BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT JOB DESCRIPTION
Business Development roles focus on driving revenue growth through strategic partnerships, market expansion, and client acquisition, combining sales execution, data-driven insights, and cross-functional collaboration to scale sustainable business success.

An Overview of Business Development Job Description Responsibilities and Qualifications
1. The Business Developer owns partner growth and sales performance across a defined region, spanning lead generation, partner management, sales enablement, and pipeline execution, with impact on revenue expansion, partner experience excellence, and consistent delivery of premium brand standards.
Business Developer Roles:
- Ensure Sales and Growth.
- Generate new leads: identify new potential sales and partners with excellent customer support.
- Work with activities according to business action plans; traffic, conversion and average ticket value.
- Provide data and guides to help the Business Development team.
- Manage sales tracking tools and report on important information.
- Maintain record of sales trends.
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with partners and their stores.
- Stay up-to-date with new products and feature launches and ensure our partners sales team are on board.
- Communicate new products, service opportunities, special developments, and information.
- Review pending orders and specific customers’ requests to ensure excellent customer service and customer experience.
- Identify Improvements for Sales and Training.
- Identify sales skills deficiencies and suggest sales process improvements.
- Evaluate strengths and weaknesses to identify training needs.
- Plan, implement, and manage sales educational workshops.
- Oversee sales training material and suggest improvements.
- Follow guidelines, use tools and ensure a structured way of working when it comes to sales, visual merchandising and store concept.
- Keep a clear agenda when visiting partners with such as in-store trainings, information, promotion, etc.
Business Developer Experience and Requirements:
- Proven successful experience in Sales.
- Hands-on experience with ERP and CRM systems, Salesforce a big plus.
- Proficiency with MS Office Suite, particularly MS Excel.
- Proven successful track-record in B2B sales and negotiations.
- Proficiency with data analysis, forecasting, budgeting and proven ability to plan.
- Able to travel a great deal (approximately 50%) throughout the territory, and every now and again to-and-from Köping, Sweden.
- Excellent English - verbal and written communications skills.
- Exemplify a positive, calm, and professional demeanor.
- Able to meet sales goals with a high level of energy and enthusiasm.
- Strong analytical and multitasking skills.
- Team-player who is both self-motivated and able to motivate colleagues.
- Technically/database savvy.
2. The Business Development Manager drives ownership of growth strategy and client development, spanning market research, pipeline building, sales planning, and stakeholder engagement, with impact on revenue growth, client retention, and scalable business expansion.
Business Development Manager Key Responsibilities:
- Help come up with a development strategy for the business with growth objective in mind.
- Set milestones and make action plans for the same.
- Orient and motivate the staff and employees on weekly and monthly goals to keep them on the task.
- Focus on customer satisfaction plans and financial gain strategies.
- Promote the company’s image, product, and services.
- Attending meetings with prospective clients.
- Record sales, revenue, and invoices to analyze.
- Conducting research after assimilating data to better understand the requirements of the company and clientele.
- Ensure the best practices are used with all teams to better the workflow.
Business Development Manager Skills, Abilities and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in business administration or sales
- Prior experience as a development manager, sales executive, or in related fields.
- Basic computer skills and well versed with software like MS Office and CRM software.
- Excellent communication, people, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to network, negotiate and make a good rapport with clients.
- Ability to motivate sales and convince clients.
- Strong time management, multitasking, and organization skills.
3. The Business Development Manager owns the end-to-end Purchase-to-Pay process and procurement enablement scope, spanning process design, systems requirements, KPI management, and cross-functional support, with impact on operational efficiency, compliance, and data-driven decision making across Group Procurement.
Business Development Manager Duties:
- Develop, own, enhance and maintain the Purchase-to-pay process.
- Be the go-to person for all questions related to this process.
- Set business requirements on systems related to the Purchase-to-pay process.
- Support with business and activity planning for Group Procurement.
- Work with Procurement related KPI’s and targets.
- Develop and improve Group Procurement’s tools, templates and processes.
- Develop and analyse surveys and survey responses.
- Support with function-wide events such as Townhall gatherings.
- Ensure Group-wide compliance to Group Procurement’s processes.
- Be prepared to jump in and help with ad hoc Business development activities and initiatives.
