Business Development Manager, OEM - Detroit, MI Or New York, NY - Remote

The Opportunity:

The OEM Business Development Manager is responsible for prospecting, managing, and retaining multiple OEM relationships within their portfolio to ensure consistent performance and profitability aligned with strategic OEM goals. This role will report to the VP, Business Development and be responsible for managing a portfolio of OEM accounts that have adopted TrueCar Marketing Solutions and sourcing and onboarding new marketing partnerships.

While this is a remote-based position, the ideal candidate will reside in Detroit, MI, or New York, New York.

How you'll contribute to TrueCar's success:

• Prospect and engage new OEM partners to educate and onboard our suite of advertising products.

• Expand TrueCar's Private Offers and Incentives program by garnering inclusion in new OEM programs.

• Act as a liaison between the OEM and TrueCar, understand the OEM business needs, and problem-solve. This position requires strong coordination with cross-functional teams, including Product, Marketing, and Business Operations.

• Build a pipeline to attain and surpass established quarterly targets.

• This role also has a current book of business. You'll be responsible for the revenue growth and development of existing OEM relationships, including ensuring OEM's have a thorough understanding of TrueCar's platform capabilities and explore new opportunities to meet their evolving business goals.

• Work collaboratively across teams to support the needs of the assigned OEM book of business by troubleshooting, reporting, documenting, and taking the initiative in problem-solving issues as they arise.

• Establish and maintain strong relationships with OEM agencies, senior leaders, decision-makers and CMO's.

• Demonstrate a high level of attentiveness towards OEMs and actively contribute to a culture that encourages high-quality service with a sense of urgency.

• Develop trusting relationships and open communication, while accepting feedback (up and down).

Your Expertise:

• You'll need a deep understanding of the OEM advertising landscape and have established relationships across multiple OEM's.

• A strong analytical mind that can review dashboards, analyze data, and create insights to make recommendations and optimizations for the betterment of the OEM programs.

• Ability to prioritize requests from multiple OEMs, evaluate them based on level of effort versus performance impact, and ultimately gain internal alignment to actuate ideas to fruition.

• Demonstrated success in relationship management of a large portfolio of accounts and working at scale.

• Tech-savvy with the ability to understand, interpret, and present data with a consultative approach.

• The ability to grasp new concepts quickly with an open mind for change and a willingness to solve problems.

• Proven track record of excellent client service.

• Expertise in interfacing with client contacts at various levels.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated ability to effectively present information, including complex technical content, listen for understanding, influence outcomes, and respond to client requirements/requests.

• Ability to understand client standards and requirements pertaining to offered products, features, and capabilities.

• Ability to communicate client requirements and methodologies to internal stakeholders to ensure alignment.

• Ability to represent the company within an assigned book of business.

• Ability to utilize state-of-the-art office software and learn new software (i.e. Tableau, Google Analytics, others)

• Self-starter with integrity, a strong work ethic, and a high level of energy.

• Experience in building strong relationships with clients and key internal stakeholders across organizational and departmental boundaries.

• Ability to travel by airplane or car including overnight trips up to 50% of the time.

Base salary + target incentive: $128,00 - $196,000