Business Development Manager
Experience: 5 10 Years
Location: South Africa Kampala Nairobi
Must have
min 4 years of experience in Sales BD experience and freight industry experience
Candidate must have experience in any one of the Domains Sea/Ocean/Air Freight/Trucking.
MUST HAVE experience in pure sales hunter role.
Job Description:
To assist the CEO in business development and be directly responsible for revenue generation from specified geographical areas. The Business Devlopment Manager will work towards achieving set targets on all core products: ACI/ GPGI /SFI / ACE / SFE / GPGE & WM.
- Manage an assigned geographical sales area or product line to maximize sales revenues & coverage to meet corporate objectives.
- Develop prospective clients and make cold calls while servicing and growing existing clients.
- Present and sell company products and services to current and potential clients. Must be wellversed with products.
- Prepare action plans and schedules to identify specific targets maintain a sales pipeline sheet.
- Follow up on new leads and referrals resulting from field activity.
- Prepare presentations proposals and sales contracts.
- Maintain sales kits and current product knowledge.
- Respond to client inquiries in a timely manner
- Prepare quotations through Customer service / Sales coordinator & send to clients.
- Follow up on quotations and close business if lost revert with reasons.
- On receiving confirmed business hand over to customer service with a proper SOP wherever required.
- Assist the credit control team to collect dues and outstanding amounts from clients in allotted credit limit.
- Meet corporate budget targets.
- Timely submission of reports set by the management as per the deadline.
- Provide MIS information on Market & Competitor activity to Management.
- Ensure Credit customers are wetted out through the with Credit approval process.
- Assists in the implementation of company marketing plans as needed.
- Other duties as assigned.
market analysis,ace,freight industry knowledge,competitor analysis,management,credit,presentation skills,customer service,air,cold calling,quotations,credit approval process,business development,freight,proposal preparation,client relationship management,sales