Business Development Manager

AMI is looking for an ambitious talented and entrepreneurial Business Development Manager to drive the growth of our workplace learning and corporate training business in Uganda. The Business Development Manager will work to rapidly and aggressively build our workplace learning and corporate training business across Uganda with an initial focus on Kampala to establish market leadership both through direct sales to companies and channel/referral partnerships. S/he must be a driven self-starter; a data-savvy professional with great people and project skills and the ability to analyse an organisation understand its learning and development needs and work with our world-class learning design team to scope and sell a solution.

This role is ideal for a high-performing business development professional who thrives in consultative enterprise sales takes full ownership of results and is motivated by closing deals.

Business Development

• Strengthen AMIs pipeline of partner organizations and businesses (B2B) across Uganda
  

• Identify and generate leads through direct outreach networking and through partnerships
  

• Manage the full sales cycle including prospecting contacting nurturing and closing deals
  

• Make presentations negotiate and close deals with support from senior staff
  

• Upsell AMI products to existing clients
  

• Work closely with the rest of the Business Development and marketing teams to develop and improve on best practices & processes
  

• Collaborate with the marketing team to identify opportunities to build AMIs brand and presence in Uganda in order to drive inbound leads
  

Client management

• Work with program management teams to manage client relationships throughout the sales cycle and beyond
  

• Manage client contract renewals and pricing
  

• Support partner organizations in marketing workshops and other AMI products to constituents
  

Requirements

Education and Experience

• A minimum of 5 years in consultative sales or B2B business development experience with a preference for Enterprise technology based solutions
  

• An undergraduate degree in Business Marketing or any related field
  

• Demonstrated experience selling complex high-value solutions (e.g. services programmes or solutions that require stakeholder buy-in rather than transactional selling)
  

• Hands-on experience with outbound business development including cold calling follow-ups and proactive pipeline generation
  

• Experience managing the full sales cycle from lead generation and qualification through proposal development negotiation and closing
  

• Direct experience working on client accounts and nurturing client relationships
  

• Proven ability to engage influence and sell to senior decision-makers including CEOs Directors and Executive Management teams
  

• Experience writing business documents such as proposals and partnership presentations
  

• Experience working in entrepreneurial or high-growth environment (essential)
  

• Experience working with CRM systems sales trackers and performance dashboards to manage leads and measure progress
  

• Prior exposure to enterprise clients corporate partnerships or institutional customers is a strong advantage
  

Skills and Attributes

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills with the confidence to articulate value clearly and persuasively at senior leadership level
  

• Strong consultative selling skills including needs diagnosis solution framing and value-based selling
  

• Excellent time management and prioritisation skills with the ability to structure work independently to achieve ambitious targets
  

• High level of commercial acumen including pipeline management forecasting and opportunity prioritisation
  

• Strong relationship-building skills capable of developing long-term client partnerships rather than one-off transactions
  

• Ability to learn quickly absorb new products sectors and value propositions and translate them into compelling sales narratives
  

• A drive and tenacity to develop completely new sales leads through direct outreach tactics
  

• Go-getter mindset with a strong bias for action and proactively pursuing opportunities rather than waiting for inbound leads
  

• Highly resilient and persistent with the ability to handle rejection maintain momentum and continue pushing toward targets
  

• Strong ownership mentality operating autonomously with minimal supervision while remaining accountable for results
  

• Self-driven and disciplined able to set personal targets manage energy and deliver consistently in a fast-paced environment
  

• Team-oriented willing to support colleagues share insights and contribute to the overall success of the business unit
  

• Growth-oriented and curious continuously experimenting with new approaches tactics and channels to drive results
  

• Comfortable with ambiguity and change able to adapt quickly as the enterprise business unit evolves
  

• Enthusiasm for AMIs mission to drive prosperity and growth in Africa by enabling ambitious businesses to thrive through practical tools and training
  

Benefits

A high-impact diverse and ambitious team with common values:

• Be the best: We work really hard are proud of what we do and love delighting our clients with quality.
  
• Own it: We step up to the task never pass the buck and hold ourselves accountable for delivering results.
  
• Push the limits: We ask why embrace failure and try new things. We never settle.
  
• Do whats right: We act with integrity confront dishonesty treat people fairly and strive to contribute to the greater good
  
• Always care: We dont have ego its always team before me. We are kind we celebrate each others success and we care enough to give honest feedback.
  A dynamic office & team life:
  
• Monthly team social events and yearly offsite
  
• Regular learning and coaching opportunities
  

• A hybrid working model