Senior Business Development Executive

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Purpose of Position

The Business Development Manager is primarily responsible for selling BSI products and services to new and existing customers across a defined BSI product suite. This role is responsible for identifying and managing sales opportunities, building an in-depth understanding of client business needs and drivers, to position how BSI products and services can enable organizations to improve and manage the sales process to a successful conclusion.

Key Responsibilities

Sales Process

• Proactively network with existing customers to sell additional BSI products.
• Identify new prospects to grow the BSI customer base through targeted calls to generate sales revenue in line with new business targets.
• Execute BSI sales process to investigate, explore and understand customer needs in order to sell relevant products/services.
• Investigate relevant resources required and provide a timeline for delivery to meet customer orders & solve any customer issues.
• Routinely review sales activity and quality KPIs, based on sales ratios to plan future sales activities to deliver on financial and activity targets.
  
  
  

Sales Tools

• Manage potential through account and opportunity management to develop a solid pipeline. Produce accurate sales forecasts in a timely manner.
• Effective use of price books and tools to propose main products and services.
• Use relevant sales/product collateral to illustrate how a range of BSI products meets identified customer needs.
• Accurately and effectively applies standard, commoditized, T&Cs.
• Accurately record sales and order information in the CRM.
  
  
  

Product Knowledge

• Remain up to date with developments in the standards industry and be able to explain the standards development process to customers.
• Able to apply product features and benefits to customers’ needs in order to win business.
• Able to apply knowledge of competitors to explain the full business advantages of BSI products.
  
  
  

Sales Skills

• Possess a deeper and wider knowledge of the products/services of BSI and their application to specific customer sets. Use reporting function of sales tools to aid account management and new business development.
• Strong telephone communication with customers. Ability to create effective proposals and produce presentations to customers.
• Accurately define requirements, including buying process, budget, positioning vs competition, and actual circumstances which positively affect potential sales. Ability to identify further and future opportunities.
• Able to question effectively to gain a deeper understanding of customer needs to identify up-selling opportunities. Able to provide a range of targeted solutions to the customer.
• Accurately summarize customer needs. Identify BSI products or services. Get customer agreement to price and delivery.
• Ability to handle objections. Use knowledge and experience to provide an answer. Gain customer commitment before progressing. Identify high-impact issues for customers, and give up on those with a low value to BSI. Ensure understanding of business and personal value of BSI product/service to the customer.
  
  
  

Sales Management

• Able to plan on a short-term basis (1-3 months) to achieve immediate performance goals.
• Ensure the area of responsibility is delivering to plan. Identify & propose changes/solutions to drive & increase targeted delivery.
  
  
  

Candidate specifications

• Experience in running a commercial business unit, including P&L responsibility, preferably in commercial events/training/publishing or related
• Commercial understanding and experience in working with the marketing function, including an appreciation of campaign planning and execution through multiple channels
• Commercial understanding and experience of the sales function, preferably both telesales and field sales
• Good influencing / transverse management skills
• Good verbal and written communication skills and an eye for detail
• Be self-motivated, and flexible, and have excellent time management/planning skills.
• Able to work under pressure.
• Willing to travel on business intensively.
• An enthusiastic and committed team player
• Well presented with good public speaking
• Business development skills will be considered advantageous.
  
  
  

Our Excellence Behaviours: Client-centric, Agile, Collaborative. These three behaviours represent how we do things at BSI. They help us ensure that BSI is a great place to work and a highly successful business.

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