About this role
A Senior Business Development Manager is needed to drive revenue growth, market penetration, and strategic partnerships in the building materials sector. The role involves maintaining a sales pipeline, collaborating with leadership on growth plans, and pursuing opportunities with OEMs, distributors, and partners. It requires targeting enterprise, institutional, and public sector opportunities, monitoring market trends, and leading proposals, tenders, negotiations, and contract closures. The employer is a recruitment, training and business consulting firm based in Lagos, serving diverse clients across industries. Qualifications include a business-related bachelor’s degree with an MBA or relevant certification considered an advantage, and a strong background in B2B and B2C sales with 4–7 years of experience in business development or commercial leadership.
What you would do
- Maintain a strong and sustainable sales pipeline
- Collaborate with executive leadership to align growth initiatives
- Build strategic relationships with OEMs, distributors and partners
- Identify and pursue enterprise, institutional and public sector opportunities
- Monitor market trends and competitive activity
- Develop and execute growth and business development strategies
- Lead proposals, tenders, negotiations and contract closures
What they are asking for
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering or related field
- MBA or relevant professional certification is an added advantage
- 4–7 years’ experience in business development or commercial leadership roles
- Strong background in B2B and B2C sales
- Proven success closing high-value and long-cycle deals
- Strong negotiation and relationship management skills
- Experience in printer hardware, MPS or enterprise IT services is an advantage
- Strategic and growth-oriented mindset
- Commercially astute and results-driven
- Confident negotiator with strong relationship-building skills
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