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 the company's products.
• Provide an enabling environment for complementing the company's business plan strategically developed towards better profit making.
• Optimize processes 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 the organization's business operation and status, including specific opportunities, competitive landscape, and business trends towards better service delivery and improved profit making.
• Identify all potential leads towards placing the organization on a 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 the company's plans and business development activities.
• Evaluate any trade associations and professionals that can positively impact business practices in the organization.
• Liaise with relevant staff in proposal development and be involved in tracking the success ratio of such proposals.
• 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 projects and time.
• Being responsible and ethical.
• Being computer literate.
• Mentoring inexperienced employees.
• Performing at a 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 extended periods 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 encountered in the course of work.
• Ability to work and interact with members of staff at various levels in the organization.
• Ability to arrive quickly at workable decisions and to adapt to any working condition.

Qualifications:

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

Other requirements:

• Fluent in English speaking and writing; Arabic.
• UAE driving license is required.