Business Development Manager Requirements:
- 2-5 years of work experience.
- M.S. in Engineering or Business/Economics with a distinguished academic record (dual degree is meriting).
- Management Consulting Experience.
- Extensive digital experience - “digital native”.
- Project management experience.
- Prior experience with the Purchase-to-Pay process.
- Sourcing / Procurement experience is meriting.
- Experience of Agile way of working is meriting.
- High analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Fact-based and data driven.
- Strong sense of ownership.
- Confident in working independently.
- Strong drive and determination - “Can do attitude”.
- High determination and integrity.
- Humble and co-operative / team worker.
- Curious with an eagerness to learn.
- Communicative.
4. The Business Development Account Manager owns client acquisition and account growth across the healthcare/MD&D segment, spanning pipeline development, relationship management, and commercial strategy execution, with impact on revenue expansion, client retention, and market positioning.
Business Development Account Manager Functions:
- Identify new business opportunities and drive forward the development of such opportunities.
- Develop and nurture collaborative relationships with existing clients.
- Enhancing culture of innovation and reinforcing the reputation as the preferred MD&D company in the UAE.
- Representing in a professional and diligent manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to form strong working relationships.
- Developing marketing and promotional strategy and materials for the company, including brand management, advertising, and web and sales collateral.
- Assisting in preparation of long- and short-term marketing plans, pricing policies and sales budgets.
- Develop and supervise a team of business development or marketing professionals.
- Participate in a high level of client interaction to support the building and maintaining of commercial relationships upholding objectives for development and growth, and to ensure a good understanding of demands, expectations, and anticipate market changes as early as possible.
- Generating a high standard of service delivery and achieving successful outcomes for our clients to sustainably strengthen the revenue base.
- Capturing, sharing knowledge and maintaining effective communication
- Delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
Business Development Account Manager Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience of sales birth acquisition and account management within the MD&D / Healthcare market place
- Strong understanding of the MD&D / Healthcare and local market
- Robust track record in client acquisition and business development
- A team player with a 'can-do' attitude, polite, patient, diplomatic, and respectful
- Well-organized, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined and commercially astute
- Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills (both internal and external)
- Able to combine a strategic role while maintaining a very hands-on approach paying close attention to details
- Strong sense of professional integrity
- A strong team player with good communication and people management skills in a dynamic, fast-changing environment
- Degree (Bachelor or Masters) is desired
- Excellent (native) command of written and spoken English
With strong communication and client management abilities, a Business Job Description outlines key expectations and supports success in driving account growth and relationships.
5. The Business Development Assistant owns coordination and execution support across marketing and business development activities, spanning events, pitch materials, CRM management, and research, with impact on client engagement, brand consistency, and operational efficiency of the BD function.
Business Development Assistant Details:
- Assist with event planning and execution of seminars and receptions, industry conference and charitable sponsorships, speaking engagements, client entertainment and other events related to the Texas offices.
- Assist in the production of marketing collateral and pitch materials, responses to RFPs and client presentations, including proofreading, formatting (must have exceptional PowerPoint skills), editing, printing, binding and delivery.
- Coordinate with attorneys on biography updates and update attorney pitch and website bios accordingly.
- Work with external vendors on the ordering of promotional items and gifts. Submit purchasing requests through P+ software and coordinate with Purchasing team on orders.
- Manage information in the firm’s contact relationship management (CRM) system, including the review and creation of mailing lists used for direct mail campaigns.
- Conduct research and prepare intelligence reports on clients, potential clients, competitors and target industries.
- Help with survey responses and award submissions as needed.
- Provide general assistance to the BD Associate Director relating to the initiatives of the Texas offices and BD department.
- Provide administrative support to the Texas BD team as needed, including expense reports, phone support, filing, etc.
- Any other functions/duties as assigned by management
Business Development Assistant Skills, Abilities and Qualifications:
- Strong organizational and communication skills, with the ability to interact professionally with high-level attorneys, staff and guests of the firm.
- Proven ability to organize and prioritize a diverse range of assignments and projects.
- Ability to work independently while making intelligent, informed decisions. Kirkland demands quality work from every employee (often in high-pressure and deadline-driven scenarios), so you need to be able to multi-task and prioritize effectively.
