Business development officer
Solaris business development C
Overview
Languages
English
Education
- Master’s degree
Experience
2 years to less than 3 years
On site
Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.
Work setting
- Business and/or industry
- Consulting firm
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Develop policies
- Administer programs to promote industrial and commercial business investment in rural and urban areas
- Perform administrative tasks
- Plan development projects
- Recruit and hire staff
- Provide advice on procedures and requirements for government approval of development proposals
- Develop social and economic profiles of an area to encourage industrial and commercial investment
- Conduct comparative research on marketing strategies for industrial and commercial products
- Prepare reports, research papers, educational texts or articles
- Provide consulting services to government and other organizations
- Conduct social or economic surveys on local, regional, or international areas to assess development of potential and future trends
- Review and evaluate commercial or industrial development proposals
- Design market research questionnaires
- Develop portfolio of marketing materials
- Evaluate customer service and store environments
- Design, conduct and analyze quantitative and qualitative research projects
- Develop feasibility studies
- Conduct online marketing, E-commerce and Website promotions
- Maintain database of potential franchisees, real estate locations and on-line buy/sell Internet sites
- Prepare funding applications
- Provide consultation on planning and starting of new businesses.
- Develop marketing strategies
- Ensure appropriate business/commercial licenses are in place
- Deliver presentations at conferences, workshops or symposia
- Develop and implement business plans
Supervision
- 1 to 2 people
Experience and specialization
Computer and technology knowledge
- Microsoft Visio
- MS Excel
- MS Office
- MS Outlook
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Windows
- MS Word
Additional information
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Dependability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Initiative
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability