Business Development Manager- Qualcomm
D&H Distributing · Harrisburg, PA · 1 mo ago
Business DevelopmentFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections using for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections where there is real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Content:
- Intro: "D&H is growing! Join 100+ year old Employee-Owned technology distributor, offering end-to-end solutions for today's resellers, retailers, and the clients they serve across the SMB and Consumer markets. We are empowered by our employee Co-Owners who provide the industry’s best service, and we promote a collaborative culture. We offer an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, 401k, Paid Time Off, Medical, Prescription, Dental and Vision benefits as well as Gym Reimbursement, Work from Home Reimbursement, Employee Purchase Program, Tuition Assistance and much more!As a D&H Co-Owner you receive numerous discounts on services.We feel strongly about giving back to the community and promoting sustainable, eco-friendly business practices."
That's about benefits and culture. Could go under Benefits section.
- Summary: "The primary role of the Business Development Manager is to identify and assist in developing strategic relationships with key partners or potential customers. This position will work in tandem with the inside and outside sales organization as well as cross departmentally with the marketing and vendor management groups to coordinate, plan, and execute sales activities based on strategic D&H and vendor initiatives."
That's about the role. Could be About the role.
- Essential Duties And Responsibilities: a long list of duties.
- KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, And/or ABILITIES: list of abilities.
- EDUCATION And/or EXPERIENCE: list.
We need to map to sections: About the role (summary), Responsibilities (essential duties), Requirements (maybe education/experience?), Qualifications (maybe knowledge/skills?), Skills (maybe abilities?), Benefits (benefits listed), Pay (not mentioned), Schedule (not mentioned). So we should not include Pay or Schedule sections because no specific content.
We need to decide which headings to use: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits. Possibly combine some.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to preserve all substantive info. So we need to include all duties, knowledge/skills, education/experience, benefits.
We need to format lists with
for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections where there is real specific content. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. Preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse the posting.
Content:
- Intro: "D&H is growing! Join 100+ year old Employee-Owned technology distributor, offering end-to-end solutions for today's resellers, retailers, and the clients they serve across the SMB and Consumer markets. We are empowered by our employee Co-Owners who provide the industry’s best service, and we promote a collaborative culture. We offer an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, 401k, Paid Time Off, Medical, Prescription, Dental and Vision benefits as well as Gym Reimbursement, Work from Home Reimbursement, Employee Purchase Program, Tuition Assistance and much more!As a D&H Co-Owner you receive numerous discounts on services.We feel strongly about giving back to the community and promoting sustainable, eco-friendly business practices."
That's about benefits and culture. Could go under Benefits section.
- Summary: "The primary role of the Business Development Manager is to identify and assist in developing strategic relationships with key partners or potential customers. This position will work in tandem with the inside and outside sales organization as well as cross departmentally with the marketing and vendor management groups to coordinate, plan, and execute sales activities based on strategic D&H and vendor initiatives."
That's about the role. Could be About the role.
- Essential Duties And Responsibilities: a long list of duties.
- KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, And/or ABILITIES: list of abilities.
- EDUCATION And/or EXPERIENCE: list.
We need to map to sections: About the role (summary), Responsibilities (essential duties), Requirements (maybe education/experience?), Qualifications (maybe knowledge/skills?), Skills (maybe abilities?), Benefits (benefits listed), Pay (not mentioned), Schedule (not mentioned). So we should not include Pay or Schedule sections because no specific content.
We need to decide which headings to use: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits. Possibly combine some.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
We need to preserve all substantive info. So we need to include all duties, knowledge/skills, education/experience, benefits.
We need to format lists with - . For prose, use
.
We need to avoid repeating job title. Not needed.
We need to output only HTML fragment.
Let's craft:
About the role
The primary role of the Business Development Manager is to identify and assist in developing strategic relationships with key partners or potential customers. This position will work in tandem with the inside and outside sales organization as well as cross departmentally with the marketing and vendor management groups to coordinate, plan, and execute sales activities based on strategic D&H and vendor initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Drive market share growth of assigned vendor(s) or category with an added focus on target accounts.
- Responsible for maintaining an appropriate lead generation pipeline to support the continuous flow of new sales opportunities.
- Provide a forward thinking approach to consistently create new leads.
- Executes on tactical outreach, referral generation, and pipelining efforts.
- Create and execute a quarterly sales plan and update manager on milestones.
- Documents important customer opportunities; ensures action is taken and leads are followed through.
- Actively position D&H value within solution category customers and vendor community.
- Drive sales via internal and external marketing and vendor go-to-market strategy.
- To cover channel depth and manage reseller performance/purchase.
