Business Development and Growth Analyst
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About the Role
CFTE seeks a Business Development Analyst in Abu Dhabi to drive regional expansion through strategy, sales, and program delivery. Ideal for candidates with experience in fast-paced environments like startups, banking, or consulting, and a passion for fintech education.
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Responsibilities
- Create strategies to facilitate CFTE’s growth in the region
- Drive business development across identifying opportunities, managing sales funnels, and closing deals
- Explore and analyse client needs to design cutting edge educational programmes
- Collect and analyse feedback from clients and participants to refine programme offerings
Requirements
- Strong work ethic and passion for making a difference
- Ability to think on your feet, solve problems creatively, and learn quickly
- Entrepreneurial, proactive attitude with hunger to grow
- Previous experience in fast paced environments, startups, banking, management consulting, or venture capital
- Exceptional communication skills
- Impeccable attention to detail
- Strong competencies using digital tools
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About Us
- The Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CFTE) is on a mission to empower the financial industry with the knowledge and skills required to thrive in the rapidly changing world of finance.
What makes CFTE special?
- Our commitment to the principle 'learn to learn' isn't just a slogan. It's our ethos.
Job Summary
- We are on the lookout for an exceptional Business Development Analyst to join our Abu Dhabi office and spearhead CFTE’s ambitious expansion efforts in the region.
What you'll do
- Create strategies to facilitate CFTE’s growth in the region.
- Drive business development across identifying opportunities, managing inbound and outbound sales funnels, managing relationships with clients and partners, creating project proposals and closing deals.
- Explore and analyse client needs to design cutting edge educational programmes.
- Collect and analyse feedback from clients and participants to continuously refine and improve CFTE’s programme offerings.
What you’ll bring
- Strong work ethic and a passion for making a difference.
- The ability to think on your feet, solve problems creatively, and learn quickly.
- An entrepreneurial, proactive, attitude with the hunger to grow.
- Previous experience in fast paced environments, startups, banking, management consulting, or venture capital.
- Exceptional communication skills.
- Impeccable attention to detail.
- Strong competencies using digital tools.
Why join us
- Be part of a driven, hard working team on a mission to shape the future of finance.
- Gain exposure and learn from senior leaders of financial organisations, central banks, regulators and rapidly growing startups.
- Work on some of the most interesting topics today: innovation, technology disruption, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and many others.
- Make a meaningful impact to a fast growing company and benefit from significant opportunities for career progression.
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