Job Description
Main Duties
- Develop, revise and implement custom and standard training packages including presentations, role plays, handouts, manuals, exercises, and other resource materials
- Develop new business relationships, generate and negotiate new income for Fosad to an agreed annual target.
- Presenting Fosad to potential clients through direct communication in face to face meetings, telephone calls and emails
- Responsible for your own lead generation and appointment setting
- Actively and successfully manage sales process: lead generation; credentials pitch; asking questions; solution pitch; negotiation; close; handover to the account management team (with assistance from Group manager)
- Possess drive, motivation and acute attention to detail in ensuring all sales opportunities to Fosad are captured and explored
- You will have individual responsibility for account management and new business, and are expected to self manage; however support is available by the Managing Director and Group Managers for complex large pitches and strategies
- Managing and maintaining a pipeline and ensuring all sales administration is current using Microsoft Outlook/Diary
- Create and be accountable for all training proposals, contracts and any further documentation, following Fosad Procedure (Use of MS Suite and other processors)
- A thorough understanding of clients marketing objectives including their Return On Investment (ROI) objectives
- Responding to tenders and requests for information in a timely manner (with assistance from Group manager)
- You will effectively interact with other departments including the account management and technical team when handing over campaigns ensuring you fully and correctly brief in all aspects of the sale
- Keeping abreast of issues affecting client companies and business support services industry and collecting competitor intelligence
- Ensuring Fosad remains proactive and responsive to prospective clients as regards training
- Organise, schedule and supervise all facilitators, coaches, and demonstrators.
- Schedule trainings and secure training sites
- Supervise registration lists, confirmation letters to trainees and trainers
- Develop/revise and keep current all training manuals and materials
- Manage and solve all problems and concerns as they arise with trainees, trainers, site staff or contracting agency staff
- Support, debrief and offer feedback to presenters, coaches, role-players and trainees as needed
- Coordinate training for Fosad internal staff.
- Sale of training room for private meetings/conferences/training
- Sale of library facilities.
- Manage the training budget.
Expectations
- You will be expected to spend 60 - 80% of your time out of the office in meetings. Travel maybe a major factor and is predicted to be predominantly within Nigeria.
- As a representative of Fosad at industry events and tradeshows, your professional manner and polished appearance will aid your intention of gaining new business leads and contacts.
- Make weekly presentations on set targets and review of previous and planned activities. This will follow the weekly status meetings (with Group Manager and MD). A mid week review will take place on Thursdays (between 1 and 4 with Group Lead). Mondays will be reserved for e and telemarketing.
- You will be expected to show proof of customer satisfaction and repeat business through training evaluation and feedback.
- Dress in business attires (business casuals on ONLY Fridays).
Skills, Knowledge and Experience Required
- Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree / HND / Master's Degree
- A minimum of 1 year work experience.
- Proven success in your sales ability and demonstrable full knowledge of sales process
- Confident negotiator and ability to ‘close the deal’
- Strong client management skills and ability to keep promises
- Capable of hands on problem-solving, with ability to generate ideas and solutions
- Positive and determined approach to researching and analysing new business opportunities
- Ability to use own initiative and pay close attention to detail
- Ability to cope with competing demands and to prioritise tasks
- Strong communication skills in all forms including written, oral, email, telephone, and presentation
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- A positive attitude to dealing with people
- Capable of working independently, and having responsibility as an individual
- Nigerian driving license
- Sound understanding of Nigerian marketing sector would be a distinct advantage.
Functional Competencies Required:
- Confidence to present a tailored presentation to potential client team by effectively using a range of presentation skills i.e. body language, voice tone etc.
- Ability to deliver a tailored sales process to achieve targets /KPI’s by generating leads, asking probing questions, using most appropriate features & benefits based on clients needs and matching with a tailored solution
- Ability to identify new business opportunities using relevant research tools / sector specific targeting and cold calling
- A detailed knowledge of Fosad service offerings, i.e. Explain value of search and benefits in relation to other on line marketing
- Ability to identify issues and recommend solutions
- Ability to manage and maintain accurate and accessible tailored documentation i.e. Presentations / proposals to meet clients needs
- Ability to co-ordinate the pitch process (client value up to ?) by effectively providing the relevant teams with a summary of clients technical and marketing needs in order to obtain relevant assessment strategy recommendations.