- Responsible for demand generation and building new sales opportunity, build project pipeline follow through and close project funnel.
- Engagement and collaboration with vendor, internal, and external sales teams to win projects.
- To establish good rapport, good partnership with vendor and reseller account managers.
- Work collaboratively with assigned solutions category and peers.
- Submission of timely sales funnels to Division Manager and vendor's Channel Manager.
- Engage with customers through field visits and technology events.
- Demonstrate strong drive for results and success; convey a sense of urgency to achieve outcomes and exceed expectations; persist despite obstacles, setbacks and competing influences.
Now Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities: we could put under Skills or Qualifications. The instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we have Skills and Qualifications separate. We need to decide where to put knowledge/skills and abilities. Probably Skills section for abilities, and Qualifications for education/experience. Or we could combine knowledge/skills under Skills, and education/experience under Qualifications.
Thus:
Skills
- Ability to self-motivate, set goals and meet deadlines.
- High energy and assertive approach.
- Creative and fearless in building cultivating relationships.
- Ability to take direction/feedback and work closely with colleagues to close opportunities and prospective customers.
- Leadership, timeliness, professionalism, desire to learn, and willingness to contribute to continuous improvement.
- Basic Microsoft Office / Adobe technology familiarity.
- Proven IT prospecting, business development, relationship management and communication skills.
- Advanced Microsoft Office / Adobe technology familiarity.
- Advanced channel selling and relationship management skills.
- Team leadership, Sales pipeline and organizational management skills.
Note there is both Basic and Advanced Microsoft Office/Adobe familiarity; we keep both as separate bullets.
Now Qualifications (education/experience):
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business or equivalent.
- 5+ yrs IT industry sales and/or marketing experience.
- Preferred Master’s Degree in Business or equivalent.
- 7+ yrs PC manufacturer B2B sales experience.
- Expert in $1M+ prospecting, business development, sales closure.
Now Benefits: we have a paragraph describing benefits. Let's extract:
"We offer an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, 401k, Paid Time Off, Medical, Prescription, Dental and Vision benefits as well as Gym Reimbursement, Work from Home Reimbursement, Employee Purchase Program, Tuition Assistance and much more!As a D&H Co-Owner you receive numerous discounts on services.We feel strongly about giving back to the community and promoting sustainable, eco-friendly business practices."
We can turn into list.
Benefits
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan
- 401k
- Paid Time Off
- Medical, Prescription, Dental and Vision benefits
- Gym Reimbursement
- Work from Home Reimbursement
- Employee Purchase Program
- Tuition Assistance
- Numerous discounts on services (as a D&H Co-Owner)
- Community involvement and sustainable, eco-friendly business practices
We should preserve the phrase "much more!" but we can keep as generic; but we should not invent. We could add "and much more!" as a bullet? Might be vague. Better to keep as a bullet: "and much more!" but that's filler. The instruction says do not emit filler/placeholder text like "varies", "TBD". "and much more!" is vague but it's part of the original text. It's not a placeholder like "not specified". It's a phrase indicating additional benefits. I'd keep it as a bullet: "and much more!" maybe okay. But we could incorporate into previous bullet: "Employee Stock Ownership Plan, 401k, Paid Time Off, Medical, Prescription, Dental and Vision benefits as well as Gym Reimbursement, Work from Home Reimbursement, Employee Purchase Program, Tuition Assistance and much more!" as a single bullet. That preserves the phrase.
Let's do that: one bullet capturing the whole benefits sentence, then separate bullet for discounts and community.
Thus:
Benefits
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan, 401k, Paid Time Off, Medical, Prescription, Dental and Vision benefits as well as Gym Reimbursement, Work from Home Reimbursement, Employee Purchase Program, Tuition Assistance and much more!
- Numerous discounts on services for D&H Co-Owners
- Commitment to giving back to the community and promoting sustainable, eco-friendly business practices
Now we have all sections.
We must not include Pay or Schedule.
Now output only HTML fragment.
Check for any duplicated lines: we have not repeated.
