We are looking for a talented and highly organised Business Development Manager (BDM) who will be responsible for forging effective relationships with brands, media-, creative-, digital-, and PR agencies in the whole African region.
Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to, building a high-performance and strategic business development, and handling the offering of the indaHash platform to the highest levels of clients and agencies in the FMCG, entertainment and many other segments.
If you feel ready to join a fresh start-up company with a proven business model, we would love to invite you to work with indaHash.
We are looking for a BDM who has: understanding of market targets and budgets, media industry, and new business development a proven track record of existing client and media agency relationships Ability to hit the road running and show an early impact on the business ability to nourish fruitful relationships, and to set up meetings with decision-makers within a limited timeframe proven strategies and experience to attract clients successfully and the ability to negotiate to close business deals swiftly strong experience with digital culture, and knowledge of trends and innovation in the digital ecosystem (Social Media/Media/Advertising/Digital) 3-4 years of experience in media sales /creative agency (ideal but not necessary) excellent organisational skills, with an emphasis on priorities and goal-setting Your responsibilities: possess a strong understanding of our products, our competition in the industry and our positioning keeping up-to-date with social media trends maintaining relationships with current clients implementing strategies for winning new clients developing a sales pipeline which converts to revenue and targets Being a thought leader and strategist to your clients shaping together with your team the biggest influencer marketing platform in the Africa region planning approaches and pitches establish and nurture cooperation with NGOs to enhance our social impact and corporate responsibility initiatives.
A character that we are looking for: a natural hustler who wants the opportunity to work for a fast-growing international startup focused on the hottest marketing space of recent times has previously added incremental revenues to their accounts at a media agency or marketing services company by thinking differently is well-known and respected within the agency, advertising, and marketing communities is an early adopter of social media and is a practitioner of the various platforms is an activator who is impatient and keen to take action, decisive and courageous is an exceptional communicator – clear, consistent and persuasive disciplined, highly organised and self-motivated is able to thrive under pressure In return, we offer: competitive salary (base salary + commission based on performance in hand) lots of independence and trust work in an awesome, engaged, dynamic and super-friendly team improvement, training, self-development, and mentorship (you can learn as much as you want!)
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