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Business Development Manager Reviews
What is it like working as a Business Development Manager?
January 2015
Work flexibility, good office conditions, stress, sales.
Business Development Manager:
Pros: I like the informal atmosphere and great colleagues. I like our member companies and the flexibility to meet new companies. I enjoy meeting new people in the region.
Cons: I do not enjoy the sales aspect. I do not enjoy sales goals and how part of my salary is dependent upon if companies want to join the council or not.
January 2015
Hot and cold.
Business Development Manager:
Pros: Assisting in the process.
Cons: Targets for little reward.
January 2015
Strategy Is Everything.
Business Development Manager:
Follow the sales process and do a thorough discovery. So often new reps get trapped in bad business that detracts from the bottom line because they are so anxious to make a sale.
Make a top 25 list of target companies and cold call around them as a daily strategy.
December 2014
Study n1.
Business Development Manager:
Study n1 electrical engineering or you can study n3 small business management entrepreneurship.
November 2014
Daily responsibilities.
Business Development Manager:
Enquire what specific duties are involved in the role.
You will want to ask for higher renumeration if so.
November 2014
Business Development Manager:
Pros: New things every day.
A challenge.
Not boring.
Cons: The pay currently, that is why I am checking out your website.
November 2014
If Only I Knew This In January 2013.
Business Development Manager:
I wish I had more thoroughly vetted the company's operations and goals when it came to some of the strategic business changes they said they wanted to take on in bringing me on board. I interfaced with only one person during negotiations (the President), without any insight as to the culture within the rest of senior management and the intense "group think" I would be up against. I made the mistake of assuming that by wanting to bring me on (first and only MBA at this firm), they were aware of an MBA's skill-set and what someone like me could bring to the table. I did not have enough productive conversations about what expectations were for me coming into the firm before I accepted. Only after I joined did I slowly uncover the challenges I was up against, and what the actual expectations were of me and my role.
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