitor and analyse competitor business in order to identify and exploit new business opportunities and increase market share.
• Establish, manage and maintain positive relationships with all internal stake holders, agencies and clients directly in order to generate income and profits for the region.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Seek out new prospects and develop clientele base via networking.
• Promote company's products and services to existing and prospective clients by utilizing available resources.
• Work with prospects through the sales process; understand customer needs; handle objections and close business deals.
• Address client inquiries, ensuring their needs are consistently met and explaining features, advantages and disadvantages of policies to promote sales of training Programmes.
• Maximize sales of appropriate products that meet the needs of customers by effective use of sales skills.
• Good Knowledge in marketing and liaison.

Qualifications / Experience

• B.Sc in Marketing, Business Management or Economics.
• Masters is an added advantage.
• Prior marketing/sales experience is required, at least 2 years of experience will be an added advantage.
• Must be computer literate.
• Fluent in spoken English and adept at written skills in English.
• Ideally, exposure to working within a multi-cultural environment.
• Must be willing to travel in and around Nigeria.
• The candidate must be self-motivated, confident, enthusiastic and able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• A person of high integrity who is direct and truthful but at the same time is confidential.
• Sales experience in consulting and training firms is an added advantage.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: hr@poisenigeria.org using the Job position as the subject of the email.