Business Development Manager job in Johannesburg 2024
Jellyfish – Business Development Manager job in Johannesburg April 2024
Current Employment at Jellyfish in S.Africa 2024
Recruitment Vacancy for Business Development Manager in S.Africa 2024
| Remuneration: | Market related |
| Benefits: | 20 days’ leave per year, company bonus scheme, Medical Aid including GAP cover, pension fund and an excellent working environment |
| Location: | Johannesburg |
| Own transport required: | Yes |
| Travel requirement: | Occasional |
| Reference: | #JFSABizDev-JHB |
Job description
Are you ready to take your career to the next level? Are you a digital native with the energy and experience needed to grow an online agency in SA – and just itching to find the perfect place to do so?
If so, we’re looking for you.
Jellyfish is a world-leading boutique digital agency, combining scale and industry best practice with a personal touch that makes our customers adore us, and our staff stay forever.
Having made our mark on the international stage, we’re ready to expand. We’re growing into the South Africa and bringing almost three decades of solid global experience and insight to the local market. We want someone who ‘gets it’ – who shares the vision for a connected South Africa – to help spearhead this growth from our Johannesburg office.
If this is you, read on.
The Role
Full responsibility for driving and facilitating all activities directly related to generating new business and potential clients within the South African market.
Job specific
- Presenting Jellyfish to potential clients through face to face meetings, phone calls, and emails
- Managing the sales process from lead generation through to handover to the AM team
- Accurately logging all communication, actions, and sales process milestones with potential clients
- Demonstrates measurable success through achievable KPIs
- Creating and taking full accountability for all client proposals, campaign agreements, etc. generated throughout the sales process before handover to the AM team
- Establishing client’s business and commercial objectives, then presenting appropriate campaign solutions
- Creating great proposals in presentation software
Responsibilities
- Obtaining and maintaining a database of executive contact details within target sectors
- Attending, assisting with the management and facilitation of exhibitions and trade shows
- Attending industry conferences, with particular emphasis on networking with key personnel and decision makers
- Identifying and proposing advertising or sponsorship opportunities
- Staying abreast of industry trends and opportunities through market and industry research
- Establishing potential strategic partners and service providers as to enhance the performance of existing campaigns
- Contributing to Jellyfish marketing strategies
Company Description
We are everything you’d expect from a smaller digital agency: accountable, autonomous, flexible and personable. Yet the truth is, we deliver scale and reach for global brands from our network of offices in South Africa, the US and UK.
Requirements
- Advanced working knowledge of digital marketing strategies and tactics, able to acquire and maintain in-depth subject matter knowledge in key Jellyfish delivery areas to facilitate clients’ strategic objectives as follows:
- Paid media
- SEO and social media
- Creative development and video
- Website design and build
- Analytics and optimisation
- Conversion rate optimisation
- Possesses strong interpersonal skills, particularly influencing, and listening skills
- Possesses strong customer telephone and face to face skills
- Is a confident and articulate presenter
- Project management skills and prioritising tasks; demonstrates a structured and methodical way of working, with the ability to cope with competing demands and effectively prioritise tasks
- Identifies commercial opportunities and implements innovations
- High-quality documents, business writing skills, and communication
- Attention to detail
- Presentation skills and chair proficiency
Personal Skills/Attributes
- Very business-like and professional in appearance
- Is numerate and analytically minded
- Is a self-motivated individual with high levels of energy
- An outgoing, positive thinker, with consistent levels of evident enthusiasm
- Flexible, versatile, and copes well under pressure
- Open, honest and direct, is comfortable in giving and receiving constructive feedback
- Has high personal standards and promotes them in others
- A valued team member, who upholds Jellyfish’s values and professional integrity
Contact details
Kerry Mathieson
Jellyfish
0311002498
hello@jellyfish.co.za