- Strong project management skills and exceptional business acumen.
- Ability to handle ambiguity, influence others and find ways to move initiatives forward to meet critical deadlines and produce results.
- Meticulous writing and proofing skills and an aptitude for learning new software.
- A Bachelor’s degree is required, and an ideal candidate will have one to two years’ experience in the law firm environment.
- MS Office software proficiency, with expertise in PowerPoint, Word, and Excel are required.
- CRM/Database Software (e.g., InterAction, Salesforce, ContentPilot, etc.) experience are preferred.
- Working knowledge of Chrome River, Adobe Photoshop and other programs is a plus.
6. The Business Development Associate owns partner revenue growth and account development across digital and e-commerce channels, spanning client acquisition, relationship management, deal execution, and performance optimization, with impact on revenue expansion, partner success, and scalable monetization opportunities.
Business Development Associate Roles:
- Respond to partner and advertiser inquiries, create and sell media packages
- Identify potential clients and complete appropriate research on the prospective client’s business needs
- Develop relationships with new clients and maintain relationships with existing clients
- Monitor partner activity and analyze performance. Identify areas of improvement and recommend ways to increase revenue
- Achieve and consistently exceed revenue goals
- Create and maintain a list/database of prospective clients in the CRM tool
- Work cross functionally with various teams to develop tracking, reporting, new executions or other technical integration when necessary
- Collaborate with Business Development Managers or other associates on sales goals, planning, and forecasting
- Finds creative solutions to clients problems and issues
- Understands all of the company’s service offerings and clearly communicates them to clients and prospective clients
- Provide regular updates (daily, weekly, monthly) on partner performance
- Be the liaison between the advertising partner and internal teams while maintaining community integrity
- Travel to on-site partner meetings and select industry events to represent Slickdeals
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in fast-paced deadline-driven environment
- Creative problem solver, thinks outside of the box and can develop recommendations to grow campaigns
- Independent, takes initiative, enthusiastic, eager to learn
- Comfort with interacting with clients and maintaining a professional demeanor
Business Development Associate Abilities, Experience and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing or related field
- 1-2 years of experience in account management, brand management, performance marketing, digital marketing, sales or consulting
- Ability to learn quickly regarding new tools and platforms
- Must be metrics-driven
- Ability to manage complex projects and multi-task
- General computer and email proficiency (Google suite). Must also be proficient in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Experience working with Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies or finance industry
- General knowledge and passion for e-commerce
- Strong communication and delivery skills in writing and speaking, both internally and externally
- Skilled in collaborative management environment and ability to work and communicate with members of various teams
- Use of CRM tools, JIRA, Slack, and spreadsheets
7. The Business Development Coordinator owns coordination and administrative support across BD operations, spanning RFPs and pitch materials, CRM and data tracking, research, and event logistics, with impact on proposal quality, client engagement, and operational efficiency of the BD function.
Business Development Coordinator Details:
- Compile client and prospective client requested information and draft responses for requests for proposals (RFP’s) and pitches, track results and prepare summary reports
- Compile business and industry research in support of new business opportunities
- Track client information in the client relationship management (CRM) system
- Collect and coordinate matter tracking information in the firm’s central matter tracking system
- Coordinate client event logistics, including tracking RSVPs, preparing name tags, coordinating giveaways and gathering handouts
- Gather information and details for legal directory submissions
- Create and update business development collateral, including brochures, one-pagers and presentations
- Draft entries for legal awards and nominations
- Develop strong working relationships with practice attorneys and other members of the BD team
Business Development Coordinator Skills, Abilities and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree
- At least two (2) year of related work experience
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word)
- Familiarity with client relationship management (CRM) software
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to work under tight deadlines and prioritize responsibilities
- Ability to handle and maintain confidential information
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
8. The Business Development Engineer leads customer development and technical sales execution across assigned accounts, covering relationship management, opportunity identification, solution positioning, and contract negotiation, with impact on revenue growth, customer satisfaction, and delivery of tailored, market-aligned solutions.
