Business Development Officer Job in Lagos at Cloud Interactive Associates

Cloud Interactive Associates aims to be the Pan African and Global Leader in delivering the technology behind mobile advertising and mobile marketing. At Cloud we can assist you in
generating new revenues from your extensive messaging infrastructure and help you to develop multi-channel delivery capabilities on your network, portals and devices. Talking the same language as your customers and at the right time is the key to their happiness. And as we all know, happy customers make for happy clients.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Business Development Officer

Location: Lagos

Job Description

• Assist the business development manager in generating new business with key partners (e.g. mobile network operators) through targeted value propositions.
• Own the overall responsibility of market trends analysis to identify potential threats, areas of opportunity, competitor’s strategy to decide the next logical move(s) in business.
• Provide professional business solution to the business development manager according to survey and analysis result in local market.
• Work with the business development manager to close deals with Vendors / Operators and B2B, B2C clients to ensure product quality is in line with the demand.
• Work with the business development manager to drive and develop business strategic goals through the application of research, market & business insights.
• Assist the business development manager in designing the road map and manage the work flow process of each project where it relates to technical, business and legal matters.
• Support the business development manager in the roll out of all projects including developing policies and procedures as they pertain to strategic partnerships.
• Develop service agreements and terms of reference for clients and service providers: Oversee the preparation of commercial documents including business proposals, contracts and NDAs.
• Meet with customer marketing department to discuss on strategic level to influence their business requirement / strategy/ RFP and decision making to increase cloud interactive associate’s winning ratio.
• Maintain effective external interface with business and technology partners, government agencies and commercial professional bodies.
• Responsible for developing relationship strategically focusing on the Operators, 3rd Party, Solution Provider and Content Providers.
• Work with the business development manager to implement the strategic partner relationship tactic with the Operators, 3rd Party, Solution Providers and Content Providers for VAS Solution.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the managers.

• Collaboration Skills
• Negotiation and Persuasion skills
• Project Management Skills
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written and be able to cold call potential clients with confidence.
• Skilled at agreeing and closing deals with clients.
• Excellent organisational skills are essential as well as performance monitoring will be a requirement.
• Computer Skills
• Business Intelligence
• Analytical skills
• Strong research and strategic analysis skills.