Business Development Partner - GTA East and Kingston

CooperVision Limited; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

CooperVision Limited in Canada is seeking a Business Development Partner for GTA East and Kingston. The role focuses on building and maintaining relationships with optometrists, ophthalmologists, and distributors to drive territory growth.

The candidate should reside within 20–25 km of Markham or Durham region and be prepared for regular travel (10–15%). The position requires a Bachelor’s degree and 3–5 years of sales experience in optical/medical fields.

Qualifications

• Self-starter who can work independently
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Strong organizational skills and prioritization
• Fluent written and spoken English
• Experience with CRM systems and MS Office

Responsibilities

• Meet and exceed sales goals for the territory
• Maintain territory call cycle with customer meetings
• Respond to inquiries within 24 hours
• Develop business plans for top customers and growth areas
• Travel within the assigned geography for conferences and training

Skills

Self-starter

Excellent communication

Organizational skills

English fluency

Microsoft Office proficiency

CRM software knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

CRM software

Microsoft Office

Job description

Business Development Partner - GTA East and Kingston

Toronto, ON, Canada (Distant)

Job Description

At CooperVision, a business unit of CooperCompanies (Nasdaq: COO), we’re driven by a unified purpose of helping people experience life’s beautiful moments. We are connected through our shared values - dedicated, innovative, friendly, partners, and do the right thing. As a leading global manufacturer of contact lenses, we are committed to helping improve the way people see each day. Through our diverse lens portfolio, we tackle the toughest vision challenges – including astigmatism, presbyopia, and childhood myopia. We offer the most complete collection of spherical, toric, and multifocal products available, enabling us to fit 99% of all contact wearers. Learn more at www.coopervision.com

Job Summary:

The role builds and maintains excellent customer relationships to support solid business growth. Implement a consultative selling style that operates independently on a daily basis. Must be professional, credible, and comfortable at all times dealing with optometrists, ophthalmologists, technicians, office administrators, retail store managers and store staff, authorized distributor sales representatives and any other customers in the territory.

The ideal candidate would reside in the 20-25km distance from Markham or Durham region.

Responsibilities

• Meets and exceeds projected sales goals based on territory quota established by sales management for the given territory
• Uses, on a daily basis, a disciplined approach to selling to uncover and meet customer needs. Full understanding and implementation of CVI sales platform
• Maintains territory call cycle; minimum 6 customer meetings per workday
• Quickly and accurately meets customer needs. Returns customer phone and email inquiries within 24 hours
• Regularly completes and updates comprehensive profiling of all customers; understands customers business
• Formulates and executes an effective call cycle plan to grow territory business;Prepares and presents account business plans for minimum “top 25” customers, as well as quarterly growth plans
• Develops new business within geographic territory
• Maintains technical proficiency with CVI products and competitive products
• Keeps current with industry trends and analysis; i.e., Health Product Research data
• Integrates and trains customer office on the CVI suite of technology and value-added products and services; sells value-added tools to enhance customer experience with CVI
• Develops customer marketing plans and promotions to grow business; monitor to insure return on investment
• Uses the CRM tool and reports daily to analyze product, account sales and overall territory growth
• Participates in provincial and regional optical shows when requested
• Submits all administrative reports on a timely basis (call reports, expense reports, ROI reports, etc.)

Travel Requirements:

• Territory travel, independent from supervisor
• Travel outside of territory is required for conferences, site trainings, and regional meetings (10-15%)

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Self-starter with the ability to work independently
• Positive and constructive attitude
• Excellent organizational skills
• Anticipate, understand, prioritize and meet customer needs
• Adapt to a changing work environment; various situations, individuals and/or groups on a daily basis
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Use of Microsoft Office suite of tools (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint) at an intermediate level
• Effectively identify, evaluate and assimilate information to render quality decisions
• Ability to make presentations to various sized customer groups
• Able to fluently write and speak in English
• Extensive territory travel

Experience:

• Minimum 3 to 5 years of sales experience preferably in the optical industry or related medical/technical healthcare field
• Tangible product sales experience is highly desirable. Knowledge of the optical industry is beneficial

Education:

Bachelor’s degree preferred. Consideration given to candidates with sales experience and demonstrated track record of performance and results

For Canadian locations that require disclosure of compensation, the starting base pay for this role is between $79,529 and $106,039 per year and may include cost of living adjustments. The actual base pay includes many factors and is determined by skills, experience, qualifications, and work location. In addition to base salary, eligible employees may have opportunities for other types of compensation and to participate in variable incentive programs which are designed to reward individual and company-wide achievements. We are committed to offering competitive compensation and adhere to all relevant pay transparency legislation.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

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Job Info

• Job Identification 12971
• Job Category Sales
• Posting Date 10/16/2026, 05:10 PM
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations 45 Vogell Rd., Richmond Hill, ON, L4B 3P6, CA (Distant)