Business Development Engineer Duties:
- Establish best relationship to customers over all levels of the organization by regular visits
- Be the first point of contact for all customer related requirements
- Identify and develop business opportunities
- Promote new products and technologies
- Support to convert business into sales by professional technical and commercial support
- Guide and lead contract negotiations with customers
- Communicate via reporting tools and coordinate the customer requirements with all operational functions within the company
- Report business opportunities via reporting tools, define Key for Success and cooperate with involved functional teams
- Prepare customer contract negotiations together with internal stakeholders
- Set-up target plan together with Business Development Management
- Propose new business models and co-operations with partners outside of the Value Network
- Work closely together with the Product Divisions to create customer specific products and solutions
Business Development Engineer Skills, Knowledge and Qualifications:
- University degree with a technical focus, Electrical Engineering or Electronics preferred
- Solid professional experience in Sales
- Proven sales skills and market and sales development knowledge
- Ability to build and maintain relationships with customers
- Profound knowledge in electronics systems and/or electronic components
- Good command in standard software (MS Office, Lotus Notes, etc.) and special business software (e.g. CRM tool)
- Basic knowledge in Quality Management
- Proficient spoken and written command of English language
- Intercultural competence coupled with good commercial skills
- Good communication skills and customer-orientated personality
- Willingness to make business trips within and outside of Europe
With strong technical knowledge and communication abilities, Business Development Skills and Experience support effective customer engagement and drive successful sales execution across international markets.
9. The Business Development Executive drives market expansion and revenue growth across products and channels, spanning opportunity identification, customer development, sales execution, and cross-functional coordination, with impact on customer base growth, profitability optimization, and scalable business performance.
Business Development Executive Roles:
- Competitor/Product research for new business opportunities
- Identify product improvements or new products by remaining updated on industry trends, market activities, and competitors
- Identify new business opportunities (products/services) and evaluate its business potential within Singapore
- Increasing customer base/reach
- Increasing customer value
- Build quality relationships with both existing and new customers/stakeholders
- Generating quotes, proposals and price lists for customers
- Conduct site visits or viewings to identify potential areas for expansion
- Planning and executing campaigns alongside marketing and operations team
- Handling sales-related administration matters (e.g. with accounts team to ensure prompt payment, with operations team to ensure accurate and timely fulfilment of orders)
- To provide timely sales support to customers, upselling and providing alternative solutions when appropriate
- Collation and extraction of data in analysis for profitability
- Track performance and maximize returns from existing contracts
- Prepares reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information
Business Development Executive Skills, Experience and Knowledge:
- Degree or Diploma in Business, Finance or related field
- Be resilient and a team player with a can-do attitude
- Self-starter, high level of initiative, proven proactive thinker
- Highly detail-oriented with superb organisational and multitasking skills
- Innovative and creative thinker
- Exceptional communication, verbal and written skills
- Has knowledge of F&B industry (preferably groceries/wholesale)
- Experience managing and optimizing online sales channels like Shopify, Grab, foodpanda, Deliveroo, Redmart, Amazon Fresh will be a huge added advantage.
- Prior experience in sales, particularly e-commerce sales, will be a huge added advantage
- Passionate about food and is familiar with food & dining trends
10. The Business Development Expert leads revenue growth and strategic client development, spanning opportunity generation, sales execution, relationship management, and go-to-market strategy, with impact on sustainable financial performance, client retention, and scalable business expansion.
Business Development Expert Functions:
- Have a compelling sales personality, and a hunger to chase and close new business from all leads
- Work together with the team to execute the best strategic and financial outcomes that ultimately drive profitable growth.
- Have in-depth knowledge of business products and value propositions.
- Deal promptly and professionally with all customer emails and telephone inquiries and provide daily feedback to the Managing Director
- Resolve or escalate any arising problems or complaints.
- Drive all campaigns
- Develop & execute growth strategies& processes focused both on financial gain, customer retention & satisfaction
- Communicate new product developments to existing & prospective clients
- Research organizations and individuals to find new business opportunities and set up meetings
- Plan, write, and prepare presentations, proposals & reports for clients
- Manage and retain relationships with existing clients
- Follow industry trends locally and internationally
- Negotiate with stakeholders
- Attend conferences, meetings, and industry events.
