Assistant to Business Development Director

Job Description:

1. Assist the Business Development Director in daily business development, administrative, and coordination tasks.
2. Support client, partner, and prospect follow-ups to ensure ongoing communication and next steps are properly handled.
3. Prepare and organize business documents, proposals, presentations, company profiles, meeting notes, and other supporting materials.
4. Conduct basic market research, competitor research, and industry updates to support business opportunities and strategic planning.
5. Maintain and update client/prospect databases, partnership records, meeting schedules, and business development pipelines.
6. Coordinate meetings, appointments, business trips, and follow-up actions with internal teams, clients, partners, and external parties.
7. Work closely with teams to support ongoing projects, proposals, and business opportunities.
8. Monitor pending matters, deadlines, and progress updates, and report them regularly to the Business Development Director.
9. Handle confidential business information, documents, and communications professionally.
10. Support ad hoc tasks related to business development, partnership, client relations, and company growth initiatives.

Requirements:

1. Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, Marketing, Communication, International Business, or related field is preferred.
2. Minimum 1–3 years of experience as Business Development Assistant, Personal Assistant, Executive Assistant, Sales Admin, Marketing Admin, or similar role.
3. Good administrative, coordination, communication, and follow-up skills.
4. Able to prepare proposals, presentations, meeting notes, reports, and business-related documents.
5. Proficient in Microsoft Office / Google Workspace, especially PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Google Slides, Google Sheets, and Google Docs.
6. Good research skills, including market research, competitor research, and business information gathering.
7. Detail-oriented, organized, proactive, and able to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
8. Comfortable communicating with clients, partners, vendors, and internal teams.
9. Good problem-solving skills and willingness to support business matters hands-on.
10. Good English communication skills, both written and verbal.
11. Mandarin proficiency is a plus.