SAS Partners - Manager - Sales & Business Development (1-3 yrs)

Business Development Manager is a newly created position reporting directly to the Director / Senior Management to support the Sales and Business Development initiatives;

The main missions would be:

- Analyse the market environment for professional services

- Conduct market research and data mining

- Identify business development opportunities and forecast sales targets

- Track and record activity on accounts and help to close deals to meet these targets

- Identify potential customers and the decision-makers within customers organizations

- Prospect, research, and build relationships with new customers

- Conduct competitive/market intelligence, technical benchmarking and convey feedback to the management

- Lead negotiations with customers about prices, payments, and contract conditions of services supplied

Prior experience of working with professional services firms is desirable.

Education: University degree in business, engineering, or other suitable education

- Negotiation and sales skills

- Networking at the senior management level

- Knowledge of budgeting and financial control

- Effective communication and presentation skills

- Highly trustful and reliable personality

- Team player, self-confident oriented

- Readiness to travel

- Written and spoken English (mandatory), French would be an advantage