Business Development Executive MENA

Job Title: Business Development Executive MENA
Location: London
Sector: Education, secondary schools and learning
Salary: £25000 – £28000 (5/20k OTE)

Company

International educational institution that is expanding globally. This is an exciting business and a truly fabulous opportunity for someone multilingual with an interest in the new developments within education that are making learning for young people exciting, interesting and accessible. You will be working closely with the marketing department on planned promotional campaigns using your language skills and/or experience with the Middle East.

The role
You will be working to targets in this role:

• Meet and exceed targets and KPIs as set by your line manager
• Lead Generation/Researching schools and universities all over MENA
• Looking through school websites to locate the decision maker, get an understanding his/her role in the company and finding their email information or contact numbers
• Making outbound calls and speaking to prospective clients to introduce the service and booking meetings
• Building a network of relationships with local government representatives, school governors, educational departments, and government officials
• Liaising with marketing regarding marketing email campaigns
• Deliver sales presentations, both face-to-face and virtually to demonstrate how the products can effectively improve
• student levels of attainment
• Sending out marketing information and all telephone or email based follow-up
• Keep up to date with developments within the K-12 sector
• Use social media as a research tool to find contacts within local government and city council
• Produce price quotations

Requirements

• Fluent in English
• Fluent in Arabic is a strong plus
• Previous sales experience to MENA customers
• Knowledge of the education industry