Business Development Specialist

Academiaone; London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic business development specialist to join their team. This role involves researching new business opportunities, generating leads, and fostering relationships with clients. You will be responsible for understanding customer needs and strategically planning to meet them, while also presenting sales forecasts to senior management. The ideal candidate will possess strong sales abilities and resilience, ready to face challenges head-on. If you are passionate about driving business growth in a hybrid work environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Ability to sell and cope with rejection is crucial.
• Strategic thinking to develop and improve business.

Responsibilities

• Research and identify new business opportunities and markets.
• Generate leads and foster relationships with clients.

Skills

Sales Ability

Resilience

Strategic Thinking

Job description

Full-time/Part-time/Internship | Business Development | London, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

Job Description

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

• Research and identify new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets.
• Seek out the appropriate contact in an organisation.
• 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.
• Draw up client contracts - depending on the size of the company, this task may be completed by someone else or agreements may not be as formal.
• Have a good understanding of the business's products or services and be able to advise others about them; help to plan sales campaigns.
• Negotiate pricing with customers, and suppliers in some cases.
• 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.

Requirements

You will need to have:

• The ability and desire to sell.
• Resilience and the ability to cope with rejection.