Business Development Consultant

**Overview of role**

The role of Business development is vital to the continued growth and profitability of Euromonitor International. Your main role will be generating new and additional revenues primarily from new clients with and secondarily from existing clients.

You will be a highly self-motivated sales professional with a proven track record for selling in the business-to-business arena and have the tenacity, drive, commercial awareness and persuasiveness to find the right contact and sell the benefits of our products. As this role involves selling global solutions to large, multinational companies, you will be skilled in networking within a target company and bringing together the needs of customer personnel into collective service solutions.

This represents a significant opportunity for someone looking for a diverse and in-depth international sales role, targeting senior management in customer organisations.

**Euromonitor Consulting Department**

Euromonitor Consulting is a worldwide provider of market analysis and custom business intelligence solutions with a long established and trusted research methodology.

When operating in a fast-moving consumer product market, business-to-business, manufacturing or service sector, forward looking market research is vital for effective strategic and tactical planning.

Our Consulting group designs every project to address specific concerns and ambitions of your organisation, helping clients achieve and maintain leadership positions through the anticipation of change.

We support world leading consumer and industrial manufacturers, retailers, suppliers, business services, government departments, banks, consulting firms and trade promotion organisations.

**Key responsibilities**
- To react to incoming opportunities from sales and account managers, and further develop and shape those consulting opportunities through follow-up calls and meetings
- To help proactively develop new business opportunities in conjunction with sales staff - relying on previous project types which can be marketed to prospective clients
- To help manage the sales cycle for new leads and proposals and ensure that all enquiries and proposals are handled as quickly and effectively as possible.
- Ability to identify and communicate (verbally and in writing) clear client objectives, i.e. the client company’s aims in its own business.
- To prepare sophisticated, tailor-made proposals; and manage their delivery and active follow up
- To negotiate terms and close consulting deals in association with relevant senior colleagues as appropriate
- To understand Euromonitor’s competitors and how to present us as different and/or superior to them
- To help clients with research and/or technical support, as required
- To work with sales staff and account managers to maximise revenue opportunities from our existing client base and raise client awareness of consulting services
- To help maintain all directories and systems for new business development

**This Will Include**
- This business development role requires strong links with Consulting research and Account Management staff, including after winning new projects to ensure successful handover and implementation, and continued client relationship management to lead to future revenue streams.
- Actively involving other Cg staff in lead, proposal work and follow-up as demanded.
- Client hand-over
- Project design and implementation of appropriate research solutions
- Project follow-up
- Account management for repeat business opportunities.

**Requirements**:

- An outstanding personal sales track record, crafting bespoke solutions for clients
- Ability to do proposal writing
- Proven experience of selling to large multi-national organisations
- Intelligent, able to solve problems, and react positively to change
- Tenacity, drive and resilience
- Commercial awareness
- A targets-driven approach to work
- Experience in research and/or consumer-related and/or financial service sales/selling to the public sector is an advantage but not required
- Able to speak Japanese to liaise with Japanese counterparts but not mandatory
- Excellent negotiation and communication skills

**Benefits**

**Why work for Euromonitor ?**

Our values:
We act with **integrity**

We are **curious **about the world

We are stronger **together**

We seek to **empower**

We find strength in **diversity**

**International**: Not only do we have a very multinational workforce in each office but we are all dealing with our 15 offices worldwide on a daily basis. With 15 offices globally there are regular opportunities for international transfer.

**Hardworking but sociable**: Our staff know how to work hard but also how to enjoy themselves We pride ourselves on creating an appropriate work-life balance, with flexible hours and regular socialising including frequent after work meet ups, summer and Christmas parties and a whole range of sports and other groups to be involved with.