Assistant Manager, Business Development

Vans; Auckland; On-site; NZD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Principal Accountabilities

• Sell the organization's products to a set of prospects with whom the company does little or no business currently
• Selling activity may occur through partner relationships or directly to end customers

Knowledge & Skill Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field
• Equivalent years of experience in a substantially similar industry may be considered in lieu of a degree to be determined by the nature of the specific job and the hiring manager’s criteria
• Minimum of five years of related experience preferred
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Proficient PC skills

Knowledge & Application

• Discipline expert, typically with a number of years post qualification experience or equivalent business experience
• Integrates and communicates fairly complex information within the specialization or recognized body of formal knowledge
• Knowledge of principles and practices within a professional discipline
• Assess unusual circumstances, suggests variations in approaches, and incomplete or conflicting data

Problem Solving

• Resolve issues that are differing, but related
• Issues require sophisticated analytical or problem solving techniques to identify cause
• Devises solutions based on limited information and uses past experience or precedent to identify solutions or to adapt existing approaches to resolve issues
• Uses evaluation, judgment, and interpretation to select right course of action, which may impact the longer term
• Anticipates future issues
• Work is done independently, but is reviewed at critical points

Interaction

• Interprets and explains information to audiences who are not familiar with the subject matter often requiring persuasion
• Adapts style to differing audiences
• Requires objective review of difficult work problems, obtaining cooperation or approval
• Requires considerable resourcefulness
• Requires strong multicultural awareness to appropriately deliver messages

Impact

• Impact is limited to the achievement of short- to medium-term goals
• Contributes to delivery of discipline/department goals through personal effort or through influence over team members
• Has contributory impact on team/discipline performance

Accountability

• Accountable for meeting own target which will impact the discipline
• Accountable for own targets which will typically be definable but not always financially measurable