Blessing Ebere Achu Email & Phone Number

Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria

eTrade for Women is an initiative, led by United Nations Centre for Trade and Development ( UNCTAD), to advance the empowerment of women through ICTs (SDG target 5.b). This new endeavor undertaken with the support of the Netherlands and in collaboration with eTrade for all partners aims at allowing more female digital entrepreneurs to make their voices heard in high-level political decision-making processes and to empower the next generation of female entrepreneurs in developing countries.

Lagos Island, Lagos, Nigeria

Idozi Collective is a premium retail brand, focused on discovering and showcasing new and established designers across Africa that are sustainable and ethical, who possess high quality in design, and are easily accessible.Idozi bridges the gap between African talent and discerning global markets who value technique and craftsmanship; the collective is curated for this specific taste via a multi-purpose retail channel.Our physical store represents the brand universe of each designer it collaborates with, by creating an immersive shopping experience for the consumer.At Idozi, our work celebrates the beauty and essence of Ethical Fashion from Africa.

34 Ajao Road Off Ogunlana Drive Surulere Lagos

Providing strategic direction for the growth and development of the company.

Lagos Nigeria

Farindoki Innovation Lab - FiLab is a platform to inspire, foster Innovation and Entrepreneurship that would impact and empower the world.I am responsible for identifying and driving business growth of the Lab.Identify potential partnership opportunities.

Ikoyi Lagos Nigeria

• Development of existing key strategic accounts and formulating account growth plans; also responsible for new business development across different industries • Develop relationships with clients and provide a high standard of customer service and support• Respond to requests for sales proposals, providing information to clients in a timely manner• Complete and provide sales reports as required• Provide performance and forecast information to inform and direct sales strategy• Achieve budget targets, activity levels, as agreed with Sales Director• Review sales quotations as required to ensure sales opportunities are maximized and cross-selling additional services where the opportunity arises• Understand external business environment, including key competitors, developments in technology, economic/political/social drivers • Provide critical insights using analytics: translate data into recommendations to improve product, campaign, and business performance.• Provide actionable and insightful information from advanced statistical modeling, data mining, segmentation, customer profiling and quantitative analyses.• Identify media cross-channel relationship, industry lead generation trends, and retention or acquisition opportunities.• Assess opportunities to improve customer profitability, validate and track model performance, and assess customer behavior over time.• Develop and direct a variety of fact-based marketing tools and analysis that aid Senior Management in making decisions relating to the creation or expansion of new or existing services.• Utilize and develop new analytical techniques and evaluate potential markets and market conditions.o Participate in strategic marketing decisions for a variety of customer segments, advertising, direct marketing, and promotional issues.

Lagos Nigeria

Account Management:• Development of new revenue opportunities via existing large accounts, successfully interacted with senior managers and procurement analysts in accounts managed.• Grew total managed account portfolio from seven to thirty companies while moving the revenue stream 80% upwards. .• Maintained strong relationships with key contacts in existing accounts and developed new accounts.• Developed and executed initiatives that increased market share in the managed accounts from 35% to 85%• Thoroughly document all activities performed on behalf of the customer in appropriate paper and electronic mechanismBusiness Development • Developed annual sales/business development plan in support of organizational strategy and objectives.• Leveraged on my industry-specific knowledge to develop strategic business development plans and B2B sales strategies.• Provided strategic insights of market conditions, pricing to the design team when responding to RFQs.• Provided quotes on major projects and manage new account transitions to customers and developed strong long-lasting relationships with them.• Present to customers technical information on solutions offered• Managed client contracts and support post launch contractual agreements.

Lagos Nigeria

• Identified and developed new business opportunities, negotiating terms of sales and service level agreements with prospective customers.• Ensured that prospects are aware of how all the solutions offered by SSL best fit their current and future needs. • Handled all brokerage between foreign partners and customers in negotiating, support service level agreement terms.• Coordinated Sales strategies, prepared quotations, proposals, weekly update reports on Sales forecast and pipelines; and preparing sales invoices.• Products under portfolio include: Enterprise /Infrastructure and Security Management Solution, McAfee Antivirus Products, Bandwidth Management Solutions, Citrix- Application Delivery & Virtualization Solutions, Helpdesk Solutions (BMC) HR and Accounting, Cisco, and Checkpoint Firewall solution

Lagos

• Followed-up on new accounts by ensuring that expectations are met on the products. Coordinated and participated in Technical Presentations directed at generating new sales leads for the company. • Drove revenue by over 80% within the period of employment• Handled Office Managerial functions and ensured day-to-day running of the office.• Handled performance evaluation for unit’s staff and all external correspondence to the company• Products under portfolio include: Sage range of products (X3, Accapac, Evolution, Payroll, Personnel)

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