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Business Development Manager for Kazakhstan / Kazakhstan
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Added: | 2022-03-28 |
Location: | Kazakhstan |
Salary: | Competitive |
Duration: | Permanent |
Apjid | 3 |
Key Responsibilities
Essential Criteria & Qualifications
- Research and identify new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets;
- Seek out the appropriate contact in an organisation;
- Generate leads and cold call prospective customers;
- Meet with customers/clients face to face or over the phone;
- Foster and develop relationships with customers/clients;
- Understand the needs of your customers and be able to respond effectively with a plan of how to meet these;
- Think strategically - seeing the bigger picture and setting aims and objectives in order to develop and improve the business;
- Work strategically - carrying out necessary planning in order to implement operational changes;
- Draw up client contracts - depending on the size of company, this task may be completed by someone else or agreements may not be as formal;
- Have a good understanding of the businesses' products or services and be able to advise others about them;
- Ensure staff are on board throughout the organisation, and understand the need for change and what is required of them;
- Train members of your team, arranging external training, where appropriate;
- Discuss promotional strategy and activities with the marketing department;
- Liaise with the finance team, warehousing and logistics departments as appropriate;
- Seek ways of improving the way the business operates;
- Attend seminars, conferences and events, where appropriate;
- Keep abreast of trends and changes in the business world.
Essential Criteria & Qualifications
- University degree in a related field;
- At least 5-7 years of relevant working experience;
- Tenacity and drive to seek new business and meet or exceed targets;
- An excellent telephone manner for making initial contact and for ongoing communication with customers and business associates;
- Interpersonal skills for building and developing relationships with clients;
- Written and verbal communication skills - needed for communicating with a range of people, both internally and externally, as well as presentation skills;
- IT skills, including the use of spreadsheets;
- Teamworking skills and a collaborative approach to work;
- Decision-making skills;
- The ability to multitask and prioritise your workload;
- Project management and organisational skills;
- The ability to motivate yourself and set your own goals;
- Negotiating skills;
- The ability to think strategically;
- The ability to analyse sales figures and write reports;
- A flexible approach to work with the ability to adapt to a fast-paced, ever-changing environment;
- Initiative and the confidence to start things from scratch.
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