What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sales Development Manager position at Bloomberg Industry Group?
Primary Responsibilities:
- Provides leadership, development and management of the Sales Associate team
- Develops and implements strategic vision for the team
- Liaison between contracting, product and operations teams to improve sales processes and efficiency in sales enablement.
- Ensures the delivery of individualized and group coaching sessions on cold calling, analytics meeting management, and any other skill gaps identified
- Develops qualitative and quantitative indicators for sustainable performance
- May attend and participate in customer meetings, as needed
- Oversees the consistency of training, development, guidance, and advice across the Sales Associate team
- May attend local networking events, as needed
- Works with Human Resources to make or approve decisions regarding hires, salary actions, promotions, disciplinary action, and terminations
- Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned
Job Requirements:
- Knowledge/experience with assigned market channel (i.e. Government, Corporations, Tax and Accounting orLaw)
- Depending on assigned market channel, may require contracts knowledge/experience either Federal or Commercial and knowledge of the government, marketplace and sales acquisitions process
- Must have an entrepreneurial mind set and outgoing nature
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills to effectively communicate value proposition to leaders in the public and private sectors
- Must be a confident and personable self-starter with the ability to work in a fast-paced, detail-oriented environment
- Strong proven sales skills. Demonstrated understanding of the market and customers. Proven ability to adapt to changing markets and to understand customer needs
- Strong leadership and supervisory skills. Ability to manage, coach and motivate a team
- Ability to plan, to develop, and conduct effective presentations to high-level professional audiences
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- Minimum 3 years of relevant experience and proven propensity as a leader
- 1 years of people leadership experience required
Equal Opportunity
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