Check for any boilerplate removed: we removed intro fluff? We kept benefits and culture. The initial paragraph about D&H growing etc is partially captured in benefits and culture; we might have lost some description about "Join 100+ year old Employee-Owned technology distributor, offering end-to-end solutions for today's resellers, retailers, and the clients they serve across the SMB and Consumer markets. We are empowered by our employee Co-Owners who provide the industry’s best service, and we promote a collaborative culture." That's substantive about company. Should we include that somewhere? Could be part of About the role or a separate section like "About the company". But we only have allowed headings list; we could add a section "About the role" but that is about role, not company. There's no heading for "About the company". We could incorporate that into Benefits or About the role as prose. The instruction: "Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It says e.g., not limited to those. But they gave examples. It might be okay to add other headings if needed, but they said "include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it". The company description is specific content. Could we add a heading "About the company"? Not in the list but maybe allowed. However they gave examples; they might expect only those headings. Safer to incorporate that description into About the role or Benefits. The description about being employee-owned, collaborative culture, etc is relevant to benefits/culture. We could add a bullet under Benefits about "Employee-owned, collaborative culture". But we already have community involvement. Let's add a bullet: "Employee-owned technology distributor with a collaborative culture". That captures.
Thus adjust Benefits bullets:
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan, 401k, Paid Time Off, Medical, Prescription, Dental and Vision benefits as well as Gym Reimbursement, Work from Home Reimbursement, Employee Purchase Program, Tuition Assistance and much more!
- Numerous discounts on services for D&H Co-Owners
- Employee-owned technology distributor with a collaborative culture
- Commitment to giving back to the community and promoting sustainable, eco-friendly business practices
Now we have captured.
Now ensure we didn't miss any substantive info: The summary about role we captured. The essential duties we captured. Knowledge/skills we captured. Education/experience we captured. Benefits we captured.
Check for any other info: "As a D&H Co-Owner you receive numerous discounts on services." We covered that. "We feel strongly about giving back to the community and promoting sustainable, eco-friendly business practices." Covered.
Now output.
Make sure to use proper HTML: About the role
etc.
No extra text.
. We need to avoid repeating job title. Not needed. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's craft:
About the role
The primary role of the Business Development Manager is to identify and assist in developing strategic relationships with key partners or potential customers. This position will work in tandem with the inside and outside sales organization as well as cross departmentally with the marketing and vendor management groups to coordinate, plan, and execute sales activities based on strategic D&H and vendor initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Drive market share growth of assigned vendor(s) or category with an added focus on target accounts.
- Responsible for maintaining an appropriate lead generation pipeline to support the continuous flow of new sales opportunities.
- Provide a forward thinking approach to consistently create new leads.
- Executes on tactical outreach, referral generation, and pipelining efforts.
- Create and execute a quarterly sales plan and update manager on milestones.
- Documents important customer opportunities; ensures action is taken and leads are followed through.
- Actively position D&H value within solution category customers and vendor community.
- Drive sales via internal and external marketing and vendor go-to-market strategy.
- To cover channel depth and manage reseller performance/purchase.
- Responsible for demand generation and building new sales opportunity, build project pipeline follow through and close project funnel.
- Engagement and collaboration with vendor, internal, and external sales teams to win projects.
- To establish good rapport, good partnership with vendor and reseller account managers.
- Work collaboratively with assigned solutions category and peers.
- Submission of timely sales funnels to Division Manager and vendor's Channel Manager.
- Engage with customers through field visits and technology events.
- Demonstrate strong drive for results and success; convey a sense of urgency to achieve outcomes and exceed expectations; persist despite obstacles, setbacks and competing influences.
Skills
- Ability to self-motivate, set goals and meet deadlines.
- High energy and assertive approach.
- Creative and fearless in building cultivating relationships.
- Ability to take direction/feedback and work closely with colleagues to close opportunities and prospective customers.
- Leadership, timeliness, professionalism, desire to learn, and willingness to contribute to continuous improvement.
- Basic Microsoft Office / Adobe technology familiarity.
- Proven IT prospecting, business development, relationship management and communication skills.
- Advanced Microsoft Office / Adobe technology familiarity.
- Advanced channel selling and relationship management skills.
- Team leadership, Sales pipeline and organizational management skills.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business or equivalent.
- 5+ yrs IT industry sales and/or marketing experience.
- Preferred Master’s Degree in Business or equivalent.
- 7+ yrs PC manufacturer B2B sales experience.
- Expert in $1M+ prospecting, business development, sales closure.
Benefits
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan
- 401k
- Paid Time Off
- Medical, Prescription, Dental and Vision benefits
- Gym Reimbursement
- Work from Home Reimbursement
- Employee Purchase Program
- Tuition Assistance
- Numerous discounts on services (as a D&H Co-Owner)
- Community involvement and sustainable, eco-friendly business practices
Benefits
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan, 401k, Paid Time Off, Medical, Prescription, Dental and Vision benefits as well as Gym Reimbursement, Work from Home Reimbursement, Employee Purchase Program, Tuition Assistance and much more!
- Numerous discounts on services for D&H Co-Owners
- Commitment to giving back to the community and promoting sustainable, eco-friendly business practices