Business Development Executive
Location: N/A
Department: Strategic Sales
Reporting to: Lead Business Development Manager
Responsible for: N/A
Working hours: N/A
Compensation: N/A
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Job Description
The Business Development position is a tenured sales function and provides vision and execution in maintaining, identifying and creating markets for the sale of Intercall services and solutions. This position should combine a minimum 70% focus on new business creation and 30% on supervision and delegation of existing business growth through account management.
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
- Maintain sales activity to develop target market of new business accounts to be inserted into the Goldmine system
- Create new sales opportunities and channels for the sale of services and solutions from the allocated target accounts.
- Manage personal quota targets and quarterly objectives to completion.
- Develop and protect your company pipeline by ensuring opportunities meet qualification criteria and are at a level of 10 x your monthly quota.
- Develop a database of target company blueprints in Goldmine.
- Support customer services and sell through solution sales to designated database/s.
ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT
- Track on going progress of existing accounts working with the Strategic Account Manager/Executive.
- Understand and have access to business unit short and long rangeplanning objectives and understand the impact that your sales activity will have on these plans.
- Provide the documentation and communication necessary to customers to complete their integration into full service.(Working with the Account Manager/Executive and Sales Specialists)
PEOPLE MANAGEMENT CONTROL AND REPORTING
- Maintain proper and accurate forms and reporting.
- Maintain the Goldmine database with the correct data and quality.
- Provide ongoing reviews of account status with the assigned Account Manager/Executive.
- Provide ongoing coaching and support to the assigned Account
Manager/ Executive to develop and grow existing accounts.
ACTIVITY AND TARGETING
- Meet and exceed quota, activity and growth targets
- Grow appointments and activity across the sales base.
- Meet a minimum level of meetings and KPIs per week. (See KPIs)
STRATEGY AND FORECASTING
- Determine and articulate sales strategies by designing and completing a monthly sales forecast.
- Provide sales forecasts, strategies and solutions agreed with your line manager to be useful.
- Handle mail/correspondence, faxes and other introductory materials, which must be transmitted to the customer/prospect.
- Have a solid understanding of computer/software usage and continue to make effective use of like-type tools.
- Perform other assigned tasks as requested.
- Participate in sufficient training and support to effectively and efficiently represent the company, its capabilities and value added advantages.
Equipment or Special Tools Used
- Personal Computer in a networked Windows environment
- Fax machine
- Other software: Excel, MS-Word Goldmine
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required
- Preferably a college degree or comparable work/life experience.
- Minimum three years plus years of sales experience in a closely related industry (four to six years plus for senior positions).
- Expert knowledge of direct sales.
- Proven expertise in Consultative Selling and Sales Closing.
- Excellent internal communications skills and effective communicator.
- Strong interpersonal skills: negotiating, influencing, and dealing effectively with people.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Professional manner, dress, and appearance. Maintain a customer facing presentation and ensure that you meet with a traditional business dress code, which includes suit and neck tie for men and acceptable business dress for women.
- High personal integrity, ethics and credibility.
- Positive Mental Attitude.
Environmental Conditions
- Hazards: Normal office environment
- Noise exposure: Moderate
- Lighting: Moderate to bright
- Temperature: Moderate
- Miscellaneous: Office environment
Relation to other Jobs
- Sources for employees: Internal/External
- Supervision received from: Lead Business Development Manager/
- Head of Strategic Business Development
- Key internal Contacts: Other Business Development Managers, Account Managers/Executives, Operations Manager, Billing Team, Finance Team, Implementations, Marketing
- Key external Contacts: Senior Management of Customers