Business Development Executive

Job description / Role

Job purpose:

Strategy benchmarking, continuous improvement and analysis.

Key responsibilities:

• Liaise with management to develop business plans for the company.
• Implement plans towards strategic marketing of company's products.
• Provide enabling environment for complementing the company's business plan strategically developed towards better profit making.
• Optimize process involved in business development as the organization's representative.
• Acquire knowledge about the organization and implement such knowledge in day-to-day dispensation of duty.
• Understand organization's business operation and status, including specific opportunities, competitive landscape and business trend towards better service delivery and improved profit making.
• Identify all potential leads towards placing the organization on solid profit making foundation.
• Collect and share industrial and market intelligence among members of staff and management.
• Collaborate with other members of staff towards better execution of company's plans and business development activities.
• Evaluate any trade association and professionals that can positively impact business practices in the organization.
• Liaise with relevant staff in proposal development and be involved in tracking success ratio of such proposal.
• Evaluate all cross-marketing prospects of the organization and provide needed assistance with all cross-marketing initiatives of the company.
• Work together with marketing department staff to strengthen the organization's integrity.
• Participate in the marketing programs of the organization.
• Ensure proper execution of new business initiatives.
• Oversee continuous improvement activities in the organization.

Skills required:

• People management.
• Managing project and time.
• Being responsible and ethical.
• Being computer literate.
• Mentoring inexperienced employees.
• Performing at high level constantly.
• Making concrete and effective decisions.
• Motivating staff.
• Willingness to commit more hours than usual to work and to function under flexible working conditions.
• Willingness to travel for a considerable time period in the course of serving the firm.
• Good knowledge about marketing principles and client development in a professional service industry setting.
• Strong verbal and written proficiency, including professional proofreading, editing, and presentation capability.
• Ability to interact with external and internal clients professionally.
• Ability to prioritize and manage many tasks simultaneously.
• Ability to face and overcome new challenges seen in the course of work.
• Ability to work and interact with members of staff at various levels in the organization.
• Ability to arrive fast at workable decisions and to adapt self to any working condition.

Qualifications:

• Diploma or bachelor's degree in relevant fields, like communication, public relations and marketing.
• 3 years working experience in business development or marketing fields.
• Ability to use computer programs, like PowerPoint, Excel, and word processing packages.

Other requirements:

• Fluent in English speaking and writing, Arabic.
• UAE driving license is a must.