- Identify and map business strengths and customer needs
- Research business opportunities and viable income streams
- Report on the company’s successes and areas that need improvement
- Keep records of sales, revenue, invoices, etc. Develop entry-level staff into valuable salespeople
- Work closely with the Managing Director
Business Development Expert Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or related field.
- Experience in B2B development
- 3 years of experience or more in sales, marketing, or related field.
- Strong communication skills and IT fluency.
- Ability to manage complex projects and multi-task.
- Excellent organizational skills.
- Ability to flourish with minimal guidance, be proactive, and handle uncertainty.
- Comfortable using a computer for various tasks.
11. The Business Development Intern supports pipeline development and sales enablement across retail media, spanning lead generation, prospect research, data analysis, and cross-functional collaboration, with impact on pipeline growth, sales productivity, and early-stage customer engagement.
Business Development Intern Responsibilities:
- Learn about retail media product and messaging
- Learn about the tools we use to be successful
- Build internal relationships with Sales Operations and Marketing
- Leverage any opportunity to learn more about retail media
- Develop the sales prospect pipeline for retail media
- Conduct lead generating activities including outbound emails
- Support and follow up inbound sales leads from prospective customers
- Support Business Development achieve their customer meeting goals
- Learn about prospects’ goals and critical pain points
- Help prospects understand our value proposition
- Fill the gaps as needed (utility player)
- Data analysis and business analytics
- Work with your mentor to set your sales development goals
Business Development Intern Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Business/Economics related field required
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills required: verbal and written
- Excellent organisational skills including prioritising, scheduling, time management, and meeting deadlines
- Team oriented but with the ability to work independently
- Flexibility and ability to work autonomously in a demanding and ambiguous environment
- Fast learner and self-initiative personality
- Curious and challenger mentality
12. The Business Development Leader leads strategic pipeline development and complex deal execution across key accounts and industries, spanning client relationship management, solution design, and competitive proposal leadership, with impact on revenue growth, win rates, and long-term client partnerships.
Business Development Leader Functions:
- Develop a strong pipeline of opportunities within new and existing accounts within the portfolio, using strong industry executive relationships.
- Execution of CGI processes to close opportunities and deliver targeted revenue amounts.
- Establish peer-level (trusted) relationships with clients for future opportunities, and to be proactive in communicating innovative solutions.
- Communicate effectively with Program team members at all levels, and cultivate an atmosphere of knowledge sharing and recognition for actions which promote positive business outcomes.
- Lead proposals and evolve solution offerings, leveraging your experience and creativity to design, propose and execute solutions for complex client problems in advanced business and technology environments.
- Have overall accountability for the winning of competitive proposals.
- Work well in collaborative environments
Business Development Leader Skills, Experience and Qualifications:
- Demonstrated track record of success and stability in the establishment of profitable partnerships with Business and Technology leaders.
- Understanding of strengths and weaknesses of our competitors, and clarity in communication (through all means) our messaging and value propositions / statements.
- Imagination and innovative mindset to design and convince others of the needs and value differentiation of propositions.
- Embrace CGI practices to achieve collective strengths and goals.
- Business development including strategic sales planning and engagement with buyers in the Commercial sector (such as Banking, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Insurance, Government)
- A competitive background and success winning deals
- Business development including strategic sales planning
- A keen, flexible and aggressive intellect; superior conceptual thinking as well as analytical and problem solving skills
- Be independent, self-starting, and be able to stay calm under the pressures of multiple deadlines
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, at all levels
- Proven record of creating and maintaining business partnerships and relationships
- Experience working in multiple commercial industries in Puerto Rico
13. The Business Development Representative drives pipeline generation and lead qualification across target accounts, spanning prospect research, outreach, and cross-functional coordination, with impact on sales pipeline quality, conversion efficiency, and revenue growth.
Business Development Representative Roles:
- Effectively vet and deliver consistent pipeline of qualified leads to Executive Sales team.
- Follow up on leads and conduct research to identify decision makers.
- Correspond with leads via email and phone to follow up and/or confirm appointments.
- Gather customer prospect information and qualify interest.
- Respond to web-based inquiries from prospective customers.
- Collaborate effectively with sales and marketing team members.
- Meet or exceed targeted metrics with volume and quality of leads generated.
- Report status/progress for each lead.
