TRAFFIC
KwaZulu-Natal
Business Development Consultant - Pietermaritzburg
Bidvest Prestige
Job Description
ROLE PURPOSE 
To contribute to the process of refining and enhancing, on an ongoing basis, the current and future sales and marketing strategy.
MAIN OUTPUTS Sales- Actively search, pursue and engage potential clients
- Knowledge of existing contracts and weekly meetings with Regions General Manager & Operations Manager
- Manage the compilation, and where necessary draft, high quality proposals, bids and tender responses
- Follow-up and survey leads generated through various channels and cold calling
- Ensure tenders and bids are responded to in a professional, timely and compliant manner.
- Engage and manage strategic suppliers who are providing solution and commercial content for proposals, bids and tender responses
- Identify weaknesses in sales process and address
- Follow-up on cancelled contracts
- Implement and manage strategic initiatives to ensure that annual growth targets are met and ideally exceeded to increase the company's market share
- Achieve Monthly Sales Budgets by implementing and maintaining a marketing and sales strategy.
- Identifying new growth opportunities by market segments
- Using the full marketing mix for the company's marketing communications
- Promote sister companies - Steiner Hygiene, TopTurf, etc.
- Provide a comprehensive sales and marketing report on a weekly and monthly basis
The Applicant must meet the following requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree/National Diploma in Sales/Business Development/Marketing
- Matric (Senior Certificate)
- Valid Driver's License
- Own vehicle
- Min 3 Years' Solid Experience In Business Development & Best Practices within the Sales Environment
- Strong Sales & Marketing Knowledge (Ideally In The Services Industry)
- MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, MS Outlook
- Ability & Desire To Sell
- Result Oriented
- Attention To Detail
- Stress Tolerant
- Excellent Written Communication
- Team Leadership
- People & Task Orientated
- Assertiveness
- Action Orientated
- Customer/Client Focused
- Negotiation Skills
- Interactive Reasoning
- Planning & Scheduling
- Teamwork
- Relationship Building
- Good Listening Skills
- Excellent Oral Communication
- Creative & Innovative
About This Role
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Salary Benchmark
$99,410/year
Source: O*NET (USD)
Job Outlook
This career will grow rapidly in the next few years.
Key Skills for This Role
Active Listening
Critical Thinking
Reading Comprehension
Complex Problem Solving
Judgment and Decision Making
Common Technologies
Apache Tomcat 10
Angular 17
ASP.NET Core 8.0
Airtable
Blackboard Learn Ultra
MySQL 8.0
Apache Kafka
Apache Maven
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Job Outlook
This career will grow rapidly in the next few years.