Senior Business Development Manager, Commercial
About The Position
The Senior Business Development Manager develops new and potential commercial and industrial accounts within a defined territory for Onsite Facility Services, including Cleaning, Environmental, Parking, and Engineering. The role assesses prospective clients’ current facility services programs and develops and presents customized sales and marketing strategies, offering individual services or bundled solutions. The manager partners with ABM operations to plan and execute results, owns the strategic selling process, communicates value, resolves client issues, maintains client relationships, and cross-sells ABM’s facilities services.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of service sales experience, including finding, qualifying, and closing new business primarily through cold calls and self-generated leads.
- Hunter sales mentality; goal-driven and self-motivated.
- Demonstrated success selling services or other intangible business offerings.
- Comfort presenting complete solutions in group settings.
- Organized and efficient, with the ability to manage many prospects at different stages of the sales process.
- Collaborative, with the ability to work successfully with operations and sales support teams.
- Advanced computer skills in Microsoft Office and Salesforce or another CRM.
- Self-disciplined and results-driven, with a record of consistent high performance.
Nice To Haves
- Experience or working knowledge of facility services, janitorial services, commercial real estate, property management companies, or related fields.
- Strength in writing and presenting compelling, detailed sales proposals.
- Experience pricing labor within proposals.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute short- and long-term sales plans, maintain existing sales, attract and connect with prospects, create proposals, respond to RFPs, and facilitate and close new business.
- Maintain the information base on prospective clients within the territory.
- Prospect for new business through cold calls, networking, and lead generation and qualification.
- Use ABM-branded marketing materials to create detailed, customized proposals.
- Research prospective customers’ facility solutions and programs and schedule facility bid walks.
- Include operations teams in strategic and financial planning and execution.
- Negotiate contracts, close deals, and manage transitions to operations to ensure proposal commitments are delivered.
- Build a territory-wide network of relationships with industry influencers, community and strategic partners, and prospective clients.
- Maintain the territory database using Salesforce.
- Manage the assigned budget.
- Support company online and direct marketing campaigns.
- Monitor bid schedules and understand marketplace competition.
- Assist with formal and informal training as needed.
- Develop a network of skilled, informed operators and partner with them to ensure understanding of prospects, clients, and the sales territory.
- Assist the corporation with competitive intelligence.
Benefits
- World-class training program.
- Opportunities to apply skills developed during military service.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
