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Business Development Director
Company | Livefront |
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Location | Minneapolis, MN, USA |
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Salary | $160000 – $180000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | |
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Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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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