Business Development Officer

We are searching for an innovative, well-organized Business Development Officer/Executive, Freelancers’ Team Leader & ASM to join our company’s Eastern Zone Branch. Your role as a Business Development Officer/Executive, Freelancers’ Team Leader & ASM is to promote/pitch our client products and services to individuals, businesses and government organisations. It may be domestic (within their respective hometown), nearby cities/districts, or a combination of both.

As well as approaching potential customers with the aim of winning new business for the clients, you'll strive to maintain good relationships with customer, gaining repeat business wherever possible.

Types of Business Development Officer/Executive, Freelancers’ Team Leader
Also known as sales representatives, sales consultants, territory managers or business development representatives, sales executives, freelancing executives usually operate within one of two main categories of sales/marketing:
• Business to Business (B2B)
• Business to Customer or Consumer (B2C).

Responsibilities
As a Business Development Officer/Executive, Freelancers’ Team Leader your duties will differ if you're working in B2B or B2C promotion.
In B2B promotion, you'll need to:
• build good working relationships
• understand the needs of your business customers
• research the market and related products
• present the product or service favourably and in a structured professional way face-to-face.
In B2C promotion, your responsibilities include:
• listen to customer requirements and present appropriately to make a promotion/pitch the product accordingly
• maintain and develop relationships with existing customers in person and via telephone calls and emails
• cold call to arrange meetings with potential customers to prospect for new business
• respond to incoming email and phone enquiries
• act as a contact between a company and its existing and potential markets
• negotiate the terms of an agreement and close sales
• gather market and customer information
• challenge any objections with a view to getting the customer to buy
• advise on forthcoming product developments and discuss special promotions
• make accurate, rapid cost calculations and providing customers with quotations.
For both roles, you'll be required to:
• negotiate on specifications with customer and managers
• record customer and order information, sharing copies on google form, or entering figures into an online system
• represent the company at events and demonstrations
• feed future buying trends back to employers
• review your own business performance, aiming to meet or exceed targets
• attend team meetings and share best practice with colleagues.