Business Development Coordinator

Overview

Qualified candidates would describe themselves as a connector, relationship builder, and a communicator. The successful candidate is also someone who is adaptable, flexible, and believes in teamwork. We are looking for a Business Development Coordinator to work on our corporate business development team and to focus on supporting our seller-doer principals in the New York Metropolitan market.

Preferred qualifications include 1-4 years of A/E/C industry experience as a business developer in the New York commercial real estate space. Familiarity in the science and technology, critical facilities, and building optimization market sectors would be especially helpful in this role.

Job Description

• Lead weekly local BD meetings and one-on-one meetings with seller-doers. These meetings are based on our CRM and are used to track outreach and follow-ups, assign action items, and support staff with BD strategy.
• Organize seller-doer attendance at local industry events, including identifying high value events, completing registration, and supporting pre-event prep and post-event follow-up.
• Identify industry events and sponsorship opportunities to effectively market and increase market awareness of the WB brand.
• Attend industry events and actively participate in target organizations through committee involvement (this may include evening and weekend events).
• Cultivate new client relationships to bring in new opportunities as well as increase brand recognition in the science and technology, critical facilities, and building optimization market sectors.
• Organize and support WB-hosted client events.
• Schedule lunch and learns, team introductions, and other client events/meetings.
• Attend corporate BD team meetings, contributing by representing the New York office in sharing market intel, client updates, and feedback on opportunities.
• Collaborate with the national MarComm BD team to support brand building efforts including social media, presentations, proposals, webinars, and debriefs from events.
• Support the development and tracking of the New York annual account plan.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or related field.
• 1-4 years’ experience.
• Proficient in all Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, Power Point), and CRM management
• Strong organizational, collaboration and communication skills.
• Articulate and professional with a strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work efficiently, at times independently, handling many tasks simultaneously.