Job For Business Development Manager at Invent Alliance Limited,17th August, 2018

Invent Alliance Limited is a company specialized on creation of multi sector and multi discipline business platform with specialist partnerships for value co-creation in each of the different business segments through modern co-petition business principles. We are recruiting to fill the position below:     Job Title: Business Development Manager (Bakery Products) Location: Lagos Summary

• The Business Development Manager will be primarily responsible for managing the vision, strategy and implementation of a strategic plan for the execution of the bakery marketing, sales and growth plan.

• Manage customers by overcoming resistance, building trust and with regular follow up to close more sales.
• Maintaining the current and developing sales with existing customers.
• Contributing to and preparing the business plan and executing them properly towards the economical and financial progress of the company.
• Establishing a structure/team that will support the expected growth rate of the business.
• Work with company’s internal team, marketing staff, and other managers in order to increase sales opportunities and to maximize the revenue of the company.
• Work for the improvement of the company's market position and achieve financial growth of the company.
• Establishing strong relationship with existing and prospective customers.
• Constantly analyzing the market and trends to find new growth opportunities.
• Creating new sales and bringing new key accounts in order to gain market share.
• Define long-term organizational strategic goals, build key customer relationships, identify business opportunities, negotiate and close business deals and maintain extensive knowledge of current market conditions.
• Identifying business and products gap and consequently introducing solutions and measures to breach those gaps.

• Minimum of HND/B.Sc in any discipline.
• Minimum of 2 years' experience in business development of a bakery or similar position.
• Previous experience in a bread bakery.

• Good business acumen.
• Excellent relationship building and people management skills.
• Excellent negotiation skills.
• Good customer relationship and project management skills.

• Sales and Margins
• Customer expansion
• Product Range expansion
• Geographical expansion