Business Development Manager/ Outside Sales

Business Development Manager - Chicago, IL

If you are seeking a career with a base salary PLUS commission opportunity you can have it all at Employbridge….where your career and passion come together!

This role is for a highly motivated individual that demonstrates an "out of the box" mentality and brings a desire to "hunt" to employbridge. The BDM is responsible for consistently increasing revenue through the generation of new business.  This is accomplished by prospecting and closing new opportunities as well as leveraging existing relationships.

Your Role & Responsibilities:

• Attracts new and maintains existing customer relationship via phone, social media, face-to-face meetings, and email (is aware of social selling index via LinkedIn).

• Engages with decision makers (including executives) during buying process.

• Targets higher quality leads and leverages existing partnerships to expand the prospect funnel.

• Acts as a market leader through connections with networking groups, trade associations, and social media groups.

• Engages in pre-call planning that uses market research to gain insights to customer's challenges, identifies key stakeholders and challenges customers to think about how to transform the way their business works while demonstrating a strong understanding of the customer's priorities.

• Provides consultative account management, post-sale support, frequent contact, and follow-up.

• Leads strategic market related conversations with customers and can present and upsell additional products depending on the client's needs.

Your Attributes:

• A vivacious attitude, competitive spirit, and loves a challenge.

• The ability to build relationships by daily interfacing with all levels of an organization. This would include the C- Suite, Vice Presidents, Directors, Managers, and peer-level associates.

• The capability to build and grow a book of business in your own local territory based on sales ability and business acumen.

• Proven experience meeting or exceeding weekly goals to bring in new accounts through innovative methods i.e. Lead Gen, Vidyard, Zoom, LinkedIn, etc.

• Able to creativity use EmployBridge's innovative technology to reach clients and prospects.

The staffing, recruiting, and workforce solutions industry makes a vital contribution to the U.S. economy and provides outstanding job and career opportunities for 14.5 million people per year. The revenue for the global staffing industry in 2022 reached almost 650 billion U.S dollars, following two years of continuous growth. The industry took a big hit during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, however revenue has bounced back to surpass pre-pandemic figures.

EmployBridge is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.