Business Development Specialist

Full-time/Part-time/Internship Business Development London, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

As a business development specialist, you'll need to:

• Research and identify new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets.
• Seek out the appropriate contact in an organisation.
• Generate leads and cold call prospective customers.
• Meet with customers/clients face to face or over the phone.
• Foster and develop relationships with customers/clients.
• 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.
• Draw up client contracts - depending on the size of the company, this task may be completed by someone else or agreements may not be as formal.
• Have a good understanding of the business's products or services and be able to advise others about them; help to plan sales campaigns.
• Negotiate pricing with customers, and suppliers in some cases.
• Increase sales of the business.
• Carry out sales forecasts and analysis and present your findings to senior management/the board of directors; develop the business sales and marketing strategy.

You will need to have:

• The ability and desire to sell.
• Resilience and the ability to cope with rejection.