Business Development Manager Africa at Cigna

What would a typical day look like?
As a Business Development Manager, You Own Your Region, Develop Your Strategy And Execute This. You Can Imagine, Two Days Hardly Ever Look The Same. A Typical Day Might Include The Following

• Building relations within your markets to develop concrete business opportunities and create new sales leads
• Set everything aside to close a deal.
• Prepare presentations & proposals
• Building a healthy pipeline and execute on it in order to close your deals
• Attend and participate during broker events
• Review and adapt your regional strategy to maximize results
• Finish a quote before the deadline while following internal processes.

What skills do you need?

• Do you have 5 years of experience in sales and you have strong commercial, networking and negotiation skills? Great start! That’s essential for the role.
• Do you also have an international and/or healthcare background?
• Finally if you are a driven by closing business and get excited by exceeding your sales, you might just be the perfect fit.

You will love this job if you…

• Love sales and get motivated by working with targets
• Are well-organised in following up on your sales leads
• Nurture relations and enjoy developing them
• Are triggered by the opportunity to map and adapt our sales strategy
• Feel in your natural habitat at networking events and in presentation rooms
• Have a strong sense of accountability and like to be empowered
• Like to work independently, but also value the input of others
• Can cope with the stress of deadlines and taking decisions in unexpected situations
• Are agile and enjoy adapting to an ever changing environment