Business Development Officer

Deola Sagoe is a fashion visionary with a unique approach to her craft that has endeared her to fans and followers all over the world. Using African fabrics, hand-woven materials, and contemporising almost-lost traditional African techniques, Deola designs present a unique vision and attitude for the modern woman.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Business Development Officer
Job Location: Lagos

Job Description
Key Elements of the role:

• Report to the Head, Corporate Strategy
• Create and build profitable and successful relationships with clients in the Fashion and Retail communities by marketing and cross-selling all of our service offerings
• Development of strategy and business case pre-launch through roll out
• Execution and evaluation of market, competitive analysis, and market positioning of the company
• Strategic product planning, positioning, and cost optimization calculations
• Establishment and control of the product development processes
• Manage Budget and cost responsibility
• Act as the first port of call for nominated customers
• Liaise with customers and in house design/development teams in order to develop seasonal ranges
• Providing customers with accurate and timely sampling, costing, lead-time and delivery Information as needed working with the head office production team
• Identify potential new customers/markets in association with Head of Design and Product Development to develop business
• Identify key trends in association with Design and Production teams
• Constantly pursue new business opportunities within new companies and markets while collaborating with Account Management partners to strategically expand the existing business
• Be in constant communication with prospective clients via cold calls, warm calls, networking events and the use of social media with the goal of generating business opportunities
• Collaborate with internal team members and strategically leverage the strength and knowledge of the team to determine how to best service accounts
• Utilize existing clients and resources to network and build client referrals

Requirements, Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree/HND in Business Administration, Marketing or any other relevant discipline with 4 years demonstrable experience in the same capacity
• MBA and/or Professional financial certification will be an added advantage
• Extensive network in fashion and lifestyle
• High affinity for innovative themes and intuition for market trends
• Experience in cost and project management
• Ability to coordinate external partners
• Excellent poise, presence, and presentation skills
• Self-starter with mature analytical skills and ability to work under pressure
• Ability to handle people, processes and products
• Innovative and forward thinking, with a track record of executing new ideas
• Excellent organisational skills
• High level of attention to detail
• Good problem solving and decision making skills
• Good negotiation and persuasion skills
• Experience in the use of ERP
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools such as Word, Outlook and Excel.
• Membership with Fashion Institutes
• Extensive knowledge of International fashion business practices and procedures
• Business acumen and understanding of the retail products and business cycle
• Knowledge of capital structuring
• Excellent knowledge in marketing, market research, corporate communications
• Experience in set-up and implementation of new business models in the lifestyle sector

Deadline
12th October, 2017.