Business Development Manager - Bangalore
Empower Research is looking to hire business development managers to create and manage client engagements in North America and other geographies. As Business Development Manager, your primary responsibility will be to generate and maximize revenue and business growth opportunities through establishing, developing, and maintaining long-term business relationships with clients.

Job Responsibilities

Integral part of BD team
International calling, establishing the initial contact or building on existing relationships
Calls to set-up meetings with manager and director level (CXO) people at large pharma companies, consumer electronics companies, retailers, etc.
Understanding client's requirements and convincing clients of the benefits of our services
Providing existing clients with proposals for projects, proposal writing to executive level people at most companies
Acquiring accounts/projects on a regular basis
facilitating smooth running of each new account/new project through regular liaison with our delivery and management teams
Marketing material development
Conference identification and scheduling
Sector tracking to enable thought leadership in primary sectors of interest
Sky is the limit for a self starter to wants to tackle new sectors for EmPower - can be given responsibility to develop full markets/sectors if capable and if so desires
 
Qualifications/Requirements
The candidate should be capable of developing new client business independently.
Drive and energy to work hard and achieve success in an entrepreneurial environment
Highest levels of integrity and trustworthiness
The primary requirements are - articulate, aggressive (with cold calling), ideally experienced with sales and cold calling, and a creative self starter - who can see a piece of news and put two and two together to say that - this person might be interesting as a target. This is not something that can be easily dictated - needs some kind of bulldog mentality
Should have at least a Bachelor's in Business Administration, MBA preferred
Should be a senior person - at least 4 to 5 years BD / selling knowledge based services, market research/business intelligence services to large corporates and others with a successful track record
Someone who can think independently
Willing work in US / UK shift
 
Travel
1-2 times a year trip to the US for sales training and client interaction.
In terms of compensation -competitive salary + incentives
 
   
 
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