Assistant Business Development Manager at Bell Oil and Gas Limited

Bell OIl and Gas Limited is a leadingindigenous oilfield services company, dedicated to consistently proffering solutions, driving local content development and capacity building in Nigeria. We offer an extensive range of high quality professional services to clients across the facets of oil and gas industry and other industries.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Assistant Business Development Manager

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Functional Area: Business Development (Upstream Oil and Gas)
Reports to: GM-Supply Chain and Business Development

Overall Purpose of Job

• To assist the GM, BD & SC to ensure that company’s growth objectives are met and supervising other BDEs to ensure that Business Development Processes are followed and unit goals are met.

Responsibilities

• Exhibit sound knowledge of the company’s business strategy.
• Exploit opportunities to sell company services/products.
• Exhibit sound knowledge of our offerings and coach other Business Development Executives (BDEs) to come up to speed.
• Ensure that profiles are built for our customers by identifying immediate and long-term goals.
• Collate client-specific intelligence and map out ways of relating with them.
• Generate request for quote on your assigned accounts and encourage other BDEs to do so on their accounts.
• Effectively manage the accounts assigned to you to ensure sales targets are met and also supervise other BDEs to ensure they do the same.
• Ensure full payment for all supplies and services
• Reconcile customers’ accounts and ensure proper documentation
• Prospect for and acquire new and financially viable high-volume customers
• Identify and recommend as most appropriate, technical assistance for key customers
• Provide regular updates on plans and progress in your accounts and on other accounts in the unit.
• Demonstrate consistent business development success and target – driven achievement
• Build customer profile by identifying immediate and long-term goals
• Define strategy for relating with each customer group and create a Customer Relationship Plan per group
• Generate Request for Quotation (RFQ) and Purchase Orders (PO) on your assigned accounts and ensure other BDEs do the same on their accounts.
• Effectively manage each customer account to ensure sales targets are fully achieved
• Collate and communicate business intelligence
• Assist in the preparation of tenders where necessary
• Be aware and responsive to threats to our business goals.
• Prepare up-to-date reports on activities in the unit and agree on ways forward with Line Manager
• Exhibit sound business report writing skills and coach other team members to do the same.
• Attend presentations to and negotiations with prospective clients.
• Assist the Line Manager in preparing reports for the monthly management meeting.
• Represent the Line Manager at meetings as delegated.

Person Specification

• A good university degree
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in the upstream sector of the oil and gas industry.
• Good working knowledge of the Nigerian Oil Industry (Upstream)
• Proven ability to advise clients
• Proven track record of winning businesses
• Proven account management experience in the oil industry
• Direct sales and marketing experience into IOCs, EPCs, and other operators in the upstream sector
• Self-starter and a self-motivator
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Good MS Word and presentation skills
• Sound computing skills (minimum Microsoft Office)
• Proven experience of supervising others.

Application Closing Date
13th March, 2026.