identify new business opportunities - including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, products and services
seek out the appropriate contact in an organization
generate leads and cold call prospective customers
meet with customers/clients face to face or over the phone and travel across India
understand the needs of your customers and be able to respond effectively with a plan of how to meet these
think strategically - seeing the bigger picture and setting aims and objectives in order to develop and improve the business
work strategically - carrying out necessary planning in order to implement operational changes
have a good understanding of the businesses' products or services and be able to advise others about them.
Keep abreast of trends and changes in the business world.
If your business development role is more sales orientated, you may also do some or all of the following:
help to plan sales campaigns
create a sales pipeline
negotiate pricing with customers.
carry out sales forecasts and analysis and present your findings to senior management.