Africa Business Development Manager - Health Insurance at Cigna

What would a typical day look like?

As a Business Development Manager, you own your region, develop your strategy and execute this. You can imagine, two days hardly ever look the same. A typical day might include the following:

• Building relations within your markets to develop concrete business opportunities and create new sales leads
• Set everything aside to close a deal.
• Prepare presentations & proposals
• Building a healthy pipeline and execute on it in order to close your deals
• Attend and participate during broker events
• Review and adapt your regional strategy to maximize results
• Finish a quote before the deadline while following internal processes.

What skills do you need?

• Do you have 5 years of experience in sales and you have strong commercial, networking and negotiation skills?  Great start! That’s essential for the role.
• Do you also have a health insurance background?
• Finally if you are a driven by closing business and get excited by exceeding your sales, you might just be the perfect fit.

You will love this job if you…

• Love sales and get motivated by working with targets
• Are well-organised in following up on your sales leads
• Nurture relations and enjoy developing them
• Are triggered by the opportunity to map and adapt our sales strategy
• Feel in your natural habitat at networking events and in presentation rooms
• Have a strong sense of accountability and like to be empowered
• Like to work independently, but also value the input of others
• Can cope with the stress of deadlines and taking decisions in unexpected situations
• Are agile and enjoy adapting to an ever changing environment

Cigna can offer you…

• A challenging job in an international and diverse context
• Trust to fill in this position in your personal way and to the best of your abilities
• A dynamic team and sounding board, a director who will mentor and coach you
• A challenging job in an international and growing enterprise
• Market-related salary conditions
• A dynamic, young and entrepreneurial company culture that values and stimulates initiative, thrive on success and truly understands the concept of the lifetime value of a client.