Overview
Bellforte Consulting – Our client, a Leasing Company located in the central business district of Lagos State, Nigeria is recruiting to fill the position below:
- Job Position: Administrative Officer
- Job Location: Lagos Island, Lagos
Job Description
Office Administrator:
- Manage reception desk: incoming/outgoing phone calls, mails, visitors to the office.
- Manage internal mails.
- Support to register the parking and access building card with building admin.
- Prepare the welcome screen for new associates.
- Fleet Management.
- Vendor Management.
- Procurement and Inventory.
- Technical support for all staff.
- Manage and maintain all facilities in the office daily.
- Supervise maintenance jobs performed by Vendor.
Job Responsibilities
- Researching organizations to find new customers and identify who makes the decisions
- Cold calling to arrange meetings at customers’ premises
- Finding out what an organization needs and working with a team to plan proposals and pricing
- Selling products and services to new and existing customers
- Negotiating with customers and building positive relationships
- Attending events and conferences
- Writing reports and making presentations to customers and senior management
- Identifying new methods and opportunities for sales campaigns
- Forecasting sales targets and making sure they’re met
- Delivering training to business developers and junior sales teams
- Identify new business opportunities – including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, products and services
- Seek out the appropriate contact in an organization
- Generate leads and cold call prospective customers
- Meet with customers/clients face to face or over the phone
- 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 businesses products or services and be able to advise others about them
- Ensure staff are on board throughout the organization and understand the need for change and what is required of them
- Train members of your team, arranging external training where appropriate
- Discuss promotional strategy and activities with the marketing department
- Liaise with the finance team, warehousing and logistics departments as appropriate
- Seek ways of improving the way the business operates
- Attend seminars, conferences and events where appropriate
- Keep abreast of trends and changes in the business world.
- Help to plan sales campaigns
- Create a sales pipeline
- Negotiate pricing with customers, and suppliers in some cases
- Carry out sales forecasts and analysis and present your findings to Senior Management.
Job Requirements
- Education and Experience Requirements.
- OND minimum required.
- 4+ years of experience supporting a large, fast-paced office with similar job accountabilities.
- Demonstrated Microsoft Office Suite skills (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel).
- Demonstrated ability to support multiple managers and helping them to be more efficient and organized.
- High degree of integrity and ethics and the ability to protect confidential employee and organizational information.
- High degree of composure and ability to deal with high-velocity change, fluctuating priorities and shifting deliverables.
Competencies:
- Interpersonal Effectiveness – Builds constructive and effective relationships; Presents information and respond to questions with confidence; Uses diplomacy and tact.
- Customer Focus – Establishes and maintains effective relationships with internal and external partners, gaining their trust and respect.
- Action Orientation: Highly driven and self-motivated; Capable of working in a deadline-oriented environment; Ability to work independently and proactively to develop solutions with minimal guidance; Ability to think creatively.
- Organizational skills – Ability to multi-task and prioritize daily workload. Ability to meet deadlines and to work independently with minimal supervision; Ability to orchestrate multiple activities at once to accomplish a goal; Arranges information in a useful manner.
- Team player – Able to work as part of a team.
- Attention to detail – Methodical and meticulous; Demonstrates attention to detail.
- Communication: Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills.
- Informing: Ability to recognize key issues and effectively communicate to management
- Perseverance – Pursues everything with energy; Demonstrates drive and a need to finish; Gives up seldom even in the face of resistance or setbacks; Demonstrates a proactive attitude and ability to act on own initiative.
- Functional / Technical Skills: Demonstrated office management skills; demonstrated meeting and travel scheduling capabilities; Strong Microsoft Office Suite skills (Excel, PowerPoint, etc)
Skills and Knowledge:
- The ability to sell products and services
- Knowledge of English language
- Good presentation skills
- The ability to use your initiative
- Leadership skills
- Customer service skills
- Business management skills
- Ambition and a desire to succeed
- To be able to use a computer and the main software packages confidently
- Tenacity and drive to seek new business and meet or exceed targets
- Excellent telephone manners for making initial contact and for ongoing communication with customers and business associate
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills – needed for communicating with a wide range of people, both internally and externally
- Good IT skills, including the use of spreadsheets
- A professional manner and presentable appearance for meeting customers/clients
- Initiative and good decision-making skills
- Project management skills
- The ability to motivate yourself and set your own goals
- Great organizational skills
- Good networking skills
- The ability to think strategically
- The ability to analyze sales figures and write reports
- Initiative and the confidence to start things from scratch
- The ability to speak a foreign language may be an asset if you’re dealing with overseas clients.
- A valid driving license is a requirement.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online