DAMCO Recruits Business Development Executive

DAMCO is one of the world’s leading providers of freight forwarding and supply chain management services. For more than 100 years, we have been providing our customers with transportation and logistics solutions that support the way they want to do business, wherever they are in the world.
As the Country Business Development Executive, you will:
Build strong relationship between assigned accounts and DAMCO;
 Aggressively Pursue and close any and all international and local business opportunities in line with DAMCO’s service portfolio and in accordance with guidelines set out by the company; and
 Act as a general or field sales executive with a broad scope of services but within the companies set out guidelines
This role is based in Ghana.

We Offer
A chance to explore your opportunities in one of the world’s fastest growing logistics company. In Damco, we strive to create value for our customers through our global reach and local knowledge. We put our customers first, understand their business, and develop solutions to meet their unique needs by proactively driving improvements and collaborations with our customers.
• The means of developing yourself into a well-rounded professional and the scale and global scope it takes for you to achieve even your most ambitious career goals.
• A great career path, both for generalists and for specialists in a wide array of fields

Key Responsibilities
 Directly manage and sell to a specific portfolio of customers within
within the right scope of DAMCO service portfolio in that given
location
 Suggest appropriate target accounts that can be included in his/her
Portfolio, which will be ultimately approved by the direct report
 Consistently look for new accounts that can be included into the
portfolio but understand the need to have a consistent and focused
approach
 Act as the single and main contact for all accounts assigned to the
portfolio, in respect to commercial activities
 Build and maintain relationships with as many key contacts/decision
makers as possible inside customers organization and enhance a
long-lasting business partnerships
 Include key DAMCO personnel into the relationship to ensure that
relationships run as deep as possible into both organizations
 Understand and translate the local needs of the Customers and
share and engage within the DAMCO organization
 Promote DAMCO in the market place
 Be the “voice” of the customer identifying issues and addressing
them throughout the organization in a proactive manner
 Must understand CRM and SMART reporting and ensure that they
use these tools in accordance to company guidelines
 Must personally update all information into the CRM as required by
the company
 Constantly update their own skills and knowledge with the trade
lanes in the Premier Sales rollouts

Who we are looking for
Ideally Freight Forwarding and/or Logistics experience of more than 2 years
 Good analysis and judgment skills
 Ability to work as individual but also understand a TEAM approach
 Strong Customer facing and presentation skills
 Must speak and write the native language at a high level
 Must speak and write English at an intermediate level
 Must be outgoing and easily able to build relationships at all levels
 Able to quickly adapt to changes
 Multi-tasking abilities
 Generally a Hunter type of profile
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Last application date: 05 February 2016.