- Ensure effective communication with sales, marketing and client services departments.
- Document complete and accurate information on all leads.
Business Development Representative Skills, Experience and Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing or other related field.
- 1-3 years sales/lead generation experience preferred.
- BPO experience a plus.
- Excellent phone presence and interpersonal skills.
- Proficient in all MS Office applications.
- Strong written communication skills.
- Excellent time management skills, resourceful and well organized, excels under pressure.
- Highly motivated and results-oriented.
- Strong technical aptitude and expertise
With strong communication and time management abilities, the Business Development Career Guide helps professionals build skills and succeed in lead generation and sales roles.
14. The Business Development / Sales Manager leads technical sales and channel strategy across substation automation and protection solutions, spanning key account development, solution positioning, pricing and proposal leadership, and stakeholder alignment, with impact on market share growth, revenue expansion, and adoption of advanced grid technologies.
Business Development / Sales Manager Duties:
- Develop Relationship and Strategy with Key Influencers to achieve Annual Frame agreements with Channels (OEMs and Panel Builders) to produce orders for Products and Systems
- Working closely with Industry Consultants for influencing Specifications and generate Sales for Substation Automation Systems and Control Protection Panels, leveraging support of Local Application Engineers
- Ability to Steer Technical Discussions on Subject Matter with Channels and work with End users (Utilities/Consultants) for approvals for Siemens Products and Systems, thereby increasing Sales from Channels
- Developing complete Ownership and a vision for Key Products (SIPROTEC and SICAM) in the assigned territory for ramping Factory Order volume
- Technical sales activities involving such matters as proposal development, pricing development, risk assessment and technical sales strategies.
- Participate in account planning activities with Siemens Sales to ensure the best technical solution strategies for growth are established and implemented through value proposition development.
- Support Product Life-Cycle Management process (PLM) in creating technical requirement documentation based on global and local market needs for development or adaptation of future products, solutions, and systems.
- Provide technical guidance and training to customers and develop associated recommendations for ongoing business growth.
- Leading Strategic and Pricing Discussions with HQ within the Siemens guidelines of ethics and conduct to maximize Market share for Products and systems
Business Development / Sales Manager Requirements:
- BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent and a minimum of 5+ years of total experience in the domain of Substation, Automation and Protection. A Masters in EE with a Power Systems focus and 2+ years of experience can be substituted in lieu of 5+ years of experience.
- 3-5 years experience in the design and configuration of different substation, automation and protection systems with Core Understanding of Protection Algorithms and Automation Platforms is an added advantage
- Strong technical knowledge of Transmission and Distribution equipment and Grid operations
- A business management degree is an added advantage
- Strong communication skills to lead vision plans for the assigned territories
- Strong Digital Sales and Marketing Skills to expand reach and build brand recognition
- Ability to work in Teams laterally and engage with management for engaging and influencing with customers to maximize Sales
- Strong Microsoft office skills
- Strong customer management and relationship skills across all levels to have high brand recognition for Siemens with customers
- 5 Years of Sales and Business Development Experience in Substation Automation and Protection products and systems with Utility, Industry and Infrastructure Markets is desired.
15. The Senior Business Development Manager drives end-to-end ownership of strategic partnerships and deal execution across the banking segment, spanning strategy, pipeline, negotiation, and executive engagement, with impact on accelerating digital transformation, shaping product roadmap alignment, and delivering scalable revenue growth for Microsoft.
