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Skills:Proficient with MS project, WBS Schedule pro, Proficient with CRM softwares, Complex problem Solving, Service oriented, Time Managemtn

Business Development Consultant 01/2016 - current
5links Global Group, Silver spring, MD United States
Industry: Consulting
Responsible for coordinating and facilitating the expansion of company clientele and also developing strategies to drive financial growth through boosting sales and forging strong relationship with clients.
• Generates business case analysis for potential and actual partners program. • Assists in market research and analysis to help identify product and service audience, Identifying and understanding their needs, breaking them into segments and tailoring company services according to each segment. • Strategizes with advisors about improving business development, marketing and CRM • Assists in developing marketing proposals and marketing plans for specific audience by identifying, segmenting and addressing market targets through surveys and social listening. • Assists in developing ideas and creating content for company sites, seminars, webinars, infographics etc. • Responsible for measuring and analyzing the performances of marketing campaigns, social media engagements, content downloads in other to identify advantages or disadvantages of the platform and make necessary changes. • Responsible for creating innovative ideas to differentiate and separate both company and company products from competition--
Strategic Advisor/Business Development 12/2014 - 11/2016
Tolbid Advisors, Laurel , MD United States
Provided confidential executive level support to senior executive officers and Directed, coordinated and facilitated the implementation and management of key strategic initiatives. Handled the execution of a broad and complex set of assignments as delegated by executive leadership
• Responsible for advising management on business formation and operational execution. • Proposed innovative marketing and sales strategy for the organization to tap into the grass root market. • Worked with colleagues and clients to assists leadership teams of companies in choosing the best strategy and making the best choices to improve future outcomes for their organization • Assisted in identifying and defining desired future outcomes for organizations by defining goals and putting them into clear measurable terms and timelines and making sure these goals are actionable and very well understood by all stakeholders. • Worked with both internal and external teams in accessing the validity and relevance of data and the quality of information used in making recommendations • Worked with leadership teams to identify how objectives can be broken down and divided into smaller activities that people can work on and identifying who does what and by when it should be completed--
Business Development Associate 12/2007 - 08/2014
Skye Bank Nig. Plc, Lagos, LA Nigeria
Industry: Banking/Business
Worked to improve the bank's market position to achieve financial growth. Defined long-term organizational strategic goals, built key customer relationships, identified business opportunities, negotiated and closed business deals and maintained extensive knowledge of current market conditions.
• Generated new sales opportunities by developing relationships with new and existing clients through individualized account management. • Led company-client relations team and developed policies and procedures to maximize efficiency. • Calculated and measured both individual and group performances within the branch. • Forecasted and reviewed existing client contracts and created comprehensive reports for each target region on a quarterly and annual basis. • Worked in business-development teams on business-planning strategies • Initiated the use of new matrix to analyze and improve marketing strategy, evaluated marketing strategy, based on knowledge of establishment objectives and market characteristics Sourced for new clients/customers in other to grow balance size to meet required divisional branch target, managed and maintained good business relationship between clients and the bank--

University of Lagos 09/2002 - 06/2007
Lagos, LA, Nigeria
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:Political Science
Student Government and class Representative

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