Business Development Manager

Business Development Manager

Job Type Full Time Qualification

Experience

• Location Nigeria

• Job Field Sales and Business Development

• We are currently looking for Business Development Manager on a full-time permanent basis.

• This position sits within the Business Development team, based in our Lagos, Nigeria office.

• The Business Development Manager is accountable for managing the ACCA business in the Lagos & West region, building and developing commercial relationships with stakeholders to build ACCA’s brand and reputation, deepen our engagement and further ACCA strategic and growth objectives.

• The Job

Reporting to the Lead Business Development Manager, on a day-to-day basis, you’ll be involved in the following:

• Developing plans and execution framework for partners and stakeholders engagement within the Lagos/West region and contribute to business development plan for the market.

• Lead, inspire and motivate team by role modelling the ACCA behaviours, building employee engagement, promoting diversity and inclusion and effective performance and development support, deliver consistent sustainable business results.

• Contribute to the identification and implementation of opportunities to grow ACCA’s business through employer, University, secondary school and other partnerships ensuring a clear and mutually beneficial proposition

• Own, monitors and drives the achievement of key performance indicators and outcomes for the Lagos/West region, aligning product and channel plans.

• Build strong engagement and partnership plans for public sector, government and key regulatory organizations

• Develop new and existing revenue streams with employers to maximise opportunities and grow ACCA’s business

• Work with partners to ensure global solutions, content and expertise are leveraged and consistently implemented within the market

• Work with colleagues from other specialist teams to make high value connections between partners and optimise the ACCA ecosystem

• Reports regularly on progress through the appropriate reporting mechanisms on agreed KPIs and outcomes linked to the balanced scorecard.

• The Person

We are looking for someone who has:

• Demonstrable experience in business development and relationship management ideally in an education environment

• Demonstrable commercial acumen with experience across sales, brand management and marketing in B2B and B2B2C environment

• Good understanding of public sector and government relationship management

• In depth understanding of the financial education and skills landscape

• Ability to lead and inspire a community of business relationships employees

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build long term, high quality, trusted relationships up to and including board level

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and oral

• Excellent networking, influencing and negotiation skills

• Highly motivated, proactive and enthusiastic with the ability to plan and organise work to meet stretching targets

• A global perspective – experience of working in or with an international organisation.

• Our benefits

• We strive to create an environment where you can prioritise your wellbeing and so have designed our benefits to give you the power to do so.

• Our core benefits include medical cover, life assurance and long term disability cover.

• We provide an employee assistance programme and are proud to offer a financial wellbeing tool called Nudge, to our employees.