Summary
Date Posted: Friday, October 15, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Purpose of the Job
This position is based in Nairobi. The holder of this job will be an important face of the business in forging new partnerships and deepening the relations with the current partners. S/he will be responsible for onboarding new partners, managing partner relations, developing new products as well as growing the product user base.
The Business Development Executive will report to the Business Development Manager – Kenya OpCo.

Key Deliverables
• Identifying potential partnerships, creating sales pitches, and following up on new partnership leads.
• Developing and maintain a strong understanding and knowledge of all products and services offered by Asante Financial Services and innovate new ways to collaborate and create new products for partners onboarded.
• Grow product uptake by acquiring new clients by implementing active direct selling, strategic collaboration with partners as well as with internal marketing and customer engagement departments.
• Maintaining meaningful and beneficial relationships with onboarded clients to ensure that they are retained.
• Create new products and improve on existing products for partnerships onboarded.
• Do regular market research and produce research reports for use by the business.
• Support the function’s goals for the company’s results from both an operational and financial perspective working closely with other cross-functional team members

Decision making
Shared: Decisions reached jointly with peers on a collective basis
• New Partnerships
• New Products and pricing /Product Changes
Contributory: Makes contributions to a decision or policy judgment reached by others;
Credit Scoring parameters

Key competencies
• A result-oriented person with an entrepreneurial mindset
• Diligent, honest, self-motivated, and self-driven person
• Critical thinker, attention to detail and problem solver
• Excellent interpersonal, public speaking and communication skills
• Demonstrable competency in business development
• Strong multitasking and time management skills.
• Working knowledge of data analysis and performance/operation metrics

Educational Level
Minimum of bachelor’s degree in business or related field from an accredited university

Working Experience
• 3+ Years working experience as a Business Development Executive or
• 3+ Years’ working experience in sales and marketing.
• Demonstratable and proven sales results

Impact of position on:
(i) Customer satisfaction – wide product range, customer journey and product pricing
(ii) Revenue – Increased revenues and array of product offering and optimal pricing
(iii) Budget – Planning and realization of set targets for self and function
Asante is an equal opportunity employer.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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Job application procedure
Send your application to humanresource@asantefinancegroup.com and indicate Business Development Executive on the subject of your email.
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