Sandton: Business Development Representative (Mining) posted by Green Marble Recruitment Consultants

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated Business Development Representative (Mining) to join our team in Sandton. The successful candidate will be responsible for driving sales growth, developing business relationships with clients, and promoting our company’s products and services within the mining industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Achieve maximum sales profitability, growth, and account penetration within an assigned territory by effectively selling all group company’s products and/or related services.
• Support senior management to direct and manage technical team and sales metallurgists and support procurement and logistics with operations on the ground in country.
• Establish sufficient business within a market and manage and grow ongoing relationships with clients to grow our business with them.
• Liaise with clients, negotiate prices and terms, and secure contracts.
• Promote/sell/secure orders from existing and prospective customers through a relationship-based approach.
• Motivate new products and technology to clients, providing competitive advantage to the Group and related companies in the mining industry.
• Manage technical sales development of new products and technology with technical team members.
• Support Group Sales Manager and Managing Director by actively managing business interests in the DRC including group companies, staff, and other general management activities.
• Establish, develop, and maintain business relationships with prospective and current customers.
• Generate inquiries from potential and current clients.
• Make telephone calls and possible in-person visits and presentations to prospective and current clients.
• Research sources for developing prospective clients and information to determine their potential.
• Promote and maintain market share of current AHG products sold as well as replace competitively supplied products.
• Coordinate sales effort with marketing, sales management, accounting, logistics, and technical service groups.
• Develop clear, effective, and accurate written proposals/quotations for existing and prospective clients.
• Maintain timely follow-ups to client and communication to internal teams.
• Expedite the resolution of customers’ problems and complaints.
• Maintain and update client organisation/people and plant/process files.
• Keep abreast of product applications, technical services, market conditions, competitive activities, and consulting with technical department.

Requirements

• Relevant Degree
• Minimum 3 years’ post-study experience
• Proven experience within the mining industry
• Experience working across Africa
• Willingness and ability to travel extensively throughout Africa

Qualifications

No specific qualifications mentioned.