Business Development Manager; Remote Option

Business Development Manager (Remote Option) About the job Business Development Manager (Remote Option)

• Supports the VP/Director of Business Development in all business development and sales activities.
• Collaborates with the VP/Director of Business Development to determine the overall marketing and sales strategy.
• Supports the development of strategic planning, implementation, and integration for the business development group.
• Effectively manages customer relationships. Earns trust quickly and maintains the highest integrity.
• Negotiates effectively; holds influential ability; has a strong interpersonal skillset.
• Development of high-level relationships with targeted industry accounts and peers and orchestrates available resources to effectively manage relationships.
• Defines business development initiatives to support the business strategy and plans their completion; then as needed implements changes and interventions to achieve sales targets.
• Aligns activities to achieve or exceed targeted results.
• Owns relationship of customer for proposals and active projects.
• Identifies all stakeholders and manages their expectations and concerns.
• Proactively researches and prioritizes potential customers.
• Applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organizations goals. Interprets and applies understanding of key financial indicators to make business decisions.
• Attends meetings and trade exhibitions to maintain or expand upon expertise of our industry.
• Supports the development of the business development budget and resource allocation, including the management of expenses.
• Provides leadership for team members, focusing on growth, development, and knowledge transfer.
• Collaborates with the Proposals team to determine the overall bid strategy.
• Develops long-term customer relationships and increase partnerships for the advancement of the business. Focuses on solving customer problems through developing solutions with the team.
• Business development activities associated with customers included but not limited to; travel to customers place of business or venue, meeting with customer and providing prepared presentation of capabilities, entertaining customers, team building events with customers, recruitment of business, etc.
• Support proposal activities to ensure customers expectation will be met and scope of services are complete. This may include pre and post bid meetings and job walks.
• Coordinates with legal team for reviewing T&Cs and resolves all business decisions.

Additional Responsibilities

• Communicates the customers expectation for the request for proposal to the team and ensures fluid communication throughout the processing of the RFQ.
• Provides feedback from potential/existing customers to improve relationships and competitive proposals.
• Understands how the functions of other departments contribute to organizational goals, and how the market and other outside trends also impact organizational goals.
• Identifies prospective customers by using industry databases, business directories, following leads, attending trade show and conferences, and through other means.
• Populates all new/existing customer intelligence into related databases.
• Maintains contact with new and existing customers to identify upcoming proposals and deliver a detailed account strategy.
• Tracks and responds to future proposal inquiries from new and existing customers.
• Schedules follow up calls and meetings with Customer after proposals are submitted and provides feedback to the team.
• Delivers presentations of the company and capabilities at conferences, customer sites, and exhibitions.
• Identifies potential subcontractors that align with Beta Principles for competitively bidding projects and passes along contact information to the team.
• Supports technical and commercial offers with team including price, schedule, costs, scope, and clarifications / deviations.
• Supports effective internal communication within the business development, marketing, and alliance group, as well as throughout the company as a whole.
• Participates in weekly Business Development meetings and other monthly/quarterly meetings.
• Possesses a fundamental understanding of our services, people, processes, capabilities, and limitation in order to effectively communicate this information to potential customers for approval processes.
• Monitors market conditions and competitors services, effectiveness, and pricing. Conducts strategic research in support of the businesses designated market sectors and explores new growth markets and customers; conducts industry research and competitive analysis to evaluate potential opportunities to better align Beta for market power.
• Must be able to work with confidential information and ensure the security of this information.
• Ensures business development presentation quality meets or exceeds Beta and customer expectations.
• Interfaces with other department employees and customers on a regular basis. Encourages and develops teamwork within the department and across the…