Business Development Manager Africa - French Speaking at Cigna

Summary

• As a Business Development Manager, you own your region, develop your strategy, and execute this. For this role the region is defined as South Africa and other French speaking countries Africa. You can imagine, two days hardly ever look the same. A typical day might include the following:

YOUR JOB

• 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
• 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?
• Are you fluent in both English and French language?
• 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