Business Development Manager at Uniccon Group

Uniccon Group is the home of innovative and customizable tech products to meet your needs. We combine world-class expertise, experience, and modern tools to scale up your productivity. Valuing and collaborating for the best services have kept us ahead of the market. Individuals, SMEs, organisation, and government agencies achieve more with us.

Uniccon Group owns Africa’s leading hub for STEM research, training, and solutions (STEMFocus). Research is the bedrock of our innovative services in the marketplace, payment gateway, workflow optimization, financial intel, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and e-learning products. We are futuristic and leading with METAVERSE and NFTs in Africa. The operations extend to Agro-commodities processing and export, fashion brands, and general contracting business. It oversees operations across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and other parts of the world. The products are innovative, and customizable to meet market needs. Unicorn Group is a key player in their respective industries.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Business Development Manager

Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full-time

Summary

• The Group and its subsidiaries have business operations and projects in ICT software and solutions; STEM training, and services as well as upcoming projects.
• The Business Development Manager is expected to identify new business opportunities, grow existing ones and drive revenue for profit maximization across these operations.

Responsibilities

• Identify, research, and map out business opportunities including new markets, trends, growth areas, customers, and partnerships, products (tangible and intangible or new ways of gaining more in existing markets for the Group, subsidiaries, and projects.
• Source relevant contacts in organizations that are potential markets/clients, reach out via visits, proposals and establish business relationships
• Manage new and existing relationships via calls, emails, and necessary channels of communication to generate business or grow existing ones with them
• Develop proposals, letters, documents, or product papers to prospect new relationships or maintain existing ones.
• Be strategic in thinking by seeing the overview, funneling, setting aims and objectives to create new businesses and improve current business
• Researching and advising management on the viability or otherwise of new or running projects or business ventures
• Work strategically to carry out set out plans, strategies and achieve desired results
• Organize stakeholders’ meetings and seminars with aim of extracting business opportunities.
• Identify relevant stakeholders, partnerships, endorsements, supports for the e-products of the Company and follow up with action to achieve them
• Exhibit sound understanding of the Group, subsidiaries, projects’ products, and operations; and capacity to effectively communicate same to clients.
• Collaborate with the Trade and Commerce department to develop strategies, and promotions that would facilitate achievement of sales and marketing objectives.
• Work and synergize with all relevant departments of the Company in the interest of growth.
• To discharge any other responsibilities assigned by Management from time to time.

Skills Requirements / Key Competencies

• B.Sc / HND in Social Sciences or related field
• Suitable Professional certification
• 3 to 5 years’ experience in a similar role or Banking experience preferably.

Application Closing Date
5th November, 2022.