Senior Business Development Manager Roles:
- Leverages internal and external network to develop new strategic relationships with senior business and technical decision makers; develops relationships as a trusted advisor for a particular line of business; provides industry insights internally
- Articulates the value of Microsoft solutions in the context of the customer's perspective, leveraging knowledge of customer and partner business priorities and/or drivers and anticipating changes and actions to influence decision making, identify opportunities, and influence the product roadmap
- Executes and applies value propositions, amending the framework as appropriate to create a partnerships with customers and partners. Influences internal stakeholders and partners and promotes the value of opportunities
- Positions the Microsoft value proposition versus competitors and works with stakeholders to influence product roadmap to meet customer needs, leveraging knowledge of Microsoft and customer issues in conjunction with product/industry teams to establish a foundation for future opportunities in competitive situations through collaboration. Provides insight on industry and/or competitive trends and drives action based on insights
- Identifies and collaborates with a diverse set of stakeholders to develop plans to source deals that target high-priority gaps across technology, product, business, and/or geography. Identifies opportunities and strategy and maps target customers/partners; utilizes quantitative data (e.g., usage, revenue) to inform internal and external decisions; provides input into recommendations on partners
- Builds and shares pipeline plans. Manages pipeline by identifying and promoting prioritizing, guiding, influencing processes that develop and deliver on pipeline opportunities and optimize resources to better deliver including preparing information for reporting to key stakeholders, identifying key stakeholders and reporting
- Leads deal opportunities across deal stages (e.g., Strategic Approval (SA), Approval to Negotiate (A2N), Final Go-no-go (FGNG))
- Represents Microsoft in key customer and partner interactions and recommends deal structures, leveraging experience to articulate key deal terms
- Collaborates proactively to close opportunities and scale the business. Identifies opportunities for customized approaches
- Identifies negotiation scenarios and manages executive escalations. Manages stakeholders to gain consensus and ensure internal alignment
- Develops plans for managing deals, including communications and reporting with Microsoft stakeholders. Resolves blocking issues using known techniques
- Collaborates with customers, partners, and Microsoft colleagues to develop post-deal governance and ensure design, communication, and alignment in creation and implementation of execution plans across a portfolio of deals within a particular domain; ensures customers and partners are prepared for implementation
- Develops KPIs to demonstrate achieved business value. Troubleshoots complex issues and course corrects as appropriate
- Articulates alternatives to blockers across a body of deals to develop consistent deal negotiation policy and drive application of scalable resolutions
Senior Business Development Manager Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Liberal Arts, Sciences, or related field AND 5+ years relevant work experience (e.g., investment banking, consulting, finance, marketing, corporate strategy, sales, venture capital, legal, business development, product management, project management, software development, or related field)
- OR equivalent experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Liberal Arts, Sciences, or related field AND 7+ years relevant work experience (e.g., investment banking, consulting, finance, marketing, corporate strategy, sales, venture capital, legal, business development, product management, project management, software development, or related field)
- OR Master's/Advanced Degree in Business, Sciences, or related field and 5+ years relevant work experience (e.g., investment banking, consulting, finance, marketing, corporate strategy, sales, venture capital, legal, business development, product management, project management, software development, or related field)
- OR equivalent experience
- 5+ years experience in banking OR in a technical role (e.g., IT, Engineering)
16. The Senior Business Development Specialist leads service expansion and commercial strategy for station-based offerings, spanning business planning, partnership development, sales channel setup, and contract negotiation, with impact on revenue growth, network scalability, and end-to-end service performance.
Senior Business Development Specialist Roles and Responsibilities:
- Prepare expansion plans of the related Station Based service and follow up the execution with the support of related departments
- 360-degree evaluation of the business plans and use case/scenario planning
- Be responsible of the design of the related Station Based service journey, including value proposition, geographical footprint, inhouse or partnership capabilities
- Set up potential sales channels for the Station Based Services, prepare periodic sales plans and hunt for potential leads and partners for the realization of sales expansion
- Prepare, follow up, negotiate and finalize sales commercial contracts for expansion points and partners
- Direct responsibility of the operational, financial, and customer satisfaction performance of the related Station Based service
- Build up a partnership network, live and potential
Senior Business Development Specialist Experience and Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, Management, or other related fields
- At least 5+ years of experience especially in areas like Business Development, Sales Planning, Brand Partnership, Network Development, Retail Expansion
- Excellent at commercial negotiation and contractual frame design
- Great at building customer sales and partnership networks and keeping up with sustainable relations
- Experience in financial feasibilities, reporting, analytical thinking, and data analysis
- Have very good written, verbal, and presentation skills
- Have a proven track record of effectively achieving results in a cross-functional and agile environment
- Solution-oriented and has innovative way of the problem-solving skills
17. The Graduate Business Development Specialist supports proposal development and client deliverables across financial services, spanning content drafting, stakeholder coordination, and submission tracking, with impact on response quality, process efficiency, and early-stage client engagement.
