Business Development Manager - Interactive $175k

Our client, a prominent interactive agency, has an exciting opportunity for a New Business Development Manager. The ideal candidate will have prior advertising agency or marketing experience locating, developing, defining, negotiating, and closing new business relationships. He/she will also have an established network of contacts within the industry.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Identifies trends by researching industry and related events, publications, and announcements; tracking individual contributors and their accomplishments.
• Locates or proposes potential client deals by contacting prospects and discovering and exploring opportunities.
• Screens potential client deals by analyzing market strategies, client requirements, potential, and financials; evaluating options; resolving internal priorities; recommending target accounts.
• Develops negotiating strategies and positions by studying client needs with company strategies and creative capabilities.
• Closes new business deals by coordinating requirements; developing and negotiating proposals, integrating proposal requirements with internal and external creative services capabilities.


SKILLS:

• Has prior marketing or advertising agency experience.
• Comfortable working towards an annual new business goal.
• Presents information effectively and persuasively across various settings including formal presentations, informal presentations, conference calls, one-on-one meetings, email and phone.
• Understands the market, the customer, and the competition.
• Brings energy, enthusiasm, and a positive goal setting to the job.