Our culture of seamless collaboration enables us to go well beyond recruitment; we meet with every client, seeking to understand their needs and culture in a bid to engage the perfect candidate fit for them. This collaborative culture of problem-solving enables us to add great value to our clients businesses.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Business Development Executive
Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Industry: Consulting
Work Mode: On-site
Description
- We are seeking a proactive, confident, and results-driven Business Development Executive to drive client acquisition, business growth, and revenue generation for a growing HR Consulting firm.
- The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying new business opportunities, generating and converting leads, building relationships with corporate clients, and promoting the company’s professional services.
Key Responsibilities
Business Development & Client Acquisition:
- Identify and pursue new business opportunities across target industries and markets.
- Develop and execute business development strategies to achieve client acquisition and revenue targets.
- Generate qualified leads through cold calling, LinkedIn, networking, referrals, direct outreach, industry events, and market research.
- Research and identify prospective corporate clients, businesses, and key decision-makers.
- Conduct prospecting activities and develop relationships with potential clients.
- Arrange and conduct client meetings, presentations, pitches, and service demonstrations.
- Prepare compelling business proposals and commercial presentations tailored to client needs.
- Negotiate commercial terms and effectively close new business opportunities.
- Manage prospects through the complete sales cycle, from initial contact to conversion.
- Maintain consistent follow-up with prospects to maximise conversion and revenue opportunities.
Client & Relationship Management:
- Build and maintain strong relationships with existing and prospective clients.
- Understand client business needs and recommend appropriate services from the company’s portfolio.
- Maintain regular communication and follow-up with clients to ensure strong relationships.
- Identify opportunities for repeat business, referrals, cross-selling, and account growth.
- Maintain a strong understanding of client requirements and ensure effective coordination with internal teams.
- Support client retention and contribute to a positive customer experience.
Market Development & Partnerships:
- Identify new markets, industries, sectors, and client segments with business potential.
- Conduct market research to identify emerging opportunities, trends, and competitor activities.
- Develop strategic partnerships and referral relationships that can generate new business.
- Attend networking events, business forums, conferences, and other relevant engagements to generate leads and strengthen the company’s market presence.
- Maintain an updated database of prospects, leads, clients, and business opportunities.
Sales Pipeline & Performance Management:
- Develop and maintain a healthy sales/business development pipeline.
- Track leads, prospects, proposals, negotiations, conversions, and revenue opportunities.
- Monitor individual business development performance against agreed targets and KPIs.
- Prepare regular business development reports, sales forecasts, and pipeline updates.
- Use CRM systems and other relevant tools to maintain accurate records of business development activities.
- Provide management with market intelligence and recommendations for improving business growth.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Management, Economics, Communications, or a related discipline.
- 2–3 years of proven experience in Business Development, B2B Sales, Client Acquisition, Sales, or a related commercial role.
- Mandatory experience in selling services to businesses or corporate clients.
- Proven track record of lead generation, client acquisition, sales conversion, and revenue generation.
- Experience working with sales targets, business development KPIs, or revenue objectives.
- Strong experience in prospecting, cold calling, networking, pitching, negotiation, and closing.
- Excellent communication, presentation, persuasion, and relationship-management skills.
- Confident in engaging business owners, managers, executives, and other key decision-makers.
- Strong commercial awareness and ability to identify and convert business opportunities.
- Proactive, target-driven, persistent, and results-oriented.
- Good organisational and follow-up skills with the ability to manage multiple prospects and opportunities.
- Proficiency in CRM systems, LinkedIn, Microsoft Office, and other business development tools.
- Experience selling professional services, consulting, recruitment, outsourcing, training, technology, financial services, or other B2B services is an advantage.
- An existing network of corporate/business contacts is an added advantage.
Salary
N250,000 – N300,000 monthly.
Application Closing Date
20th October, 2026.
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: bradfieldforms@gmail.com using “Business Development Executive” as the subject of the email.
