Business Development Director

Job no: 571808
Work type: Full time
Location: Shanghai, China
Categories: Sales

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ABOUT TMF GROUP

TMF Group is a leading provider of administrative services, helping clients invest and operate safely around the world. As we’re a global company with 11,000+ colleagues based in over 125 offices across 87 jurisdictions, we actively seek out people with the talent and potential to flourish at TMF Group, whatever their background, and offer job opportunities to the broadest spectrum of people. Once on board we nurture and promote talented individuals, making sure that senior positions are open to all.

About the role

The Business Development Director is responsible for creating and closing local sales opportunities, bringing in new local business to the market and expanding existing customers within the market. This individual will support inbound sales processes by providing with proposals to global sellers, while also upselling and cross selling to an existing client portfolio. Will be responsible of non-complex renewal processes.

 
Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop the business by building new business pipeline, as well as upselling and cross-selling to existing clients. 

  • Identify and optimize sales opportunities, using knowledge of the market and competitors, as well as TMF’s unique selling propositions and differentiators. 

  • Develop and maintain a network of prospects that will enable a strong, consistent pipeline for conversion into sales. 

  • Utilize effective relationships to maximize opportunities for cross referrals (including intermediaries). 

  • Manage the contact to contract sales process efficiently and effectively, with transparency. 

  • Develop proposals that address clients’ needs, concerns, and business objectives. 

  • Work as part of a deal team to ensure the best customer experience and response.  Including deal sharing across different sales teams (markets and regions) to increase chances to win the deal and learn from others in the process. 

  • Leverage input from other internal teams to maximize overall deal value to the business. 

  • Participates in large opportunities, from initiation to closure, and create development plans for large client accounts. 

  • Lead the coordination and presentation of multi-jurisdictional sales proposals to international clients. 

  • Drive cross-selling opportunities, working with existing clients as they expand into or operate in other jurisdictions serviced by TMF offices in over 85 countries across the globe. 

  • Meet monthly, quarterly, and annual qualified pipeline generation. 

  • Meet monthly, quarterly, and annual sale´s targets, aligned with the company’s objectives. 

  • Contribute to the development of the sales team, boosting overall productivity and effectiveness, and improving conversion rates 

  • Work with leadership to implement best practice and create strategies for sales improvement based on market research and/or competitor analysis. 

  • Adopt and maintain TMF Sales Processes and Systems as part of his / her daily job (including CRM weekly maintainance, Sales Forecasting process, Proposal building tool, Deal Qualification tool, Sales Dashboards, etc.). 

 

Key Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree, preferably in business, sales, marketing, or a related field  

  • Relevant working experience in a commercial environment, or in consulting, accounting, or law firms. 

  • Excellent English written and verbal communication skills.  

  • Knowledge of a second language is a plus.  

  • Ability to build strong relationships with clients and intermediaries at all levels. 

  • Ideal candidate will have a solid network within the industry, and an interest in our portfolio of services.  

  • Able to “solution sell” where the ability to listen to the clients and understand what they. really need is more important than a hard sell. 

  • Able to manage coordination of complex multi-jurisdictional proposals involving multiple business lines. 

  • Self-motivated and able to work both independently and as part of a team. 

  • Strong communication, very good negotiation and influencing skills. 

  • Results-oriented, and able to manage their priorities/workload. 

  • Experience working in or with direct sales, pre-sales and/or enablement in an enterprise software and/or SaaS environment.  

  • Regular travel may be required. 

  • Strong critical thinking and problem-solving.  

  • Proficient in Microsoft Office. 

  • Experience in Microsoft Dynamics CRM or Salesforce a plus. 

 

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

Pathways for career development

  • Work with colleagues and clients around the world on interesting and challenging work.
  • We provide internal career opportunities so you can take your career further within TMF
  • Continuous development is supported through global learning opportunities from the TMF Business Academy

Making an impact

  • You’ll be helping us to make the world a simpler place to do business for our clients
  • Through our corporate social responsibility programme, you’ll also be making a difference in the communities where we work

A supportive environment

  • Strong feedback culture to help build an engaging workplace
  • Our inclusive work environment allows you to work from our offices around the world, as well as from home, helping you find the right work-life balance to perform at your best.

 

 

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