Business Development Lead

With offices in Australia, Canada, USA, South America, Southern Africa, Ghana and the Philippines, Lycopodium proudly delivers high quality professional engineering and project delivery services globally, across the resources, infrastructure and industrial processes sectors. By joining our global team and learning from renowned subject matter experts, we can offer you a diverse career that could take you anywhere in the world.

Lycopodium is currently recruiting for a Business Development Lead to join our growing team in Brisbane.

Reporting to the General Manager, the Business Development Lead will be accountable for the development, management and delivery of the new business pipeline of studies and projects, pre-contracts negotiations, maintenance of existing business relationships and initiation of new business relationships in line with the company's objectives and strategic targets.

The Business Development Lead will forecast, target, manage and coordinate the roles of all inputs and all other disciplines in all business development activities.

The tasks you'll perform

• Manage activities related to the acquisition of new business and marketing opportunities, for Lycopodium Minerals, Brisbane Office.
• Working with the Brisbane Office leadership team to analyse short-, medium- and long-term opportunities in the market and develop a new business strategy and annual budget to support these activities.
• Manage all activities related to identification, development and maintenance of quality business and marketing opportunities.
• Obtain, analyse and distribute market intelligence.
• Advocate, develop and maintain Salesforce for new business purposes.
• Coordinate and support tendering activities for new business opportunities with the Brisbane Management Team.

The expertise you'll bring

• Business or Law tertiary qualification, and or Bachelor of Engineering or equivalent;
• Min 5 years postgraduate experience in a similar position.
• Extremely well-developed written and verbal communication skills.
• Build and sustain positive relationships with all stakeholders, including clients, vendors and co-workers.
• Exemplify and encourage the core values and ethos of the business.
• Intuitive leader with the ability to initiate, lead and manage change in a complex environment.
• Provide mentoring and identify avenues of professional development and succession planning to personnel within your team.
• Capacity to delegate appropriately.
• Capacity to evaluate work practices, implement systems and suggest alternatives and refinements where necessary.
• Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision whilst consistently producing a high quality of deliverables.
• Demonstrated ability to achieve consistently high standards within both budgetary and schedule constraints.
• High attention to detail and exceptional knowledge of commercial acumen.
• Solid technical aptitude, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficient understanding of business acumen with the ability to adapt to different business environments.
• Personal qualities of integrity, credibility and commitment.
• Demonstrate a strict practice of confidentiality, personal responsibility and discretion.
• High degree of professional ethics.

The benefits we'll provide

Lycopodium has a strong company culture focused on career progression and technical skill development. You can expect to be involved in a wide range of large projects whilst working amongst a team of highly skilled professionals.

We recognise that everyone is different and needs may change over the course of your career. That's why we :

• Invest in our people for the long-term, building a diverse and rewarding career, mentored by the best in the industry.
• Allow our people to balance work with other commitments, like family or study, offering flexible work arrangements.
• Provide access to a benefits, rewards and recognition platform that also offers great discounts to hundreds of retailers in Australia.
• Are undertaking significant people and technology initiatives that will support the workplace of the future.

We encourage and value diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of gender, age, disability and ethnicity, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

Our commitment to equal opportunity is embodied in our values of Respect, Integrity & Diligence. They are inherent in who we are, as individuals, and collectively as a Company.

As part of our commitment to providing the best possible care and service to you the candidate, we commit to respond to every applicant.

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