Pedagog Recruiting & Careers · 9 hours ago
Regional Business Development Manager
Pedagog Recruiting & Careers is seeking a Regional Development Manager to lead new business initiatives across their assigned sales region. The RDM will be responsible for increasing new business opportunities and managing customer relationships to promote the brand and develop value-added selling opportunities.
Responsibilities
Achieve company quotas for profitable sales bookings and new business revenue targets
Ability to understand the buying cycles in targeted accounts and align them to sales strategy: prospect identification, relationship development, opportunity qualification, value-based proposal creation, accurate resource forecasting, strategic action planning, contract negotiations, focused deal closing, and service delivery
Develop strategic account plans and overarching win strategies for assigned Sales Territories & Regional Accounts
Effectively represent the company and communicate its core value proposition, suite of offerings, and associated business impacts to utility and communications customers and prospects
Track, analyze, and report relevant sales and pipeline metrics to communicate account progress and to efficiently utilize the company organizational support
Build, extend, and manage a diverse network of contacts including utility, telecom, and fiber executive stakeholders, key partners, and industry consultants
Spearhead account expansion activity by driving effective cross-selling across the company. Offer specialties to increase customer spend and attain greater “wallet share” for combined locating and advanced infrastructure services offerings
Gather market and customer intelligence to help the organization develop and deliver expanded offerings around dedicated services and innovative, data-informed commercial models
Work alongside Marketing to develop commercial collateral, customer case studies, business presentations, etc. that advance commercial initiatives
Actively engage the customer community at industry events, conferences, and client meetings
Represent the organization in a manner consistent with its core values and team-based approach
Qualification
Required
Must live in one of the states: IN, KY, NC, SC, VA & WV
Ability to travel ~25-50% to customer locations and conferences
5+ years' experience working within the utility, construction and/or communications industries preferred
5+ years of sales experience with a proven track record of territory management and new business development
Bachelor's degree
Persuasive communication and presentation skills
Experience accessing and leveraging CRM and sales analysis tools (e.g. Salesforce)
Market development and demand generation expertise
Background in service industries, ideally with utility or infrastructure-related fields
Preferred
Advanced degree preferred