Business Development Manager - Facilities / Services / KZN

Top Talent Professional Services; Durban; On-site; ZAR 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading business development firm in Durban seeks to enhance its sales and marketing strategy. The role involves engaging potential clients, managing proposals, and achieving sales budgets. Candidates must have a Bachelor's degree, at least 3 years of relevant experience, and strong IT skills. A valid driver's license is also required.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience in Business Development within sales.
• Strong understanding of sales and marketing principles.
• Valid driver's license required.

Responsibilities

• Engage potential clients and manage proposals.
• Implement strategic initiatives to meet growth targets.
• Provide weekly and monthly sales reports.

Skills

Sales strategy development

Client engagement

Proposal writing

Market analysis

Follow-up techniques

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Sales/Business Development/Marketing

Matric (Senior Certificate)

Tools

MS Word

MS PowerPoint

MS Excel

MS Outlook

Job description

Overview

Role : To contribute to the process of refining and enhancing, on an ongoing basis, the current and future sales and marketing strategy.

Sales

• Actively search, pursue and engage potential clients
• Knowledge of existing contracts and weekly meetings with Regions General Manager & Operations Manager
• Manage the compilation, and where necessary draft, high quality proposals, bids and tender responses
• Follow-up and survey leads generated through various channels and cold calling
• Ensure tenders and bids are responded to in a professional, timely and compliant manner.
• Engage and manage strategic suppliers who are providing solution and commercial content for proposals, bids and tender responses
• Identify weaknesses in sales process and address
• Follow-up on cancelled contracts
• Implement and manage strategic initiatives to ensure that annual growth targets are met and ideally exceeded to increase the companys market share
• Achieve Monthly Sales Budgets by implementing and maintaining a marketing and sales strategy.

Marketing

• Identifying new growth opportunities by market segments
• Using the full marketing mix for the companys marketing communications
• Promote sister companies

Reporting

• Provide a comprehensive sales and marketing report on a weekly and monthly basis

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelors Degree / National Diploma in Sales / Business Development / Marketing
• Professional Registration / Trade
• Matric (Senior Certificate) and Valid Drivers lience
• Min 3 Years Solid Experience In Business Development & Best Practices within the Sales Environment Strong Sales & Marketing Knowledge (Ideally In The Services Industry)
• IT Training (General MS etc.) Statutory Requirements MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Outlook

Salary - +- R300 000pa CTC