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Sales - Business Development Director - Stamford, CT

BI WORLDWIDE · Stamford, CT · 1 mo ago
Business Development$250k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate. We need to parse the posting. Content: - Intro: "Do you live in Stamford, Connecticut or Westchester County? Are you competitive, confident in your ability to sell, assertive, and dependable? Are you curious, have strong business acumen and have a passion for understanding how businesses work? Can you provoke constructive conversation with your customers? Do you work well in a dynamic team environment? We are BI WORLDWIDE®. Inspiring people. Delivering results. We're the global leader in solutions that drive measurable results for our clients around the world by inspiring the people who impact their success. We help translate their strategic imperatives into actionable solutions that utilize the principles of behavioral economics to engage, motivate and inspire their employees, sales force, channel partners, and customers delivering measurable results on a local, national, and global level. We are seeking candidates located in the Stamford, Connecticut or Westchester County area to join our regional sales team. The Business Development Director is an individual contributor and is responsible for identifying potential business opportunities, developing relationships and understanding the customer's critical business strategies within accounts in southern Connecticut, and the New York City market then working with a team of subject matter experts to create and execute a solution to help achieve the customer's business objectives." That's about the role and responsibilities. Then "Qualifications" list: - Must be currently located in southern Connecticut or the Westchester County, area. - Minimum seven years of direct B2B sales experience calling on Fortune 1000 companies - Clear history of new business development selling marketing solutions, or professional business services - Demonstrable sales success through prospecting and growing revenue in large accounts - Large volume sales experience ($250k plus per sale) - Experience with broad range of sales cycles (three to six to twelve months) - History of career stability with a maximum of three employers in the last ten years - Compensation derived through highly leveraged commissions and bonuses - Four year college degree is preferred - Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite products is required; Proficiency with web, SaaS, and mobile applications a plus Then "Compensation Opportunity" paragraph: "Compensation is not capped and is based on your performance. We offer a base salary of $140,000, plus a commission tied to your revenue productivity, as well as a fiscal year-end bonus calculated based on your revenue productivity and the profitability of that revenue. For your first two years, we also offer an opportunity to earn bonuses for achieving key performance indicators tied to sales activities." Then "Additional Benefits": "Business Development Directors are automatically eligible for a full suite of performance management reward programs, including an annual President's Club travel award. Other benefits include car allowance, company laptop, mobile device reimbursement and full expense account for client entertainment. Full List Of Benefits https://www.biworldwide.com/careers/benefits-page/" We need sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which sections have content. - About the role: Could be the introductory paragraph describing company and role. Could be considered "About the role". We'll include. - Responsibilities: The description of responsibilities: "identifying potential business opportunities, developing relationships and understanding the customer's critical business strategies within accounts in southern Connecticut, and the New York City market then working with a team of subject matter experts to create and execute a solution to help achieve the customer's business objectives." Also maybe the earlier questions about being competitive etc. But those are more like desired traits. Could be part of Requirements or Skills. We'll put responsibilities as that sentence. - Requirements: Could be location requirement, years experience, etc. But we have Qualifications separate. The spec says we can have both Requirements and Qualifications sections. We need to decide what goes where. Usually Requirements are mandatory, Qualifications are preferred. But we can just put all listed items under Qualifications. However we need to avoid thin sections. Let's see: We have location requirement, 7 years B2B sales, history of new business development, demonstrable sales success, large volume sales experience, experience with sales cycles, career stability, compensation derived through commissions (that's more comp), college degree preferred, proficiency in MS Office required, web/SaaS/mobile a plus. Those are qualifications. We could put Requirements as the location and maybe the "must be currently located..." plus maybe "minimum seven years..." etc. But that seems overlapping. To avoid thin sections, we could combine Requirements and Qualifications into one Qualifications section. But the instruction says we can include sections only when posting has real specific content for it. It doesn't forbid having both Requirements and Qualifications if they have content. We could split: Requirements: location, 7 years B2B sales, clear history of new business development, demonstrable sales success, large volume sales experience, experience with sales cycles, career stability. Qualifications: college degree preferred, proficiency in MS Office required, web/SaaS/mobile a plus. That seems reasonable. - Skills: Could be "Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite products is required; Proficiency with web, SaaS, and mobile applications a plus" maybe also "strong business acumen", "curious", "competitive, confident, assertive, dependable", "ability to provoke constructive conversation", "work well in dynamic team". Those are more like skills/traits. Could put under Skills. - Benefits: We have benefits paragraph. - Pay: We have compensation details. - Schedule: Not mentioned. So we should not include Schedule section. - Also maybe "About the role" could be omitted if we think it's covered by Responsibilities. But we have intro about company and role. Could be considered About the role. We need to ensure we don't include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to output only HTML fragment, no markdown. We'll structure:

About the role

... company description and role overview ...

