Corporate Accounts Executive
Your tasks
Client and Account Management
- Manage relationships with existing clients, respond to enquiries, and ensure timely follow-up on requests.
- Monitor client orders, quotations, proposals, and delivery schedules in collaboration with the operations team.
- Maintain regular communication with clients to ensure satisfaction, encourage repeat business, and identify additional sales opportunities.
- Resolve routine client concerns and escalate issues where necessary.
Business Development and Sales
- Identify, research, and approach prospective corporate clients through LinkedIn, email, telephone calls, referrals, networking, and other relevant channels.
- Generate and maintain a pipeline of qualified leads and follow up consistently to secure new business. Arrange client meetings, prepare or coordinate proposals and quotations, and follow up to convert opportunities into orders.
- Promote the group's products and services, identify new market opportunities, and work towards agreed sales targets.
Marketing and Client Engagement
- Support direct marketing and promotional activities to attract new customers and strengthen existing relationships.
- Assist in preparing company profiles, brochures, catalogues, presentations, and other client-facing materials.
- Conduct market and competitor research to identify potential customers and business opportunities.
Records and Reporting
- Maintain accurate records of client contacts, prospects, meetings, quotations, orders, and follow-up activities.
- Submit weekly reports on leads generated, clients contacted, meetings secured, sales opportunities, and outstanding client requests.
- Monitor sales progress, client retention, and repeat business, and provide updates to management.
Internal Coordination
- Work with management and the operations team to ensure client requirements are communicated and orders are fulfilled efficiently.
- Coordinate with relevant teams across the group's businesses to support client acquisition, account management, and service delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or HND in Marketing, Business Administration, Sales, Management, or a related discipline.
- 2–3 years of relevant experience in account management, client relationship management, corporate sales, or business development.
- Strong communication, negotiation, presentation, and relationship-management skills.
- Ability to identify prospects, generate leads, follow up on opportunities, and support sales conversion.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite; familiarity with LinkedIn prospecting and CRM tools is an advantage.
- Organised, proactive, target-driven, and able to manage multiple client accounts and opportunities.
- Applicants residing in or around Lekki are strongly encouraged to apply.
Key Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal and relationship-management skills.
- Client account management and customer service.
- Business development and lead generation.
- Sales, negotiation, and persuasion skills.
- Project coordination and management.
- Strong presentation and networking skills.
- Market research and business opportunity identification.
- Excellent follow-up, organisation, and time-management skills.
- Problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office and digital communication tools.
- Ability to manage multiple client accounts and meet sales targets