Job Title: Business Development Executive
Qualification: HND/BSC
Location: Abeokuta, Ogun State

Healthucate™, a start-up social enterprise focusing on health and wellness education and promotion is on a mission to improve lives, reduce the burden of disease, and help people achieve optimum physical and mental wellbeing. Healthucate’s goal is to make health education available, accessible and easy-to-understand by every person, young or aged and as such is committed to providing services and developing innovative resources and platforms (i.e audio-visual contents, publications, games, and IT solutions) to communicate evidence-based, health information that evokes behaviour change for a healthier lifestyle. To drive business activities at our new Abeokuta office, we are seeking to recruit Business Development Executives. www.healthucateng.org

JOB DESCRIPTION
o Effective communication of information about company’s services to potential customers.
o Develop business and marketing plans to achieve revenue goals and targets.
o Professional and effective client contact, counseling, follow-up and feedback.
o Assist in company’s branding and media communication activities such as promo, advertisement, social media platforms and website.
o Research the market for identifying new business opportunities.
o Explain to prospective clients about the advantages of the products and services offered and follow up with them in order to close deals.
o Respond to the client queries regarding the products and services in a timely fashion.
o Develop business proposals for new and existing customers.

Requirements/skills
Ideal candidate must possess:
o Be target-driven and goal-oriented.
o Possess a good track record of meeting and exceeding set target.
o Be versatile with MS Office applications.
o Have good communication and interpersonal skills.
o Have ability to work under pressure.
o Be courteous and convincing to clientele.
o Possess experience with handling clientele as the first point of contact.
o Be able to administer and process enquiries.
o Be able to make professional and effective client contact, counseling, follow-up and feedback.
o Be able to effectively utilize the internet and other platforms for effective marketing and business opportunity generation.
o Be competent in drafting proposals and making presentations.

Application Deadline
15th November, 2016

Note: Only candidates based in Abeokuta are expected to apply.

Method Of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Cover Letter and CV to info@healthucateng.org with the job title as the subject. The cover letter should explain clearly why you want to take on this role and why you are the best fit for the role. Only shortlisted candidates would be contacted.