Unyde Systems - Business Development Manager

As a business development manager, you'll need to :

- Research and identify new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets

- Seek out the appropriate contact in an organisation

- Generate leads and cold call prospective customers

- Meet with customers/clients face to face or over the phone

- Foster and develop relationships with customers/clients

- Understand the needs of your customers and be able to respond effectively with a plan of how to meet these

- Think strategically - seeing the bigger picture and setting aims and objectives in order to develop and improve the business

- Work strategically - carrying out necessary planning in order to implement operational changes

- Draw up client contracts - depending on the size of the company, this task may be completed by someone else or agreements may not be as formal

- Have a good understanding of the businesses products or services and be able to advise others about them