Monday, May 6, 2013

Oil & Gas Business Development Executive Role- Nigeria


Job description
The Oil & Gas Business Development executive will be responsible for identifying new business opportunities for the company while ensuring that the fundamentals of the sales profession are adhered to. He will make offers to customers mindful of the potential gains and face up to competition in order to develop company’s market shares in an increasingly competitive & monopolistic market. The position covers the whole country.

He reports to the Senior Marketing Manager.





Responsibilities

The responsibilities for this office shall include but is not limited to the following:

Developing a regional market

  • Keep a file on prospective customers based on general information. Be positioned with known subscribers
  • Classify files (Manage network of subscribers: obtain information on subscribers and find new partners
  • Widen scope of prospective customers and influence the commercial strategy of subscribers
  • Find new axes for widening range of subscribers. Conclude regional and national partnership agreements (if possible)

Commercial Action Plans

  • Ensure implementation of the regional marketing plan in accordance with national strategic plans. 
  • Take initiatives in mailing, trade fairs, round table conferences.
  • Ensure there is coherence within the region. 
  • Propose an optimization of sales resources / development for better regional membership and efficiency. 
  • Review action plan based on the probabilities of success 
  • Encourage regional orientation.

New Business: Bids

  • Identify business opportunities and try them.                                         
  • Execute standard bids and conclusive trials within the framework of agreements. Create an autonomous framework for standard applications.  Be present at all new businesses.
  • Identify and develop new applications. Ensure multiple trials are carried out. Infiltrate competitive customers.
  • Execute bids on all types of applications. Create an offer that is more than customer account.
  • Create radically innovative value added offers.

New Businesses: Negotiations

  • Make proposals based on the standard bid and draw from available expertise in the sector and conclude contracts on some standard businesses and start them.
  • Prepare strong negotiation points. Be involved in all customer proceedings and in starting operations.
  • Optimise trials, make adjustments and finalise trials as quickly as possible and find solutions to challenges.
  • Identify new forms of partnerships and new trends in the market

Relationship with current and prospective customers

  • Know the main enterprises in your market and territory as well as customer operational processes. Be a listening ear to the customer
  • Be close to decision makers. Estimate the vulnerability of gains (strengths, weakness, competition)
  • Be recognized for your expertise, adopted and called upon for advice.  Train customers on new products/applications
  • Be  knowledgeable to the point of being an authority in customer procedures

Building of customer loyalty            

  • Ensure that customers are served in accordance with company’s commitment 
  • Initiate exchange of information at all levels and orientate entire organization towards customer satisfaction
  • Develop a spirit of HSE and seek to attain optimal quality with available means.              
  • Ensure that preventive and corrective measures are put in place for each customer complaint in  your market segment
  • Know and monitor customers in your portfolio. Master their organization and understand their processes and expectations. 
  • Identify the channels of decision making and the factors of influence. 
  • Develop partnerships that enable you to explore for new business opportunities. 
  • Analyse  threats from competitors and identify important targets that reinforce customer loyalty. 
  • Measure level of customer satisfaction and find ways to improve upon it.

Relationship with group entities

  • Network and establish good contacts. 
  • Coordinate and activate your market. Be known for your  ability to sell action plans, for project coordination and training on applications as well as customer processes 
  • Influence, initiate and coordinate internal energies






Qualifications et experience

  • B.Sc/HND in an Engineering course
  • 3-5 years’ experience in a commercial function
  • Must have good knowledge of marketing & efficient sales techniques
  • Must know how to handle project management and feasibility study
  • Must have good negotiation skills
  • Should know how to formulate and monitor budgets and elaboration of commercial bids
  • Must have good understanding of application of gas and materials for operating gas
  • Must be creative and innovative
  • Must have passion & enthusiasm for work
  • High proficiency in MS Office applications
  • Result oriented and outgoing

 

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