Business Development Manager

Business Development Manager in Cape Town driving client acquisition and sales growth for Takealot Fulfilment Solutions. Responsibilities include delivering on sales targets, building and maintaining a robust sales pipeline focused on key strategic clients, conceptualising and executing new client acquisition strategies, performing needs analyses for potential clients, providing feedback to senior management on sourcing strategies and service delivery, managing data to create executable actions and reporting findings, collaborating with operational teams to relay client needs, working cross-functionally to optimise client partnerships, presenting to and building relationships with senior managers and clients, providing weekly/monthly performance reports around agreed SLAs, monitoring KPIs, and traveling within South Africa as required. Skills include strong negotiation, solutions-minded attitude, excellent communication and presentation skills, ability to develop senior-level relationships quickly, prioritisation and time management, adaptability to change, and experience in generating leads and growing business in logistics/e-commerce environments.