Business Development Executive jobs in Lucknow at HMS KIDS

As a business development executive, you'll be concerned with improving and growing a business, by fostering and developing relationships with customers, suppliers, and other partners.
You may work to improve profitability through careful strategic planning and positioning in the appropriate markets or to enhance the operation of the business, position or reputation in some way.
You may have a single role in the organization.
Your work will often reach across all areas of the business.
As our organization deals in Education-lines, you have to explore business in_ franchise and investment development, all over India.

Alternatively, you may work across many different businesses, but with a specific focus on either:

B2B (business to business)
B2C (business to consumer)

Responsibilities and Duties

As a business development Executives, you'll need to:

identify new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, products and services
seek out the appropriate contact in an organization
generate leads and cold call prospective customers
meet with customers/clients face to face or over the phone
understand the needs of your customers and be able to respond effectively with a plan of how to meet these
think strategically - seeing the bigger picture and setting aims and objectives in order to develop and improve the business
work strategically - carrying out necessary planning in order to implement operational changes
draw up client contracts - depending on the size of the company, this task may be completed by someone else or agreements may not be as formal
have a good understanding of the businesses' products or services and be able to advise others about them.

discuss the promotional strategy and activities with the marketing department.

Our business development role is more sales orientated, you may also do some or all of the following:

help to plan sales campaigns
create a sales pipeline
negotiate to price with customers, and suppliers in some cases
carry out sales forecasts and analysis and present your findings to senior management.

You'll usually work a regular 10 am to 6 pm, Monday to saturday week, though you may on occasion have to work longer to meet a project deadline or when attending an event or conference.

Flexible working may be possible.

It can be stressful trying to create new business opportunities, in addition to the constant pressure of meeting or exceeding targets.
Business development is quite a creative role and can be very satisfying but this is accompanied by challenging aspects.
You may have the responsibility of managing a team and their output.
You'll frequently travel within the day for face-to-face meetings with customers and other business partners. Depending on the type of business, overnight or overseas travel may also be required.
You'll be expected to dress smartly, especially for meetings, though slightly more relaxed business casual attire may be acceptable at other times.

Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications

Degrees in business development or business management are the most relevant for this career,
A graduate degree in Marketing a requirement for this career.

Skills

You'll need to have:

tenacity and drive to seek new business and meet or exceed targets
an excellent telephone manner for making initial contact and for ongoing communication with customers and business associates
excellent written and verbal communication skills - needed for communicating with a wide range of people, both internally and externally
good IT skills, including the use of spreadsheets
a professional manner and presentable appearance for meeting customers/clients
initiative and good decision-making skills
project management skills
the ability to motivate yourself and set your own goals
great organizational skills
good networking skills
the ability to think strategically
the ability to analyze sales figures and write reports
initiative and the confidence to start things from scratch
the ability to speak a foreign language may be an asset if you're dealing with overseas clients.
A full driving license is a requirement for many roles
Work experience is really important and can in some cases lead to permanent employment.
At least, 0 to 1 years work experience should be there.