Business Development Executive

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Job Title: Business Development Executive

Reports To: Commercial Head of Product Certification

Location: Sydney, Australia (Melbourne could also be considered)

The role:
This is an exciting career opportunity to play a pivotal role in continuing to develop BSI’s leading position in the Product Certification sector. As a Business Development Executive, you will primarily be responsible for selling BSI products and services to new and existing customers.

You’ll be identifying and managing sales opportunities, building an in-depth understanding of client business needs and drivers, to position how BSI products and services can enable organisations to improve and manage the sales process to a successful conclusion.

Key Accountabilities:

- Proactively network with existing customers to sell additional BSI products.
- Identify new prospects to grow the BSI customer base through targeted calls to generate sales revenue in line with new business targets.
- Execute BSI sales process to investigate, explore and understand customer needs in order to sell relevant products/services.
- Investigate relevant resource required and provide a timeline for delivery to meet customer order & solve any customer issues.
- Manage potential through account and opportunity management to develop solid pipeline. Produce accurate sales forecasts in a timely manner.
- Remain up to date with developments in the standards industry and be able explain the standards development process to customers.
- Refines sales message by gathering competitor information, prioritising threats, and identifying opportunities.
- Proposes up-selling opportunities using questioning strategies to understand customer and account need within territory. Able to provide a range of targeted solutions to the customer.
- Close the sales within a predetermined time frame by summarizing BSI product or service solution and gets customer to agree to price and delivery over the phone.
- Handle objections by anticipating customer concerns, by engaging with appropriate decision makers, proposes solutions and alternatives.

About you:

- You must be a strong influencer, with the ability to establish credibility across all levels of the business.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as good interpersonal skills is essential.
- Proven track record of significantly exceeding targets and expectations.
- Proven ability in closing business to business sales and winning new customers.
- Excellent negotiation and presentation skills.
- You’ll possess an entrepreneurial outlook and sound business development skills.
- Ability to successfully encourage the customers to expand product range.
- Ability to develop executive level relationships and engage with the customer to establish an understanding of their business drivers and how BSI can enable them to become more efficient.
- Able to communicate complex technical issues.
- Excellent organisational and problem-solving skills.
- Self-motivated and adaptable to be able to work with mínimal supervision.
- Clear understanding of modern selling techniques and ability to use them.
- Experience of working in a KPI driven environment.

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