Business Development Specialist HP Inc.

ViziRecruiter,LLC.; Merrimack (NH); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Connection in Merrimack, NH is seeking a Business Development Specialist to drive sales growth by expanding focus accounts and collaborating with Account Managers.

You will coordinate with vendors and partners, manage pipeline, and pursue trainings and certifications to stay current in the practice areas.

Join a team that values teamwork, professional development, and a proactive approach to expanding market share.

Qualifications

• Proactively increases sales in funded vendor/partner practice areas.
• Works with Account Managers and sales management to penetrate accounts.
• Maintains knowledge of technology practice areas through trainings and certifications.
• Complies with Sarbanes-Oxley controls where applicable.

Responsibilities

• Works directly with Account Managers and Sales Managers to identify sales opportunities in the practice area through book of business reviews.
• Develops focus accounts in practice area (e.g., active accounts but under-penetrated or inactive/declining accounts).
• Partners with sales and engages in customer calls to help identify, develop and close where applicable.
• Collaborates with vendor or partners inside and/or field team to jointly target specific accounts.
• Engages on and reviews deal registrations and manages open pipeline for additional opportunity to help close.
• Drives vendor or partner promotions and programs with the sales teams.
• Collaborates on business development and communications with the sales teams.
• Strategizes with sales management on tactics for success related to growing the related business segment and practice area.
• Frequently dialogues with Account Managers and the sales management team on plan progress and strategies for tactics to be successful.

Skills

Account management

Sales enablement

Vendor relationships

Certifications

Job description

Introduction

With an eye for detail and a contagiously positive attitude, you’re the teammate everyone counts on to get the project buttoned up and across the finish line.

Overview

What We Do:

We calm the confusion of IT by guiding the connection between people and technology. If a customer is looking for a better way to manage their warehouse inventory, equip their workforce, or secure their data, we make it happen. All it takes is finding the right combination of tech hardware, software, cloud solutions, and support services. That’s what we do. We’re the IT Department’s IT Department.

Who We Are:

Our team is made stronger by a multitude of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. It’s what makes Connection unique—what drives us to innovate and create technology solutions that stand apart from the crowd. We’d love for you to be a part of that fabric, to share your ideas and experiences with a team that thrives on fresh thinking, creativity, and helping others.

Why You Should Join Us:

You’ll find supportive teammates and a rewarding career at Connection—plus great benefits. We take pride in supporting employees with a total rewards package that provides financial, emotional, and physical resources for you and your family. Our compensation, 401k plans, medical insurance, and other benefits are progressive and competitive. We value the importance of our employees’ emotional well-being. To support employees, we provide free therapy visits, mental health coaching and tools, and meditation resources. You’ll also enjoy a generous paid time off package that includes not only vacation and sick time, but also Wellness and Volunteer Time Off days.

Working under minimal supervision of the Senior Manager, referring only exceptional problems and issues for management review or approval, the Business Development Specialist proactively increases sales in the funded vendor and/or partner’s specific practice area (e.g., Networking, Workforce Optimization aka Systems, Software) by working directly with the Account Managers and sales management team to penetrate accounts and increase our market share in the focus business segment(s). The BDS maintains and increases knowledge of their specific technology practice area by attending trainings and achieving certifications.

Where applicable, this position assures departmental processes are performed in compliance with applicable Sarbanes‑Oxley controls.

Responsibilities

• Works directly with Account Managers and Sales Managers to identify sales opportunities in the practice area through book of business reviews.
• Develops focus accounts in practice area (e.g., active accounts but under‑penetrated or inactive/declining accounts).
• Partners with sales and engages in customer calls to help identify, develop and close where applicable.
• Collaborates with vendor or partners inside and/or field team to jointly target specific accounts.
• Engages on and reviews deal registrations and manages open pipeline for additional opportunity to help close.
• Drives vendor or partner promotions and programs with the sales teams.
• Collaborates on business development and communications with the sales teams.
• Strategizes with sales management on tactics for success related to growing the related business segment and practice area.
• Frequently dialogues with Account Managers and the sales management team on plan progress and strategies for tactics to be successful.

Requirements

• Increases knowledge of technology in respective practice area, keeps abreast of changes, and maintains or achieves certifications for professional development.
• Attends applicable industry and manufacturer training.
• Achieves vendor certifications through online or onsite training.
• Assists in the creation and presentation of technical training to our selling organizations.
• Coaches Account Managers on practice area technologies.
• Performs all other duties or special projects as assigned.