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
FULL DESCRIPTION
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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