jihane El badi, Business Development Manager

jihane El badi

Business Development Manager

Gargash Insurance Services LLC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Marketing
Experience
9 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :9 years, 3 Months

Business Development Manager at Gargash Insurance Services LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
  • October 2011 to March 2013

Pro-actively hunt for target organizations and establish communications with those businesses that can benefit from our Company’s services.
Further develop multi-tier relationships to organically grow the clients’ accounts.
Build referral and lead generation network
Develop the corporate brand strategy •
 Develop and manage marketing tools and collateral for existing and new clients
 Implement business models so as to create new ventures
Forecast long and short-range market potential, Preparing quotations, and invoices, Visiting client, and introduce our product trough presentation or by giving company brochure.
Negotiation of prices
Following up with clients till deals closed
Studding the market (checking our competitor’s offers, benefits and prices.)

Accounting Manager at Etisalat Academy
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2010 to September 2011

The work will involve:
 Managing clients’ accounts
 Generating new business using existing network of industry contacts
 Expanding existing clients base with new industry contacts and leads
 Ensuring necessary actions are undertaken by the sales team
 Leading, managing, and training other members of the sales team
 Achieving sales targets
 Delivering sales presentations to mid & high-level executives
 Attending meetings with clients at all levels.
 Maintaining and expanding relationships with existing clients
 Acquiring new clients and establishing long term relationships
 Completing administrative work as necessary
 Conduct regular onsite visits to customers

Primary Responsibilities:

Key Account / Client Management & Sales:
 Generation of continuous business from existing accounts
 Achieve set sales targets as agreed with Senior Management.
 Managing existing accounts - you will need to be highly experienced in analyzing the client’s needs,
 Identifying new opportunities, influencing decision makers and closing.
 Identifying decision makers - relationship building and enable to build a strong relationship.
 Manage Collections & Receivables Business Analysis and Planning
 Make contact with all the key clients to determine their staffing and outsourcing services requirements and the support requirements.
 • Develop a detailed understanding of client requirements to enable the Delivery Manager and his team to develop Staffing solutions.
 Maintain strong communication lines.

marketing assistante at Nakheel properties
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2005 to April 2009

 Give all the information about properties availability and prices
 Follow up with Finance Department if the clients are in payment schedule.
 Keeps the track of activities in Customer Relation Management System
 Prepare the contracts to the clients
Marketing work:
 Sending thanks letter to clients after closing the deals to thank them for their trust and been one of our clients and that
 During a new launches I should following up with the other advertisement companies if the brochure, gift items, flags…. etc. are ready
 Send invitation to Nakheel regular clients before launching the new projects.
 I had to interact with all the other departments of the company; therefore, as a Marketing Staff we have to maintain a positive and professional attitude with the departments, in addition, we should know all the applications.

customer service at Emaar, Dubai- UAE
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2003 to September 2004

 Solve all the kind of customer’s problems.
 Find an appropriate solutions to customers' problems
 Initiate conversation to uncover customers' needs
 Following the Business codes, Conducts, Ethics and other related policies,
 Maintaining ethical behavior at all times.
 Answering confidently all kind of clients enquires in an ethical and informative way through e-mails or through the phone or direct contact, to keep their trust
 Update any requests made by the customers into the system to complete the task.
 Giving appropriate and relevant information to the customers about their situations (financial situation or handover...etc.) and developing rapport with the customer base
 Greet the clients by name, have knowledge of account ownership, be responsive and timely with correspondence and problem resolution, and display a caring attitude. ..

Sales manager at Alcatel, Rabat- Morocco
  • Morocco - Rabat
  • June 2002 to April 2003

. negotiate with clients, book appointment, attend meetings, discuss proposals and perform demonstrations of the company’s goods and services. Their job allows them to travel extensively to client locations.
And the following tasks:
• Attending exhibitions and other trade shows
• Negotiating payment and pricing
• Developing sales strategies
• Following up on business leads and referrals
• Travelling to various client locations
• Meeting sales targets
• Conducting presentations and product demonstrations
• Trading with SME's and Corporates

Education

Bachelor's degree, Marketing
  • at American University
  • May 2003
Diploma, Science
  • at Military. High school
  • July 1999

Specialties & Skills

Customer Handling
Business Ideas
Sale Negotiation
Real Property
Team Management
Negotiation
New Business Development
Business Strategy
Business Planning
Marketing Strategy
Project Planning
Market Research
Sales Management
Budgets
Customer Service
Team Building
Business Development
Team Leadership
property management

Languages

English
Expert
French
Expert
Arabic
Expert

Training and Certifications

Yes (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2010
Valid Until:
September 2010
no (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2009
Valid Until:
June 2009
yes (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2002
Valid Until:
November 2002

Hobbies

  • Sky diving, diving, traveling,Latino dance, Attending events,