Business Development & Operations Coordinator
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A Food and Beverage Company is hiring a commercially driven Business Development & Operations Coordinator in Ikeja, Lagos. The role focuses on field-based sales, building relationships with event planners, caterers, restaurants, corporates, and retail channels, and supporting order coordination and deliveries. This is a full-time position requiring strong follow-through, digital tools skills, and active pipeline management.
- Field-based business development role, not desk-based marketing
- Location: Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
- Full-time employment
- Targets events, corporates, restaurants, supermarkets, and retail channels
- Requires WhatsApp, Instagram, email, spreadsheets, and Zoho skills
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- PreferredPractical evidence in sales, hospitality, retailThe tags and summary point to skills connected with this role.
- RequiredAvailability to work in IkejaThe vacancy is associated with this location.
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Original source description
Job Title: Business Development & Operations Coordinator
Business Development & Operations Coordinator in a Food and Beverage Company - Peridot Forte Solutions Consulting
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Sep 21, 2026, 9:00 AM
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Peridot Forte Solutions Consulting - Our client at a Food and Beverage Company is recruiting a commercially driven, energetic, and resourceful candidate to drive business growth by identifying new opportunities, building relationships, converting leads into sales, and supporting the operational activities of the business.
They are recruiting to fill the position below:
Location: Ikeja, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Summary
The candidate will be expected to actively engage the market, build relationships with potential customers and partners, represent the brand at relevant events, manage sales opportunities from initial contact through conversion, and maintain strong follow-up to generate repeat business.
The successful candidate will play a key role in growing the business by identifying and pursuing new customers, partnerships, and bulk-order opportunities across events, corporate organisations, restaurants, food-service businesses, supermarkets, and retail channels.
This is not a desk-based marketing role.
Responsibilities
- Build relationships with event planners, caterers, restaurant operators, corporate decision-makers, procurement teams and other relevant partners.
- Prospect independently through field visits, introductions, networking, research, tastings and product sampling.
- Represent the brand at relevant events, pop-ups, conferences and other sales opportunities.
- Identify and pursue new customers, partnerships and bulk-order opportunities across the priority channels.
- Support customer communication, order coordination, deliveries and other operational
Requirements
- behind the sale.
- Move opportunities from first contact through sampling/presentation, proposal, follow-up, order and repeat business.
- Maintain an active sales pipeline with clear next actions and consistent follow-through.
- Gather useful market feedback on customer preferences, pricing, competitors and emerging sales opportunities.
- Good working knowledge of WhatsApp, Instagram, email, spreadsheets, and business systems such as Zoho
- Highly organised with strong follow-through and the ability to manage multiple leads, customer follow-ups, orders, deliveries, and deadlines
- Proactive and commercially minded, with the ability to independently identify and pursue new business opportunities
- Proven ability to identify opportunities, build a sales pipeline, convert leads into customers, and generate repeat business
Experience
in food & beverage, hospitality, catering, events, FMCG, or another consumer-facing business is an added advantage
Strong interpersonal and communication skills with confidence engaging different customers and decision-makers
First Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field with 2 – 4 years of relevant
in business development, sales, partnerships, account management, or a similar customer-facing commercial role
Strong sales, networking, relationship-building, and negotiation skills
Strong market awareness and ability to gather and communicate useful customer and competitor insights
Comfortable with field activities and attending events, including evenings and weekends when required
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send CVs to:
peridotforte@gmail.com
using the job title as the subject of the email.
Application
Deadline:
2nd October, 2026.
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Lagos State and 1 other location
Lagos State
,
Ikeja