Business Development Managers at a Start-up Healthcare Company - Hamilton Lloyd and Associates

Hamilton Lloyd and Associates - Our client is a start-up healthcare company headquartered in the UK with presence in Nigeria and with immediate expansion plans across Africa; and with a focus on the delivery of specialized digital healthcare services across the country. As part of the set-up of the Nigeria office, our client is looking to hire the services of:

Job Title: Business Development Manager

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Demonstrate success at working in a fast-paced, highly-competitive, deadline-oriented environment.
• Self-motivated individual who exhibits a sense of urgency in all marketing- and service-related activities.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, follow-up, negotiation, and closing skills
• Ability to establish and build relationships quickly with global team members as well as within.
• Play an active lead role in the Company’s R&D strategies
• Develop a growth strategy focused both on financial gain and customer satisfaction
• Conduct research to identify new markets and customer needs
• Arrange business meetings with prospective clients
• Promote the company’s products/services addressing or predicting clients’ objectives
• Prepare sales contracts ensuring adherence to law-established rules and guidelines
• Keep records of sales, revenue, invoices etc.
• Provide trustworthy feedback and after-sales support
• Build long-term relationships with new and existing customers
• Develop entry level staff into valuable salespeople
• Serve as a lead facilitator both internally and externally for projects
• Proactively hunt for target organizations and establish communication with those businesses that can benefit from the company services.
• Offer insight and leverage learning across product lines. (in drafting project and marketing plan, planning product launch, media communication campaign, sales activation, events, exhibition, channel merchandising.
• To craft sales and marketing plan for financial years.
• To craft and adopt go-to market strategies for the sales team.
• To monitor team's performance and motivating team to achieve targets.
• To conduct sales review meeting for compiling and analyzing pipelines.
• To manage key customer accounts and drive the technical maintenance strategy.
• To provide detailed activity chart to senior management regarding performance.
• To oversee the preparation of proposals and the presentations.
• To prepare and adhere to approved budget.
• Other duties deemed reasonable by the Organisation.

Man Specification

• Bachelor's Degree in Sales/ Marketing, Business Admin, Economics or related discipline.
• Post-qualification experience of 7-10 years senior roles in the marketing and sales function
• Proven working experience as a business development manager, sales executive or a relevant role
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft office Suite and CRM
• Proven ability to effectively execute streamlined marketing programs
• Ability to analyze and understand marketing data and develop strategies from the insights
• Must be a well-groomed personable individual
• Proficiency in English
• Market knowledge
• Communication and negotiation skills
• Ability to build rapport
• Time management and planning skills
• Must be ambitious and target-driven
• Ability to be flexible and to prioritize in complex situations
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong persuasive, critical thinking, sound logic and decision making skills
• Experience in similar work environment will be an added advantage. Innovative and pace setter
• Not afraid to push the envelope
• Motivation to work hard and have a track record of performance
• Experience in customer support is a plus

Application Closing Date
15th November, 2016.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their CV's to: [email protected] make the subject of the mail the job title

Note: Only successful candidates will be contacted.