Senior Business Development Manager

Position: Senior Business Development Manager🌎 Location: In the NYC Office + Hybrid⬆ Reporting Into: Account Directors, Chief Creative Officer, Managing Director💰Compensation: $72,000 base + commission. This is a 1099 Independent Contractor position.📅 Start Date: 03/31/25 - or earlier.The role:This is a uniquely liberating and limitless position only fit for self-driven, relentlessly charming aggressors, who know how to close on $50k to $500k+ accounts with ease. If you are a charming aggressor with persistent passion, triathlete-level-like self-discipline, and enjoy being the starting player in the development of gorgeous branding and creative content consumed by the world, this is the home youve been looking for. Inbound: You will primarily support all in-bound requests ensuring instant response, optimizing the speed of our qualification process, and ensuring all clients whether $500k+ projects or $5k projects are treated with the utmost intelligence and sophistication. Your role is to process incoming prospects and lead them to a close-won account within an average of a 2-3 week deal age period. Ensuring all notes, activities, and contacts are logged in hubspot. Outreach: Secondarily, you will support the agency's new business outreach to decision makers and KOLs at the worlds leading brands and companies.How you will be successful:Comprehension of our services, our process, our difference is a key. You must fully understand the creative agency and brand marketing lingo. You must comprehend the marketing and strategic needs of these high profile accounts and possess the innate ability to connect our agency strengths and expertise to their specific needs, while working with the internal agencys leads to map out project scope, timelines, and budgets. Impeccable negotiation skills is a must. Exact duties include: RFI generation, RFP responses, RFP outreach, estimate creation, invoice review with finance, budget allocation with production team, keeping an eye on KPIs, and ensuring growth goals are hit, managing strong relationships with clients. Compliance with our processes and ways of working helps ensure a seamless integration into the agency.ResponsibilitiesChampion in-bound new business inquiresProactive sales outreach, Generate new leadsBudget/proposal negotiationsPresentation preparationForecast revenuePrepare status reports on goalsWho we are:VMGROUPE is a leading creative agency in New York, developing branding, content creation, digital storytelling, and performance marketing for high-profile and leading brands in the beauty, fine jewelry, fashion, fine food, wines & spirits, real estate, and the luxury lifestyle space. We deliver exceptional branding, memorable content, compelling storytelling, high conversion, and transformative growth. Elevating brands since 2006.Requirements:5+ years experience in sales and business developmentFull comprehension of what Branding/Advertising/Creative Agencies doYou possess an eye for design, because even your proposal and decks need to look nice.Positive energy and good vibes onlyHighly comfortable with working in extremely fast paced work environments.Qualifications3+ years of Branding / Creative Advertising Agency Sales and Sales Operations skills.Experience in Client Relations and Client ManagementBusiness Development skillsQuick thinker and worker with strong excel/powerpoint and CRM hubspot and seamless ai skillsMust have a do it now, get it done asap way of thinking and workingExperience driving multiple account proposals in a fast-paced environmentExcellent written and verbal communication skillsProven track record in achieving sales targets and revenue growthAbility to develop and maintain strong client relationshipsStrong attention to detail and organizational skillsThe ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teamsBachelors degree in business administration, marketing, or related field5+ years of sales and business development experience in the luxury and high-profile brand industries

Created: 2025-03-09