Old Mutual is a firm believer in the African opportunity and our diverse talent reflects this.
Job Description
Assists in planning and implementing the pursuit of strategic opportunities by cultivating partnerships or other commercial relationships or by identifying new markets for the entity’s products or services.
Responsibilities
Business Development
Carry out routine business development support tasks and assist others by following established procedures.
Customer Needs Clarification
Interview the customer, following a multilevel sales script, to clarify the customer’s requirements.
Customer Relationship Development / Prospecting
Make calls (by telephone or in person) to allocated potential customers to develop relationships. Provide a first point of contact for resolving customer queries and complaints.
Sales Opportunities Creation
Identify potential customers by using publicly available lists, such as trade directories and internet searches.
Sell Customer Propositions
Identify a selection of products or services that may meet the customer’s requirements, explain the product / service features and standard terms of sale to the customer, and invite the customer to make a selection and purchase at the standard price / terms and conditions of sale.
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Data
Enter relevant information into the CRM system after each contact with a customer to ensure that the organization has quality data to enable effective customer retention and business development activities.
Customer Relationship Management / Account Management
Make calls (by telephone or in person) to allocated existing customers to maintain relationships. Provide a first point of contact for resolving customer queries and complaints.
Operational Compliance
Develop working knowledge of the organization’s policies and procedures and of regulatory codes and codes of conduct relevant to own work, adhering to mandatory procedures to ensure own work is undertaken to the required standards.
Personal Capability Building
Develop and maintain excellent process or technical skills by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching.
Skills
Building Trust, Client Management, Client Needs Assessments, Consultative Selling, Customer-Focused, Customer Service, Customer Understanding, Customer Value Proposition Development, Direct Selling, Identifying Sales Opportunities, Sales Closing Techniques, Sales Data Management, Sales Software, Strengthening Customer Relationships
Lead At Mutual South • Ghana