Responsibilities

  • Identify potential business opportunities
  • Develop relationships and understand customer's critical business strategies within accounts in southern Connecticut and the New York City market
  • Work with a team of subject matter experts to create and execute solutions to help achieve customer's business objectives
But we need to preserve all substantive information; we shouldn't lose nuance. Could keep as a single

with the sentence. However instruction: Use

  • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. The responsibilities are a list of duties; we can bullet them. We need to ensure we don't invent content. The original sentence: "The Business Development Director is an individual contributor and is responsible for identifying potential business opportunities, developing relationships and understanding the customer's critical business strategies within accounts in southern Connecticut, and the New York City market then working with a team of subject matter experts to create and execute a solution to help achieve the customer's business objectives." We can split into three bullets: identify potential business opportunities; develop relationships and understand customer's critical business strategies within accounts in southern Connecticut and the New York City market; work with a team of subject matter experts to create and execute a solution to help achieve the customer's business objectives. That's accurate. Now Requirements section: list items. We need to decide what goes in Requirements. From qualifications list, we can treat the following as requirements (mandatory): - Must be currently located in southern Connecticut or the Westchester County area. - Minimum seven years of direct B2B sales experience calling on Fortune 1000 companies. - Clear history of new business development selling marketing solutions, or professional business services. - Demonstrable sales success through prospecting and growing revenue in large accounts. - Large volume sales experience ($250k plus per sale). - Experience with broad range of sales cycles (three to six to twelve months). - History of career stability with a maximum of three employers in the last ten years. These are all mandatory-sounding. We'll bullet them. Qualifications section: preferred items: - Four year college degree is preferred. - Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite products is required. - Proficiency? Actually required. But we could put required under Skills? But we already have Skills. However the instruction says use
    • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can list qualifications as list. But we have proficiency in MS Office required; that's a skill. Could go under Skills. But we also have "Proficiency with web, SaaS, and mobile applications a plus". That's also skill. We could put Skills section: proficiency in MS Office required; proficiency with web, SaaS, mobile a plus; strong business acumen; curious; competitive; confident; assertive; dependable; ability to provoke constructive conversation; works well in dynamic team environment. But many of those are traits from the intro questions. We should preserve them. Let's extract traits from intro: - Do you live in Stamford, Connecticut or Westchester County? (location) - Are you competitive, confident in your ability to sell, assertive, and dependable? (traits) - Are you curious, have strong business acumen and have a passion for understanding how businesses work? (traits) - Can you provoke constructive conversation with your customers? (skill) - Do you work well in a dynamic team environment? (trait) Thus we can include those under Skills or maybe under Requirements? They are more like desired attributes. We'll put them under Skills. Now Benefits section: list benefits. We have: "Business Development Directors are automatically eligible for a full suite of performance management reward programs, including an annual President's Club travel award." plus "Other benefits include car allowance, company laptop, mobile device reimbursement and full expense account for client entertainment." plus link to full list. We'll bullet: Annual President's Club travel award (via performance management reward programs); Car allowance; Company laptop; Mobile device reimbursement; Full expense account for client entertainment. We could also mention eligibility for performance management reward programs. Now Pay section: base salary $140,000, plus commission tied to revenue productivity, fiscal year-end bonus based on revenue productivity and profitability, plus first two years opportunity to earn bonuses for achieving KPIs tied to sales activities. Also compensation not capped. We'll put that in a

      maybe. Now we need to ensure we don't repeat job title. Not using. Now we need to output only HTML fragment. Let's craft. We'll start with About the role: combine company description and role overview. Company description: "We are BI WORLDWIDE®. Inspiring people. Delivering results. We're the global leader in solutions that drive measurable results for our clients around the world by inspiring the people who impact their success. We help translate their strategic imperatives into actionable solutions that utilize the principles of behavioral economics to engage, motivate and inspire their employees, sales force, channel partners, and customers delivering measurable results on a local, national, and global level." Role overview: "We are seeking candidates located in the Stamford, Connecticut or Westchester County area to join our regional sales team. The Business Development Director is an individual contributor and is responsible for identifying potential business opportunities, developing relationships and understanding the customer's critical business strategies within accounts in southern Connecticut, and the New York City market then working with a team of subject matter experts to create and execute a solution to help achieve the customer's business objectives." We could combine into one

      or two. Probably one

      with both. Now Responsibilities

        . Now Requirements
          with the seven items. Now Qualifications
            with college degree preferred, proficiency in MS Office required, proficiency with web/SaaS/mobile a plus. Now Skills
              with traits: competitive, confident in ability to sell, assertive, dependable; curious; strong business acumen; passion for understanding how businesses work; ability to provoke constructive conversation with customers; works well in dynamic team environment. We could split each as separate
            • . Now Benefits
                with items. Now

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