The Role
Drive business growth by generating and validating B2B leads, building sales pipelines, pitching consulting services, scoping client needs, preparing proposals and quotations, negotiating contracts, developing partnerships, and maintaining client and stakeholder relationships. Collaborate with practice and project teams to design solutions, assess implementation, gather feedback, and identify service innovations. The role targets executive and middle-management audiences and requires strong consultative selling, presentation, relationship-building, and communication skills in English and Arabic.
Summary Generated by Built In
Drive Business growth and innovation with CID, Join Our Team as a Business Development Associate if you can :
- Generate
and validate leads with private sector clients
- Build
and develop a pipeline of business development opportunities with private
sector clients
- Pitch
CID’s corporate Practice areas and services to Clients, primarily focused on
executive and middle management
- Gain
in-depth understanding of client needs and develop detailed and thorough
briefing of required scope/intervention
- Manage
the business development process from lead generation and validation,
technical scoping and financial quotation, to contract negotiation and
closure
- Build
partnerships to allow CID to expand its service offerings
- Work closely with practice leads in CID to design
winning solutions that address Client needs/pain points and provide a clear
value-for-money
- Build
and maintain long-lasting and effective relationships with Clients,
consultants, partners, and key stakeholders
- Structure
and negotiate commercial terms of the projects with Clients
- Work
closely with project teams to assess implementation, ensuring consistent
feedback and service development
- Research and propose
service innovation to meet market needs
Requirements
- 5-8 years
of experience in consultative
selling or marketing in a B2B environment, including but not limited to:
account management in a marketing agency; strategy and/or management
consulting; business development, or solution architects in IT services.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Political
Science, or relevant degrees
- Demonstrated experience presenting and
pitching confidently to C-suite and middle management audiences.
- Proven track record of nurturing
long-lasting client and stakeholder relationships.
- Demonstrated ability to build and grow
a strong network of clients, consultants, and partners.
- Proven experience building external
partnerships that expand the organization's service offerings.
- Critical
thinking and problem solving abilities
- Ability
to draft and develop professional documents and presentations
- Perfect
command of spoken and written English and Arabic
Skills Required
- 5–8 years of experience in consultative selling or B2B marketing, including account management, consulting, business development, or IT services solution architecture
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Political Science, or a relevant field
- Experience presenting and pitching confidently to C-suite and middle-management audiences
- Track record of nurturing long-lasting client and stakeholder relationships
- Ability to build and grow a strong network of clients, consultants, and partners
- Experience building external partnerships that expand service offerings
- Critical thinking and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to draft and develop professional documents and presentations
- Perfect command of spoken and written English and Arabic
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The Company
What We Do
CID Consulting is a Cairo-based boutique strategy and implementation consultancy serving private- and public-sector leaders across Egypt and the wider MENA region. It helps organizations, individuals, and communities grow, communicate effectively, and achieve sustainable change through reform-program design, restructuring, project management, and development work. Its projects span economic growth, human development, sustainability, education, tourism, agribusiness, and other sectors for global and local clients.
