Business Development Officer Recruitment at Luxus Foods Limited

Luxus Foods Limited, is currently recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Business Development Officer
Location: Lagos

Requirements/Qualifications

• A degree that is applicable to the role; business development, business management, accountancy, economics, law and international relations
• Work experience: 2 years

Skills:

• You’ll need to have:
  • Good networking skills
  • The ability to think strategically
  • The ability to analyse sales figures and write reports
  • Initiative and the confidence to start things from scratch
  • The ability to speak multiple local languages is an asset when dealing with diverse clients.
  • Tenacity and drive to seek new business and meet or exceed targets
  • An excellent telephone manner for making initial contact and for ongoing communication with customers and business associates
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills – needed for communicating with a wide range of people, both internally and externally
  • Good IT skills, including the use of spreadsheets
  • A professional manner and presentable appearance for meeting customers/clients
  • Initiative and good decision-making skills
  • Project management skills
  • The ability to motivate yourself and set your own goals
  • Great organisational skills

Job Description/Responsibilities

• Seek ways of improving the way the business operates
• Attend seminars, conferences and events where appropriate
• Keep abreast of trends and changes in the business world
• Help to plan sales campaigns
• Create a sales pipeline
• Negotiate pricing with customers, and suppliers in some cases in line with company policies
• Carry out sales forecasts and analysis and present your findings to the MD.
• Identify new business opportunities – including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, products and services
• Seek out the appropriate contact in an organisation
• Generate leads and call prospective B2B customers
• Handle social media pages
• Understand the needs of your customers and be able to respond effectively with a plan of how to meet these.
• Think strategically – seeing the bigger picture and setting aims and objectives in order to develop and improve the business
• Work strategically – carrying out necessary planning in order to implement operational changes
• Have a good understanding of the businesses’ products or services and be able to advise others about them
• Ensure staff are on board throughout the organisation, and understand the need for change and what is required of them
• Discuss promotional strategy and activities with the MD

What To Expect

• It can be stressful trying to create new business opportunities, in addition to the constant pressure of meeting or exceeding targets.
• Business development is quite a creative role and can be very satisfying but this is accompanied with challenging aspects.
• You may have the responsibility of managing a team and their output.
• You’ll frequently travel within the day for face-to-face meetings with customers and other business partners. Depending on the type of business, overnight or out of state travel may also be required.
• You’ll be expected to dress smartly, especially for meetings, though slightly more relaxed business casual attire may be acceptable at other times.

Working hours:

• You’ll usually work a regular 8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday week, though you may on occasion have to work longer to meet a project deadline or when attending an event or conference.

Salary/Benefits

• Your starting salary as a graduate business development officer will be in the region of 50,000 – N70,000 monthly.
• Salary is based on experience and portfolio.
• It’s common for bonuses to be paid. Other benefits may include a pension and healthcare scheme membership.
• Income figures are intended as a guide only.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV’s to: snackattackng@gmail.com

Application Deadline 22nd October, 2018.