2026 New Grad- Business Development Associate

LPL Financial • San Diego, CA

101d • $25 - $42

About The Position

As the Business Development Associate (BDA), you will be responsible for driving Financial Advisor lead flow to LPL’s Advisor Recruiting team in order to increase sales. This will be done through prospecting, lead qualification, and effective reporting. Primary prospecting efforts will be phone based (cold-calling) with supplemental efforts using digital means (email campaigns and social media). If you want to learn and grow with us, this is the role for you. We have a robust career path where successful BDAs promote into Internal Regional Director (IRD) roles and from there have the opportunity to promote into our Regional Director (RD) roles.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance or related areas
• Ability to communicate effectively with leadership, field recruiting professionals, and internal recruiters
• Must be in office 3 days a week (Tuesday - Thursday)

Nice To Haves

• Highly motivated and resilient by achieving sales targets consistently
• Ability to quickly build rapport, primarily via phone based communication
• Comfortable with some travel, two times per year for training
• Experience with MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Salesforce, MS Outlook
• Experience or understanding of broker/dealers, advisory, finance or sales principles

Responsibilities

• Prospect financial advisors to gauge/create interest in meeting with a LPL recruiter
• Use the news cycle, territory makeup and direction of the recruiters/leaders to execute on weekly prospecting campaigns
• Use independent judgement to qualify a lead, determining if the lead should be introduced to the pipeline by presenting to the Internal Regional Director or field Regional Director
• 100 outreaches per day – cold calls (primary), individual emails and social media outreaches (LinkedIn)
• Utilize Salesforce.com to track individual KPIs and understand the impact of lead flow on territory funnel and results
• Develop skillset, knowledge base and industry experience in order to qualify for next level opportunity as an Internal Regional Director

Benefits

• 401K matching
• Health benefits
• Employee stock options
• Paid time off
• Volunteer time off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees