What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Business Development Manager position at The Weitz Company?
Our Company is seeking an experience Business Development Manager to be out of our Gig Harbor, WA office. (Construction experience required. Industrial construction experience preferred.)
The Business Development Manager is responsible for working with the business development team in building an adequate base of business by pursuing and developing relationships with current and suggested clients. Additionally, this role is responsible for researching economic trends and commercial construction markets, assisting in acquiring new business, and developing proposals material and presentations. This job may be asked to participate in strategic planning, advertising, and public relations. This role may have direct supervisory responsibilities of marketing support personnel.
What You'll Do :
- Pursue sales opportunities that will lead to successful projects.
- Track progress against sales calls and goals as established for the division.
- Initiate, expand, and maintain strong networks and relationships with current and potential clients, designers, commercial real estate individuals and groups, civic groups, and related firms and individuals to generate new and continuing business leads.
- Pursue sales opportunities necessary to achieve volume and gross profit goals. When requested, serve as the chief salesperson and public representative of Weitz in the market.
- Assure high-quality response to RFQs and RFPs.
- Assure professional and high-quality presentation materials and exhibits represent Weitz positively.
- Utilize leads management system, project information database, and relative marketing and sales databases as required.
- Monitor, encourage, and coach marketing and sales efforts of others.
- Facilitate a key account plan.
- Compile, analyze, and provide a summary of business themes from the client satisfaction surveys.
- As necessary, manage the sales database.
- When requested, assist in the preparation of periodic marketing plans, including organizational structure, marketing materials, market research, public relations, advertising strategy, project types, and other relative opportunities and goals.
- Research and provide a summary of relative economic trends and conditions, and assist with the development of plans to address these as a part of the strategic planning process.
- Identify market segments with long-term business opportunities.
What We're Looking For :
What We Offer :
Salary : $130,000 - $160,000
