Business Development Executive

We are currently looking to hire an enthusiastic, energetic, and ambitious Business Development Executive to join our Sales team and build a strong portfolio of clients. You will focus on customer acquisition, lead generation, and prospect management, as this role will garner and meet with potential clients.

Responsibilities

• Identifying, qualifying, and securing business opportunities; coordinating business generation activities; developing

• customized, targeted sales strategies
• Building business relationships with current and potential clients
• Understanding client needs and offering solutions and support; answering potential client questions and follow-up call questions; responding to client requests for proposals (RFPs)
• Collaborating with sales and leadership to secure, retain, and grow accounts
• Creating informative presentations; presenting and delivering information to potential clients at client meetings, industry exhibits, trade shows, and conferences
• Creating and maintaining a list/database of prospect clients; maintaining a database (Salesforce, CRM, Excel, etc.) of prospective client information
• Cold calling; making multiple outbound calls to potential clients; closing sales and working with the client through the closing process
• Meeting all quotas for cold, active, inactive calls, appointments, and interviews; meeting or exceeding annual sales goals.
• Maintaining a pipeline of all sales administration using CRM software.
• Collaborating with management on sales goals, planning, and forecasting; maintaining short- and long-term business development plans

Requirements

• Degree in marketing, business administration, or similar.
• Extensive sales experience.
• Intuitive and insightful, particularly regarding human behavior.
• Ability to generate revenue by identifying pain points and suggesting suitable products or services.
• Professional yet affable disposition.
• Neat, well-groomed appearance.
• Great networking skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Resourceful, with outstanding research skills.
• Emboldened by challenges.

Nice to Have

Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel) and CRM/Salesforce experience, preferred

• Job ID: ZG#10025