Description: The Business Development Coordinator contributes to the growth and development of the firm. Responsibility to ensure collection of information about clients is always accurate.
Requirements: A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in a business, administrative, communication, public relations, marketing, or other related disciplines, combined with 3 years of relevant experience in Business Development or Sales within the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (A/E/C) industry.
Key Responsibilities:
- Liaise with management to develop business plans for the company.
- Implement plans towards strategic marketing of company’s products.
- Provide an enabling environment for complementing the company’s business plan strategically developed towards better profit making.
- Develop modalities towards overcoming competition and setting the business up as leader in the company’s chosen niche.
- Oversee process involved in business development as a representative of the firm.
- Understand the firm’s business operation and status, including specific opportunities, competitive landscape and business trend towards better service delivery and improved profit making.
- Identify all potential leads towards placing the firm on solid profit-making foundation.
- Collect and share industrial and market intelligence among members of staff and management.
- Collaborate with other members of staff towards better execution of the firm’s plans and business development activities.
- Evaluate any trade association and professionals that can positively impact business practices in the firm.
- Liaise with relevant staff in proposal development and be involved in tracking success ratio of such proposal.
- Liaise with other members of staff for the development and maintenance of profiles specific to the firm.
- Liaise with other staff members; execute, organize, and plan various activities of the firm (i.e., client receptions, webinars, and seminars).
- Work with the marketing department staff to strengthen the firm’s integrity.
- Travel (i.e., multiple states) with multiple night stays (i.e., 2-4 days) as required for attending various industry events as needed (30% minimum).
- Conference coordination/facilitation including but not limited to, scheduling, shipping, lodging, travel, maintenance and updates for current promotional and conference material(s). Gather relevant information for BD staff accordingly.
- Tracking, retrieval, review, distribution, and storage of trade show booth inventory, promotional items; generation of memos regarding selecting, ordering; inventory tracking, reports of use.
- Conduct data entry tasks as related to CRM cleanup: key converts of duplicative contacts, information, contacts, and companies as needed.
- Acquiring knowledge about the firm and implementing such knowledge in day-to-day dispensation of duty.
Core Competencies: (Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities):
- Proven time management & organizational skills.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Effective selling and/or client service skills.
- Effective problem solving and decision-making skills.