Business Development Manager

Job 152676 - Business Development Manager New York, NY Savory has been revolutionizing food on-demand as New York City’s first delivery-only restaurant. Since 2011, Savory’s diverse and award-winning team has leveraged their many years of experience at top restaurants, technology companies, and startups to create compelling cuisine, carefully conceived to travel. Our entire team is built of veterans and we are constantly striving to improve the experience of fresh food delivery while continuing to find new ways to incorporate sustainable, local and responsible products into Savory’s expansive offerings. Our devotion to industry-leading technology, passion for hospitality and determination to trail-blaze the food on demand category drives our continued pursuit of excellence and innovation in delivery. You will work to improve Savory’s market position and achieve financial growth. You will define long-term organizational strategic goals, build key customer relationships, identify business opportunities, negotiate and close business deals and maintain extensive knowledge of current market conditions. It is your job to work with the internal team, marketing staff, and other managers to increase sales opportunities and thereby maximize revenue for their organization. To achieve this, you will find potential new customers, present to them, convert them into clients, and continue to grow business in the future. Business Development Managers will also help manage existing clients and ensure they stay satisfied and positive. Requirements Daily Responsibilities: Manage Business Development organization to goals, objectives and quota achievement Manage a diverse mix of territory/industry-based sales development positions with diverse responsibilities of prospecting, outbound tele-prospecting and upsell/cross sell sales transaction support Monitor and refine sales lead processes and metrics. Manage territory/industry assignment Ensure the effective use of Salesforce.com system including proper data entry and all activity updates. Collection of all emails through daily contact Compile weekly/monthly team reports, modify as needed Proactively work to improve the cadence and throughput of the assigned sales development resources as we grow Savory’s marketplace presence and success story Work closely with the sales team to ensure a positive working relationship/environment and maximize the impact and effectiveness of sales development Work with Marketing to ensure efficient prospect/customer information exchange and hand-off Conduct weekly forecasts All aspects of moving leads to opportunities through effective follow up, consultative sales and utilizing the tasting platform Organizing and developing client catering tastings Become a brand evangelist and ensure 100% customer satisfaction through consistent follow up and excellent problem resolution skills Recruit, hire, train, motivate, and coach BDRs (note: successful BDRs are promoted to sales positions within one to two years, making hiring and training a particularly important function) Remove roadblocks to BDR success and mentor the growth Preferred Experience: 1-2 years of management experience in Sales, Sales Development or Inside Sales management Experience growing and scaling a successful sales development team in a fast growth environment Proven track record at establishing and achieving or exceeding measurable goals in a highly automated Sales Development environment Experience with start-up environments and highly-transactional models Ability to train, coach and mentor sales development reps and interns Ability to interact effectively with all levels of management and with multiple departments including sales, marketing, events, HR, and executive offices Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills Ability to lift and walk with up to 25 pounds Sales training and salesforce.com experience #J-18808-Ljbffr