Key Accounts and Business Development Manager job at BURN
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Vacancy title:
Key Accounts and Business Development Manager

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Energy , Category: Sales & Retail ]

Jobs at:

BURN

Deadline of this Job:
13 April 2023  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, March 28, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Primary Responsibilities:
• P&L Responsibility: Maintain a yearly business plan that includes budgeting, P&L, and sales operations programs for improving the profitability of the company.
• New Business Development: Identify and develop new partnerships that align with BURN’s company strategy. Present and pitch to external parties. When required, represent BURN at conferences and events in Kenya and abroad.
• Strategic Projects/Initiatives: Assist the Commercial team in the planning, implementation, and tracking of strategic projects and initiatives across several geographical markets.
• Collaboration: Act as a go-between with BURN’s senior management, commercial, carbon, and special project/grants teams.
• Key Account Management:
• Information Gathering: Gather critical market information on the clean cooking sector, carbon offsetting market, BURN’s distribution partners, competitor activity, aid and development industries, and other key areas of the sector.
• Pitch Material Design & Development: Work with BURN’s marketing team, design and develop effective project and partnership proposals, such as company and product overviews, product comparisons, and distribution proposals. Own these materials, track them and update accordingly. These materials will effectively help the company secure multi-million-dollar partnerships and projects.
• Reporting/Forecasting: Produce regular analytical reports and ad-hoc research papers on key partnerships, business development updates, and market landscape, as well as monthly forecasting and reporting for distribution activities

Skills and Experience
• 5 years of Senior-level sales experience
• University Degree in Business Management, Development Studies, or related fields. MBA is a plus.
• Proven B2B sales, route-to-market, supply chain, and new business development experience
• Ability to produce and present professional strategy, reports, accurate forecasts, and channel sales plans.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English; French would be an added advantage
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with an ability to engage partners at all levels including senior government officials; high level of comfort making cold calls to prospective partners
• Strong cross-cultural skills and versatility in dealing with different types of partnerships.
• At least 3 years of professional experience in relationship management/partnership development, preferably across the energy, aid, development, and carbon industries; proven record in growing such partnerships
• Demonstrated success and achievements in new business development; proven record in identifying and onboarding new partnerships that helped a company achieve its strategic goals
• Experience working across a range of geographical markets.
• Ability to carry out excellent strategic research on a diverse range of subjects.
• Ability to design professional, comprehensive, and winning partnership/project proposals
• Enthusiastic, entrepreneurial, a desire to ‘sell for good’.
• Sales, marketing, and new business development experience with consumer durable goods in last-mile, bottom-of-the-pyramid communities
• Knowledge and experience of the realities of clean cooking and other development issues, donor institutions, and carbon offsetting market
• Strong analytic/number-crunching background, specifically in sales and marketing data
• Network of business contacts in the aid, development, and carbon industries
• Be able to adapt to a highly variable environment, and easily change the scope and focus.


Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Sales jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 13 April 2023
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 30-03-2023
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 30-03-2023
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 30-03-2067
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