Business Development Manager

Business Development Manager

We are seeking a dynamic and results-oriented Business Development Manager to drive and secure new business opportunities within the high-end residential construction market. This role involves building and maintaining relationships with key industry stakeholders and managing opportunities through the complete sales lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Develop and secure new business opportunities within the high-end residential construction market.
• Build and maintain relationships with homeowners, architects, designers, consultants, and other key industry stakeholders.
• Conduct client meetings, site visits, and project walkthroughs to understand project scope, objectives, and client needs.
• Manage opportunities through the complete sales lifecycle, from initial conversation through signed contracts and project handoff.
• Lead clients through a design-build sales process, including pre-construction agreements and transition into full construction contracts.
• Develop proposals, presentations, budgets, and contract-related materials in collaboration with internal teams.
• Maintain accurate pipeline management, forecasting, and reporting through CRM systems.
• Track and document all client interactions, opportunity stages, and business development activity.
• Collaborate closely with project management, estimating, and leadership teams to ensure a seamless client experience.
• Monitor market trends, competitive activity, and industry developments to identify growth opportunities.
• Consistently meet or exceed established business development goals and performance metrics.

Essential Skills

• 5+ years of business development, sales, or client relationship management experience within construction, architecture, design-build, or a closely related industry.
• Demonstrated success generating revenue and converting prospects into signed projects.
• Strong understanding of construction processes, project lifecycles, and contract structures.
• Experience working within design-build environments and managing multi-stage sales processes, including pre-construction agreements.
• Strong communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple opportunities and maintain momentum across complex sales cycles.
• Experience utilizing CRM systems for pipeline management, reporting, and sales execution.
• Self-motivated, highly organized, and results-oriented with a sense of urgency and accountability.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Established network within the NYC high-end residential, brownstone, luxury renovation, and landmark preservation markets preferred.
• Experience with CRM systems such as HubSpot and other AI tools used for daily sales operations.
• Cold calling experience.
• Familiarity with brownstone and landmark preservation projects.

Work Environment

This is a remote position with requirements to attend in-person networking, meetings, and site visits in NYC. The role offers a commission structure tied to personally originated leads and company-provided leads closed through pre-construction contracts. The firm is expanding into the design-build space, with minimum project sizes of $1M and average project sizes ranging from $1.5M to $3M+.

Job Type & Location

This is a Permanent position based out of Long Island City, NY.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $75000.00 - $75000.00/yr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Medical, dental, vision, paid time off, paid holidays, remote flexibility, strong commission structure

Workplace Type

This is a fully remote position.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Sep 14, 2026.