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Business Development Director

Business Development Director

CompanyLivefront
LocationMinneapolis, MN, USA
Salary$160000 – $180000
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior, Expert or higher

Requirements

  • Proven experience in outside sales, preferably in digital product services
  • Strong presentation skills, including sales pitches and negotiations
  • Ability to be persuasive using data and informed story-telling to influence decision-making
  • Skill in communicating new perspectives to clients that reframe and challenge their perspective on digital products and how they are built and/or brought to market
  • Demonstrated ability to build and maintain great relationships with client partners
  • Demonstrated ability to build trusting relationships with delivery teams
  • A self-motivated and results-oriented mentality
  • Track record of sourcing and closing deals valued from $500k to $5mm+
  • Ability to travel up to 25% for client visits, pitches, and conferences

Responsibilities

  • Represent Livefront’s skills, expertise, and vision to clients and the community through networking, outreach, and events.
  • Identify and prospect potential clients to generate new business opportunities that are the best fit for Livefront’s capabilities.
  • Communicate Livefront’s value proposition to prospective clients through presentations, conversations, and broader outreach tactics.
  • Collaborate closely with Solutions Architects to propose appropriate team/resourcing plans for client briefs and develop pricing proposals.
  • Leverage the talents of the UX Strategy and Design Team to ideate on behalf of clients, develop concepts to pitch, and develop pitch materials.
  • Pitch and win new business with clients, with support from other key Livefront stakeholders.
  • Nurture and grow existing client relationships.
  • Develop compelling sales presentations, proposals, and other sales support and/or marketing materials.
  • Craft engagements that solve clients’ needs, align to the strengths of Livefront’s processes and methodology, and put our team in position to do our best work and drive impactful outcomes.
  • Help create and manage sales contracts like MSAs and SOWs.
  • Manage, track activity, and build reports from a CRM.
  • Perform competitive analysis and market research to understand customer needs and industry trends across digital services.
  • Be a reliable point of contact and relationship manager for our client partners throughout the span of their relationship with Livefront.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Have a minimum of 3 years of consulting experience in a digital or technology environment
  • Have management consulting experience in Consumer or Financial Services
  • Have an engineering or computer science degree and/or background
  • Have a Master’s degree in Business Administration