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Business Development Manager Reviews
What is it like working as a Business Development Manager?
September 2016
Too much responsibility.
Business Development Manager:
Pros: It is a very stressful job. It requires height management skills.
Cons: Everything os bad about that position. Way too much responsibility.
August 2016
Business Development Manager:
Pros: Range of work activities.
Lots of contact with people and personalities.
Investigating opportunities for new markets is exciting.
Travelling to meet suppliers and customers.
Developing great new products.
Finding solutions for markets.
Recruiting great staff.
Unravelling legal issues.
Supporting a very busy, growing, successful company.
Great colleagues and customers.
Making the world a safer place.
Cons: Meeting obligations at times that are not in my best interest.
Trying to deal with negatively geared people.
July 2016
MARKET POTENTIAL.
Business Development Manager:
The market potential is as large as you are prepared to develop. AKS is renowned in the market for its market position and for delivering consistent quality solutions.
July 2016
Follow up it is the secret ingredient.
Business Development Manager:
The key to business development is to really focus on a niche, area or type of customer you want, research and find who matches that persona and the start the process of engagement.
It takes time, but the secret is to continuously follow up, stay in contact and eventually the right type of customer will need your service or product and you should be top of mind in the relationship built.
July 2016
Business Development Manager:
• Strategic vision, Customer Relationship Management.
• Sales and Negotiation, Coaching and Empowerment, Communication and Team spirit.
• Priority and Time Management, Cross –functional effectiveness.
• Budgeting and controlling.
• High expertise in Sales and Marketing, Brand Building and Activation. New Product Launch, Managing 4Ps . Marketing Strategy Building and Budgeting Key Accounts, Modern Trade, Business Development , Van Sales Operations.
• Experience with strategies in line with Sales and Marketing for Retail and Distribution and Trade Marketing Developments.
• Wide Network experience in Channel development with high impact and growth oriented demonstrating capabilities.
June 2016
Difficuilty of securing new clients.
Business Development Manager:
Learn Local Lauguage and Culture.
June 2016
Fun and challenging working in biz dev.
Business Development Manager:
Pros: Meet a lot of interesting individuals and work with many different teams on various projects in various industries. No two days are the same for me.
Cons: It is challenging to consistently develop new business, sometimes you deal with rude people.
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