Business Development Manager

Career Area: Sales

Occupation Group: Sales Managers

Salary

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A typical Business Development Manager earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $80,255

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $82,856

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Identifies new business opportunities and clients for a company, and develops marketing and sales strategies to help grow a company's business. Builds customer relationships and partnerships and negotiates business deals. Works with senior marketing and sales staff to increase sales opportunities.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every Business Development Manager is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Building Effective Relationships: Building relationships is about your ability to identify and initiate working relationships and to develop and maintain them in a way that is of mutual benefit to both yourself and the other party. Good relationships are the key to getting things done and are essential when your success is dependent on others.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.
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Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Business Development: Business development entails tasks and processes to develop and implement growth opportunities within and between organizations.
• Sales: Experience selling products or services to consumers.
• Budgeting: Experience planning how the financial resources of a business or department are to be allocated during the next business period.
• Customer Service: Working experience with the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase.
• Project Management: Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria.

Distinguishing Skills

Any Business Development Manager that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Market Strategy: Marketing strategy includes all basic, short-term, and long-term activities in the field of marketing that deal with the analysis of the strategic initial situation of a company and the formulation, evaluation and selection of market-oriented strategies that contribute to the goals of the company and its marketing objectives.
• Sales Strategy: A sales strategy is a plan by a business or individual on how to go about selling products and services and increasing profits.
• Sales Planning: Experience setting profit-based sales targets, quotas, sales forecasting, demand management and the execution of a sales plan.
• Sales Cycle: The sales cycle is the process that companies undergo when selling a product to a customer. It encompasses all activities associated with closing sale.
• Business Strategy: Strategic management is the formulation and implementation of the major goals and initiatives taken by a company's top management on behalf of owners, based on consideration of resources and an assessment of the internal and external environments in which the organization competes.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• Business Development Manager
• Business Development Executive
• Development Manager
• Sales Manager
• Business Development Officer

Similar Occupations

If you are interested in exploring similar occupations, you may want to research the following job titles:

• Director of Business Development
• Director of Sales
• Marketing Manager (General)