Business Development Principal (BDP) needed at Vodafone Global Enterprise

Your responsibilities will include:

Sales and Stakeholder Management

• Manage the entire sales process, including prospecting, qualifying, proposing, negotiating and closing opportunities
• Cultivate credible long-term relationships with prospects and customers to encourage repeat business
• Achieve and exceed assigned sales revenue targets
• Maintain comprehensive, accurate and timely records of contact and opportunity information
• Identify and develop new accounts while expanding business within existing accounts
• Implement comprehensive channel and partner strategy with multipoint lead generation to maximize outreach 
• Leverage existing networks and alliances to uncover additional sales opportunities
• Provide accurate forecasts for business deals to be closed
• Drive new business initiatives that encompass all product and solutions service offerings.

Reporting

• Assesses customer and market trends and provides timely and accurate revenue forecasting.
• Prepare monthly/ Weekly Run Rate and Demand Management
• Perform Sales Analysis by product
• Annual Sales Strategy & Budget Planning
• Prepare regular reports of progress and forecasts to internal and external stakeholders using key account metrics.
• Forecast and track key account metrics
• Prepare reports on account status, give recommendations to maximize sales as per the identifying trends, gaps and opportunities. (Strategic Account Plan / Joint Account Planning)
• Regular Revenue Assurance to ensure all customer’s global revenues from all it’s subsidiaries are correctly reported

The ideal candidate for this role will have:

• B Degree/Equivalent 
• A Post Graduate Degree advantageous
• A minimum of 5 years’ work experience in a Sales and Service experience in the telecommunications or technology related environments e.g. (ICT) with demonstrated experience in:
• Portfolio management
• Ability to increase NPS results and reduce administrative expense
• Ability to build relationships 
• A valid Driver’s License