The Senior Business Development Associate is responsible for new business acquisition, and onboarding of merchants.
He/She will be responsible for generating, qualifying, nurturing and closing potential leads for the various services that Ninja Van Singapore provides. During the onboarding period, the incumbent will also be expected to resolve all issues that may arise from client’s unfamiliarity of our services.
Responsibilities
- New Business Acquisition
- Schedule meetings with potential prospects to understand service requirements of clients
- Acquire new clients to increase country revenue
- Pitch operational requests to internal stakeholders to help meet clients’ requirements and SLAs
- Prepare sales proposals, presentation decks, profitability analysis and contract documents
- Compliance to sales process and legal compliance
- Educate clients on the basic requirements of Ninja Van’s service
- Lead Generation and Qualification
- Creatively seek and reach out to key decision makers of potential leads
- Respond to and qualify inbound leads in a timely manner
- Import and maintain data of leads in Salesforce CRM
- Ensure that clients’ business is a good fit for Ninja Van
- Account Management
- Build and maintain positive working relationships and strong rapport with accounts for high account retention and client satisfaction
- Identify ways to increase sales revenue and wallet shares with existing accounts
- Monitor and ensure promised delivery SLAs are met
- Stakeholder Management
- Collaborate with external and internal operations teams to ensure required resources and operational support is available to them and their team
Requirements
- 2 - 5 years of experience in a business development and client-facing role
- Diploma in any field or higher, Degree preferred
- Experienced in sales negotiation, analysing pricing strategies and solutioning
- Experience with end-to-end sales pipeline management and closing large, strategic deals
- Manage enquiries and complaints with tact and professionalism
- Good team player with ability to interact with all levels
- Proactive, curious and entrepreneurial
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
