As our Business Development team grows, we’re looking for a Business Development Coordinator to help manage our client pipeline, process inbound leads, and set our BD team up for success. 

Our ideal candidate has 1-2 years of experience in a business development or sales role in either an agency setting or with a similar professional services company.

Responsibilities

• Actively participating and contributing to BD meetings and calls
• Frequently communicating with and engaging with a set of prospect and client relationships through emails, calls, and meetings to move deals forward
• Helping the business development and delivery teams prep for meetings and following up with additional materials
• Drafting and writing project proposals and responding to RFPs
• Solutioning with Delivery Team to create project plans and manage scoping tasks
• Researching our clients, competitors and our target markets
• Making informed decisions about our sales strategy to help drive our business development goals
• Designing processes to equip Sidebench’s BD team with the necessary tools to execute on our sales strategy
• Leading internal meetings and creating proper agendas to maximize time and efficiency during meetings 
• Maintaining our CRM with current lead, contact, and deal information

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience in sales, business development or account management 
• High emotional intelligence and an ability to be very “politely persistent”
• Quick learner with a natural tendency to ask intelligent questions with expertise and/or valuable content embedded in each prospect and client communication
• Genuine interest in technology and business and the desire to learn more about B2B marketing
• The ability to work independently and go above and beyond the original scope of their tasks
• Strong research and analytical skills and problem solving ability
• Extreme attention to detail and the ability to properly draft and edit copy
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• A positive attitude and remains responsive, enthusiastic, adaptable, and incredibly pro-active
• Ability to produce detailed and well-organized documentation (have a knack for effectively summarizing concepts, thoughts, and research)
• Strong CRM experience or experience with similar task management platforms