Graduate Business Development Specialist Functions:
- With guidance, reviewing assigned sections or documents to identify relevant requirements.
- Preparing first drafts of responses for review, using standard, pre-approved content.
- Communicating with business partners (e.g., Distribution, Performance, Legal & Compliance, Product Management, etc.) to verify appropriateness of pre-approved content during drafting process.
- Prioritising own workload to adhere to the project timeline, highlighting any challenges or resource constraints.
- Using the content management database to locate and use the correct content for assigned questionnaires/submissions.
- Tracking all responses for receipt of appropriate approval and document stages.
- Reviewing own work and that of other Executives against external client requirements and best practice guidelines for written style, grammar, punctuation, and consistency.
- With support, building effective working relationships with colleagues and business partners to develop an understanding of external clients and their requirements as well as LGIM’s investment products, distribution and product management priorities.
Graduate Business Development Specialist Skills, Experience and Qualifcations:
- Basic or an understanding of Financial and technical writing skills
- Degree educated in Economics/Finance/Business or associated fields.
- Editorial skills, including document layout
- Experience of using MS Office suite
- Organisational skills and adaptability to work under pressure, manage workloads to deadlines, and tight turnarounds
- Knowledge of capital markets and investment management concepts with desire to learn and deepen expertise
- Understanding of LGIM’s organisational structure, product offerings, and clients
18. The Service Business Development Specialist supports local strategy execution and market development for service offerings, spanning market analysis, partnership support, and cross-functional coordination, with impact on opportunity realization, strategic alignment, and growth of service portfolios.
Service Business Development Specialist Responsibilities:
- Supporting Business Development Manager in translating global strategies into local strategic actions and in identifying local input to global strategies
- Contributing to strategy definition and executing through the analysis and identification of new markets, segments, and/or solutions.
- Developing good understanding of respective local markets, competitive environments, and ABB position
- Supporting local Business Development Manager in deriving insights and in preparing concise communication material
- Collaborating with all related internal contacts to ensure alignment, efficiency, and effectiveness in the implementation of the respective local business strategy
- Assisting in the definition of partnership agreements or joint ventures
- Supporting realization of prioritized opportunities
Service Business Development Specialist Experience, Knowledge and Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in engineering field of technical/sales/product/service
- Good knowledge & skill of electrical products and switchgear in term of such systems,
- Solution, troubleshooting, analysis,verification, improvement, innovation creation, etc
- Marketing experience of products/systems and service to industrial market
- Ability to understand customer needs and find proper solutions
- Good product presentation skill & good communicator with English skills
- Preferred technical knowledge in engineering field of low voltage and medium voltage switchgear
19. The VP of Business Development leads regional sales strategy and enterprise account growth across the Global Mobility portfolio, spanning team leadership, market expansion, pricing strategy, and complex deal execution, with impact on revenue acceleration, market penetration, and long-term client partnerships across Asia.
Business Development VP Roles:
- Develops and facilitates and lead the team sales of HR, Tax and Mobility products and services within a set of established named accounts to meet or exceed assigned sales and revenue quotas.
- Creating a regional sales strategy, cooperating with the CCO and the CEO.
- Develops and maintains a working knowledge of product positioning, product messaging, product capabilities, and competitive position.
- Defining competitive pricing points for our products
- Entering into strategic pricing negotiations with our enterprise clients
- Identifying opportunities to leverage the other Elements services with existing clients
- Foster relationships with enterprise clients requiring a minimum amount of licenses and products purchases.
- Responsible for RFP and procurement
- Understands future trends and influences positioning of the product in the marketplace.
- Manages the sales critical life cycle to maintain the pipeline plans for long, medium, and short-term sales.
- Partner with internal cross-functional teams to support the sales process.
Business Development VP Experience and Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience in B2B Sales within the global HR field
- Proven leadership of high performing sales teams
- Dynamic personality able to effectively engage and influence a variety of audiences at all levels across the business
- Confident communication (written and verbal) skills and a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with all levels of internal and external organizations
- A focus on relationships, able to gain trust through communication, expectation setting and completion of planned deliverables
- Proficient business acumen, analytical and organizational skills in a fast-paced environment; a consultative approach to bring in new business
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and remain self-motivated
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