Business Development Executive

Position Overview

Reporting to the Business Development Director, you will work in conjunction with the sales and marketing teams to develop & implement plans for sales growth for existing and prospective accounts. You should be a high performer and able to help meet our customer acquisition and revenue growth targets by keeping our company competitive and innovative.

Principal Tasks and Accountabilities

• Manage and interpret both new and existing customer requirements - to understand, anticipate and practically meet their needs.

• Offer customers a product or service that best satisfies their needs in terms of technical specification, quality, price and delivery, for your range of products.

• Calculate accurate and competitive sales quotations and prepare tenders, proposals and technical documents to meet customer deadlines.

• Follow up quotations in a timely manner to secure profitable orders.

• Offer after-sales service and support to develop and grow long-term relationships with new and existing customers.

• Build close relations with key suppliers in order to develop in-depth knowledge of your product range and to understand new product developments.

• Analyze costs of sales, to be able to make informed pricing recommendations for core and new business opportunities and propositions in emerging markets.

• Attend and actively contribute to sales meetings to keep colleagues informed about customers and your product range.

• Be pro-active in progressing customer orders to completion and respond to customer progress enquiries within expected timescales.

• Work in conjunction with the sales team as the key technical advisor and product advocate for our products

• Liaise with suppliers, issue purchase order to suppliers & coordinate purchases. If needed, to look for new suppliers obtain quotations from suppliers, comparison of pricing & technical specifications

If you are a fresh graduate looking for long-term career development, here is the opportunity for you to be coached personally by the business owner with many years of experience. You must be highly driven and be willing to learn.

If you are a mid-career switcher and know what you want to achieve in life, we want to meet you as well!