Job Description: Senior Business Development Executive

Responsibilities:

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

  1. Research and identify new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, clients, products and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets
  2. Seek out the appropriate contact in an organization
  3. Generate leads and cold call prospective customers
  4. Meet with clients face to face or over the phone
  5. Foster and develop relationships with clients
  6. Understand the needs of your customers and be able to respond effectively with a plan of how to meet these
  7. Think strategically - seeing the bigger picture and setting aims and objectives in order to develop and improve the business
  8. Work strategically - carrying out necessary planning in order to implement operational changes
  9. 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
  10. Have a good understanding of the businesses' products or services and be able to advise others about them
  11. Train members of your team, arranging external training where appropriate
  12. Seek ways of improving the way the business operates
  13. Keep abreast of trends and changes in the business world.

If your business development role is more sales orientated, you may also:

  1.  Create a sales pipeline
  2.  Increase sales of the business
  3.  Carry out sales forecasts and analysis and present your findings to senior management.
  4. Develop the business sales and marketing strategy.

Skills:

You'll need to have:

  1. An excellent telephone manner for making initial contact and for ongoing communication with Clients
  2. Interpersonal skills for building and developing relationships with clients
  3. Written and verbal communication skills - needed for communicating with a range of people, both internally and externally, as well as presentation skills
  4. Teamworking skills and a collaborative approach to work
  5. Decision-making skills
  6. The ability to multitask and prioritize your workload
  7. Project management and organizational skills
  8. The ability to motivate yourself and set your own goals
  9. The ability to think strategically
  10. The ability to analyze sales figures and write reports
  11. A flexible approach to work with the ability to adapt to a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
  12. Initiative and the confidence to start things from scratch.
  13. You should have an experience in Management Consultancy and Gaming Industry