Connect CRE · 1 week ago
Director of Business Development
Connect CRE is seeking a Director of Business Development to lead sales initiatives for the Connect Money platform. This role involves identifying sales targets, creating proposals, and promoting the brand through various channels while maintaining relationships and tracking sales performance.
Responsibilities
Identify leads as potential sales targets for the integrated platform with a heavy focus on advertising, content marketing, and events (digital and live), as well as the ability to sell full-service marketing and agency services
Pitch, create proposals/contracts and sell products/offerings across the news platform, events and fully integrated services in partnership with Head of Events
Work with Head of Events on Connect Conference opportunities in the Connect Money space to identify opportunities, create and host events
Promote the brand and offerings by phone, email and at in-person events
Track leads, potential deals and sales pipeline in HubSpot CRM
Work with Head of Audience Development to cultivate lists of engaged/warm leads and additional audience development strategies to grow the Connect Money presence in the industry and subscriber base
Establish, develop and maintain positive business and customer relationships
Serve customers by consulting, selling products and meeting customer needs
Work with marketing and creative teams to identify sales collateral needs
Stay in tune with financial services industry trends, best practices and market changes, including reading our news publication as well as others
Work with Editorial Director to help grow editorial areas of coverage based on industry trends and market changes
Establish in-kind partnerships and trade out agreements with industry associations, publications and events to help grow the Connect Money brand
Deliver market insights from sales interactions to executive leadership and editorial team
Provide suggestions for new Connect Money offerings to establish new sales opportunities based on market needs and industry gaps
Qualification
Required
Identify leads as potential sales targets for the integrated platform with a heavy focus on advertising, content marketing, and events (digital and live), as well as the ability to sell full-service marketing and agency services
Pitch, create proposals/contracts and sell products/offerings across the news platform, events and fully integrated services in partnership with Head of Events
Work with Head of Events on Connect Conference opportunities in the Connect Money space to identify opportunities, create and host events
Promote the brand and offerings by phone, email and at in-person events
Track leads, potential deals and sales pipeline in HubSpot CRM
Work with Head of Audience Development to cultivate lists of engaged/warm leads and additional audience development strategies to grow the Connect Money presence in the industry and subscriber base
Establish, develop and maintain positive business and customer relationships
Serve customers by consulting, selling products and meeting customer needs
Work with marketing and creative teams to identify sales collateral needs
Stay in tune with financial services industry trends, best practices and market changes, including reading our news publication as well as others
Work with Editorial Director to help grow editorial areas of coverage based on industry trends and market changes
Establish in-kind partnerships and trade out agreements with industry associations, publications and events to help grow the Connect Money brand
Deliver market insights from sales interactions to executive leadership and editorial team
Provide suggestions for new Connect Money offerings to establish new sales opportunities based on market needs and industry gaps
Company
Connect CRE
Connect CRE brings you all the commercial real estate news and information of the day via our website, daily news emails and conferences, plus provides world-class marketing solutions for our clients via our full service marketing agency.