Business Development Executive
Forza Voila, Pakistan

Your job as a business development manager is to identify sales leads, pitch goods or services to new clients and maintain a good working relationship with new contacts. . Communicating new product developments to prospective clients.

This role revolves around good communication and so whatever business you work in your duties are likely to include:

Following up new business opportunities and setting up meetings

Planning and preparing presentations (say hello to Powerpoint)

Communicating new product developments to prospective clients

Overseeing the development of marketing literature

Writing reports

Providing management with feedback

As a business development manager you'll be concerned with improving and growing a business, by fostering and developing relationships with customers, suppliers and other partners. You may work to improve profitability through careful strategic planning and positioning in the appropriate markets, or to enhance the operation of the business, position or reputation in some way.

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

identify new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, products and services

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

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 company, this task may be completed by someone else or agreements may not be as formal

have a good understanding of the businesses' products or services and be able to advise others about them

ensure staff are on board throughout the organisation, and understand the need for change and what is required of them

train members of your team, arranging external training where appropriate

discuss promotional strategy and activities with the marketing department

liaise with the finance team, warehousing and logistics departments as appropriate

seek ways of improving the way the business operates

attend seminars, conferences and events where appropriate

keep abreast of trends and changes in the business world.

If your business development role is more sales orientated, you may also do some or all of the following:

help to plan sales campaigns

create a sales pipeline

negotiate pricing with customers, and suppliers in some cases

carry out sales forecasts and analysis and present your findings to senior management.

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