Business Development Consultant – Food Hygiene

Requirements: - A bachelor's degree or National Diploma in Sales, Business Development, Marketing or a related field. - A Matric Certificate. - Minimum of 3 Years' solid experience in Business Development & Best Practices within the sales environment. - Strong sales & marketing knowledge (ideally in the food hygiene services industry). Responsibilities: - Actively search, pursue, and engage potential clients. - Knowledge of existing contracts and weekly meetings with the Regions General Manager & Operations Manager. - Manage the compilation and, where necessary, draft high-quality proposals, bids and tender responses. - Follow up and survey leads generated through various channels and cold calling. - Ensure tenders and bids are responded to in a professional, timely and compliant manner. - Engage and manage strategic suppliers who are providing solutions and commercial content for proposals, bids and tender responses. - Identify weaknesses in the sales process and address. - Follow up on cancelled contracts. - Implement and manage strategic initiatives to ensure that annual growth targets are met and ideally exceeded to increase the company's market share. - Achieve Monthly Sales Budgets by implementing and maintaining a marketing and sales strategy. - Identifying new growth opportunities by market segments. - Using the full marketing mix for the company's marketing communications. - Train the team on Fundamental understanding of ISO22000/FSSC22000, R638 and our responsibilities as a cleaning and hygiene service provider. - Assists the team understands and drafts assistance in terms of PRP's (pre-requisite programs in food hygiene).