Business Development Manager

Remote

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Business Development Managers typically work for corporations across a variety of industries to carry out tasks that support business growth. They use their experience working in business and sales to hire professionals for sales, marketing and business development roles. Their job is to analyze market trends and identify areas for improvement. This could include obtaining new suppliers to elevate product quality and coordinating new marketing initiatives to expand the company’s customer base. They may also support upper management by organizing meetings between clients and company executives.

What does a Business Development Manager do?

A Business Development Manager, or Business Development Executive, is responsible for overseeing the implementation of business objectives among their company’s sales, marketing and business development professionals. Their duties include comparing current sales numbers to desired quotas, delegating sales and marketing tasks among team members and meeting with upper management to discuss their progress.

Responsibilities

A Business Development Manager should be able to fulfill various duties and responsibilities. The following are some duties and responsibilities a Business Development Manager should be able to execute:

Maintain current client relationship and identifying areas for potential clients
Contacting potential clients to establish a business relationship and meet with them
Develop new sales areas and improving sales through various methods
Research the latest in the business industry and creating new opportunities to expand business
Collaborate with sales and design team to ensure requirements are met, such as sales numbers and profit goals
Train junior salespeople to improve sales goals and meet expectations
Strong understanding of company products or services as well as business position and competition to keep business competitive

Required Skills

A competitive Business Development Manager will have certain skills and qualifications, including:

Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business or a similar area
About five years of proven sales experience in business or a related area
Exceptional communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal, in order to express technical and nontechnical concepts clearly and concisely
Technical skills required to create proposals and find solutions to meet client requirements, such as using software programs and machines
Excellent organizational skills to meet goals and set priorities
Be proactive, organized and handle work under stressful and uncertain environments

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