Job Description
Job Summary
- As a Business Development Executive, you will work to improve an organization’s market position and achieve financial growth.
- You are expected to participate in the definition of long-term organizational strategic goals, build key customer relationships, identify business opportunities, negotiate, and close business deals and maintain extensive knowledge of current market conditions especially the financial markets.
Main Responsibilities
- The Business Development Executiveis responsible for developing business solutions
- The main goal is to generate more revenue for the company, to identify sales leads, pitch goods or services to new clients and maintain a good working relationship with old and new contactsand come up with new sales ideas.
- This includes new sales strategies, sales pitches, and business plans.
- Generate Revenue in terms of deposits
Roles / Responsibilities
- Prospect for potential new clients and turn this into increased business.
- Developing growth strategies and plans.
- Meet Investment/risk targets for each products as set out at the beginning of the fiscal year.
- Preparation of budgets and reviewing time-framesfor meeting budget.
- Manage portfolio to balance interest rate yield per loan while continually increasing funding volumesand minimizing delinquency.
- Identify and mobilize Investments from both individual and corporate entities.
- Deliver quality client service by ensuring that loan decisions are communicated effectively to clients in a timely manner.
- Manage commission payouts and communicate interest rate changes as the need arises.
- Cold call as appropriate within your market or geographic area to ensure a robust pipeline of opportunities. Meet potential clients by growing, maintaining, andleveraging existing network.
- Research and build relationships with new clients.
- Set up meetings between client decision makers and Bank’s practice leaders/Principals.
- Plan approaches and pitches.
- Work with team to develop proposals that speak to the client’s needs, concerns, and objectives.
- Participate in pricing the solution/service.
- Handle objections by clarifying, emphasizing agreements and working through differences to a positive conclusion.
- Use a variety of styles to persuade or negotiate appropriately.
- resent an image that mirrors that of the organization.
- Investment Appraisal.
Business Development Planning:
- Attend industry functions, such as association events and conferences, and provide feedback and information on market and creative trends.
- Present to and consult with mid and senior level management on business trends with a view to developing new services, products, and distribution channels.
- Identify opportunities for campaigns, services, and distribution channels that will lead to an increase in sales.
- Using knowledge of the market and competitors, identify and develop the Banks’s unique selling propositions and differentiators.
- Brainstorm with other business development teams to create new products that will meet client’s needs while increasing profitability
- Manage records of new clients established, investments risk assets and other important data.
Management and Research:
- Submit weekly progress reports and ensure data is accurate.
- Forecast sales targets and ensure they are met by the team.
- Track and record activity on accounts and help to close deals to meet these targets.
- Work with marketing staff to ensure that prerequisites (like prequalification or getting on a vendor list) are fulfilled within a timely manner.
- Ensure all team members represent the Bank in the best light.
Objectives - Performance Indicators
- Effective business development strategy, new sales strategies, sales pitches.
- Generate revenue for the bank
- Prospect new business, and potential clients
- Client retention and generation.
Required Educational Qualifications / Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree / Master's in Business Management, Marketing, Business or a related field, marketing strategy
- With 5 - 9 years of Experience in related role.
- Required Behavioral Skills:
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to Build Client Relationships,
- Excellent innovative skills
- Good Writing and Public Speaking Skill,
- Leadership and People Management Skill,
- Detail-Orientated
- Organisational.