Job description
Drive Business growth and innovation with CID, Join Our Team as a Business Development Associate if you can :
- Generate and validate leads with private sector clients
- Build and develop a pipeline of business development opportunities with private sector clients
- Pitch CID’s corporate Practice areas and services to Clients, primarily focused on executive and middle management
- Gain in-depth understanding of client needs and develop detailed and thorough briefing of required scope/intervention
- Manage the business development process from lead generation and validation, technical scoping and financial quotation, to contract negotiation and closure
- Build partnerships to allow CID to expand its service offerings
- Work closely with practice leads in CID to design winning solutions that address Client needs/pain points and provide a clear value-for-money
- Build and maintain long-lasting and effective relationships with Clients, consultants, partners, and key stakeholders
- Structure and negotiate commercial terms of the projects with Clients
- Work closely with project teams to assess implementation, ensuring consistent feedback and service development
- Research and propose service innovation to meet market needs
Requirements
- 5-8 years of experience in consultative selling or marketing in a B2B environment, including but not limited to: account management in a marketing agency; strategy and/or management consulting; business development, or solution architects in IT services.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Political Science, or relevant degrees
- Demonstrated experience presenting and pitching confidently to C-suite and middle management audiences.
- Proven track record of nurturing long-lasting client and stakeholder relationships.
- Demonstrated ability to build and grow a strong network of clients, consultants, and partners.
- Proven experience building external partnerships that expand the organization's service offerings.
- Critical thinking and problem solving abilities
- Ability to draft and develop professional documents and presentations
- Perfect command of spoken and written English and Arabic