Business Development Specialist

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 24 March 2026
LOCATION
London
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Not specified
CATEGORY
Business Development
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SKILLS

Communication skills Sales Lead generation Client relationship management Sales forecasting Negotiation Mandarin fluency

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Business Development Specialist

Full-time/Part-time/Internship | Business Development | London, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

Job Description

As a business development specialist, you'll need to:

  • Research and identify new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products and services - or new ways of reaching existing markets.
  • Seek out the appropriate contact in an organisation.
  • Generate leads and cold call prospective customers.
  • Meet with customers/clients face to face or over the phone
  • Foster and develop relationships with customers/clients.
  • Understand the needs of your customers and be able to respond effectively with a plan of how to meet these
  • think strategically - seeing the bigger picture and setting aims and objectives in order to develop and improve the business
  • work strategically - carrying out necessary planning in order to implement operational changes.
  • Draw up client contracts - depending on the size of the company, this task may be completed by someone else or agreements may not be as formal.
  • Have a good understanding of the business's products or services and be able to advise others about them
  • help to plan sales campaigns.
  • Create a sales pipeline.
  • Negotiate pricing with customers, and suppliers in some cases.
  • Increase sales of the business.
  • Carry out sales forecasts and analysis and present your findings to senior management/the board of directors
  • develop the business sales and marketing strategy.

Requirements

You will need to have:

  • The ability and desire to sell
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Resilience and the ability to cope with rejection
  • Must be fluent in Mandarin
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