Business Development Consultant - Pietermaritzburg

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

• 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 company’s 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 company’s marketing communications
• Promote sister companies – Steiner Hygiene, TopTurf, etc.

Reporting:

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

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLSThe Applicant must meet the following requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree/National Diploma in Sales/Business Development/Marketing
• Matric (Senior Certificate)
• Valid Driver’s License
• Own vehicle
• Min 3 Years’ Solid Experience In Business Development & Best Practices within the Sales Environment
• Strong Sales & Marketing Knowledge (Ideally In The Services Industry)
• MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Outlook

FUNDAMENTAL COMPETENCIES

• Ability & Desire To Sell
• Result Oriented
• Attention To Detail
• Stress Tolerant
• Excellent Written Communication
• Team Leadership
• People & Task Orientated
• Assertiveness
• Action Orientated
• Customer/Client Focused
• Negotiation Skills
• Interactive Reasoning
• Planning & Scheduling
• Teamwork
• Relationship Building
• Good Listening Skills
• Excellent Oral Communication
• Creative & Innovative