Business Development Manager

• At least 5 years of business development experience, including demonstrated success in business-to-business sales, forging strategic partnerships that have resulted in significant increases in earned income.
• Ability to innovate, develop new strategies, and drive creativity and inventiveness within the organization’s business development and fundraising strategies.
• Exceptional relationship-building and interpersonal skills, with the ability to represent the organization passionately to potential partners, as well as listen and respond to the interests of a variety of stakeholders. Nice to have:
• Strong staff management skills, with the ability to foster a sense of team accountability and high performance.
• Experience in a private market sector, investment, consumer finance, financial literacy, and/or community development.

• Lead the design and implementation of an efficient business development strategy, with an emphasis on creating long-term relationships with private market players, including VC, Investment Associations, and others.
• Oversee the management of existing and new relationships with partners and clients, ensuring their needs are met, and they are engaged.
• Personally build relationships that result in support for existing partnership programs.
• Provide supervision and guidance for sales, customer, and account management teams.
• Leverage the time and effort of the Executive team, identifying and implementing ways to enlist and motivate them to facilitate prospect introductions, attend meetings, and participate in other business development activities as appropriate.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package, including stock options, health insurance, reimbursement for training courses and flexible hours. If you are capable and ready to develop and implement a business development strategy we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity.