Business Development Manager (Management)
San Diego, CA, United States
The Purpose of This Role
The Business Development Manager (BDM) is the primary driver of new business development. Responsible for identifying, prospecting, and developing new client relationships and managing existing client relationships to maximize customer satisfaction and profitability. Develop and implement sales strategies for new account prospects, focusing primarily on higher margin prospects and new business opportunities within active and inactive accounts. Focus on maximizing and expanding current client relationships in addition to expanding business opportunities within active and inactive accounts. Maintain a close working relationship with branch to drive activity/results through the leveraging and consistent application of best practice sales processes and initiatives.
Position Requires/Demands
Proven experience in developing sales strategies, conducting cold calls, making sales presentations, closing techniques and developing service and pricing proposals.
Ability to call on the highest levels of decision makers in an organization with confidence for the areas represented (e.g., VP IT, CFO, Director R & D, CIO, etc)
Demonstrated success working in fast-paced, highly competitive, deadline oriented environment.
Self-motivated individual who exhibits sense of urgency in all sales and service related activity.
Exceptional communication, presentation, follow-up, negotiation, and closing skills. Strong emphasis on the ability to listen and present appropriate solutions.
Ability to establish and build relationships quickly within all levels of management at Manpower and within customer accounts.
Ability to develop account teams and work effectively in team environments.
Demonstrated leadership skills, initiative, and creativity with the ability to identify and convey successful sales/marketing approaches and techniques.
PC and Internet skills, with knowledge of Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Primary Responsibilities
Spends a minimum of 80% of time engaged in outside sales activities such as establishing and developing new client relationships in order to diversity client base and gain market share, assuring the company sales methodology and process is being utilized.
Develops account sales plans. Identifies prospects and develops sales strategies to secure new business. This may include sales calls, competitive analysis, coordination of presentations and proposals, direct mail campaigns, and follow up activity coordinated within that plan/approach.
Conducts prospect, active, and inactive account sales calls both independently and jointly with leadership to maintain prospect pipeline sufficient to achieve new business targets.
Functions as primary sales resource on identified accounts, manages overall profitability in targeted accounts and responsible for creating the account plan and coordinating the approach and communication strategy with leadership as necessary.
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