Sr. Business Development Specialist

Encore Capital Group•San Diego, CA

13h•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Business Development Analyst reports to the Senior Manager of Business Development in the BD Relationship Management function. The purpose of the position is to enable the MCM BD team to manage a high volume annual deal pipeline with extreme accuracy, efficiency, and minimal post-purchase risk. To achieve this objective, this position is primarily responsible for day to day management of assigned seller relationships, designing and implementing deal diligence processes and procedures for both self and others on the team to use, and creating and maintaining business intelligence tools and analytical processes in PowerBI and SalesForce. The Senior Business Development Analyst is an experienced individual contributor and function leader who accomplishes their assigned tasks and goals with a high degree of autonomy and independence.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance or related field
5+ years of experience in a B2B relationship management role, with at least some project or process management experience. Or equivalent education and experience in operations management or management consulting.
Advanced program or relationship management skills, collaboration skills, problem-solving skills, and analytical skills.
Ability to speak publicly with comfort and confidence
Skilled in developing written and oral presentation materials for internal and external partners, including senior management.
Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
Strong proficiency with MS Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
Knowledge of Salesforce (Salesforce.com), Power BI or comparable CRM software
Ability to provide functional leadership to lower level BD team members
Current authorization to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Nice To Haves

Financial Services, Debt Collection Industry Experience
Experience with Salesforce.com and Power BI
Experience with programming languages, particularly SQL, is a plus

Responsibilities

Provide direct management of key seller relationships, ensuring alignment between MCM and partner objectives.
Independently own the root cause analysis of post-purchase procedure breakdowns of low to medium risk level, as assigned by Sr. Manager Business Development, and work across MCM departments to understand impacts, analyze options, and recommend possible solutions to BD leadership.
Designing, implementing, and maintaining repeatable diligence processes that can be used by all members of the BD function to vet prospective investment opportunities.
Integrating those processes into MCM’s comprehensive multi-line risk governance structure, including authoring function-level and department-level procedures where necessary.
Aid the BD department’s market intelligence objectives, which require accurate forecast development, pricing intelligence, and frequent reconciliation of market data, by designing, testing, and implementing new custom business intelligence tools in PowerBI and SalesForce.
Partner with the Market Intelligence function of BD to serve as the data and analysis liaison from the Relationship Management team, ensuring that market and seller feedback required by Market Intelligence is accurately captured in our SalesForce dataset.
Train and provide functional guidance to other members of the BD department and outside departments (as necessary) on how to leverage the business intelligence tools for maximum effectiveness.
Conduct regular business for assigned sellers, including independently leading the end-to-end purchase and sale diligence processes for assigned issuers, preparing and analyzing monthly funding approval recommendations to Director of Business Development, overseeing monthly and quarterly compliance processes, including active participation in issuer audits, First Line of Defense (FLD) reviews, and stress testing of internal FLD procedures, conducting market reconciliations and helping ensure that assigned updates and new deals are accurately captured in SalesForce.
Perform other duties, as assigned.