Business Development Associate

United Staffing Associates is a privately-owned staffing firm, which offers comprehensive staffing solutions to a variety of businesses of all sizes and industries. We streamline hiring processes by providing expert recruitment and workforce management services and enhance productivity and growth goals.

The ideal candidate is a creative problem solver at heart who thrives in a team environment. You will help manage and oversee relationships with new and existing partners through high-touch networking, lead generation, and market research to cover our Santa Maria, San Luis Obispo and Paso Robles territories.

• Establish and achieve sales quotas and goals.
• Own the entire proposal process: identify customer's needs, develop win themes, and produce complete proposals.
• Assess the competitive landscape and track key market trends and developments.
• Create target lists of prospective clients and engage with vigor.
• Provide administrative support as well as excellent customer service and smooth communications.
• Enter and maintain documentation of prospective client progress in the database using your organizational skills to create sales pipeline.

• Must possess the ability to thrive under pressure to meet hard deadlines.
• Exhibit exceptional business acumen and an entrepreneurial mindset.
• Exceptional industry knowledge and/or the ability to quickly learn about the staffing industry and the business development function of the organization.
• Ability to interact with others in a salesperson capacity by demonstrating successful skills of persuasion communicating with people outside the company; representing the company to customer, the public, government, and other external sources.
• Requires well-developed presentation skills.
• Must be highly functional in a team environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Highly organized with excellent attention to detail.

• A minimum of 2 years experience in a progressively responsible sales position.
• Experience in a recruiting related industry a plus.
• Completion of formal sales training provided by external resources a plus.
• Proficiency in MS Office applications, Word, and Excel required.
• Knowledge of arithmetic, statistics and other applications.
• Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills required.
• Demonstrated excellence in time management and organizational skills, attention to detail.