Business Development Officer at Deola Sagoe Limited

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 Title: Business Development Officer

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
• 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
• 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

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
• 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
• 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.

Application Closing Date
12th October, 2017.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV's and Cover Letter to: hr@houseofdeola.com