Business Development Partner

Exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated sales professional to join a growing, life sciences national staffing agency as a Business Development Partner.

Reporting to the Sr. Director, Clinical & Scientific Partnerships, this role will primarily be responsible for developing new business and managing client accounts. Qualified candidates must be articulate, goal-oriented, motivated and bright, with the ability to comfortably and effectively interface with all levels and work collaboratively with dynamic teams. Ability to travel up to 25%.

Responsibilities:

• Proactively search for client companies with staffing service needs 
• Build relationships, with the goal to be the vendor of choice 
• Meet sales metrics 
• Ensure client retention 
• Drive aggressive growth and profitability in a sustainable manner
• Be knowledgeable and current on client and prospect market insights, current events, and publications
• Negotiate contract terms with clients and communicate with stakeholders while ensuring contracts are executed as agreed upon
• Gather useful information from client and communicate effectively
• Create and deliver presentations to prospective clients and internal executives
• Conduct day-to-day account management responsibilities while providing excellent client service
• Assist in developing and executing marketing campaigns

Qualifications / Skills:

• Communication skills
• Motivation and drive for sales
• Prospecting skills
• Sales planning
• Selling to customer’s needs
• Account management
• Market knowledge
• Presentation skills
• Meeting sales goals
• Professionalism

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, science, or other related discipline
• At least 5 years of recent sales/business development experience in staffing
• Demonstrated success developing client relationships
• Experience in life sciences is preferred
• Clinical or Scientific recruiting experience is a plus

About The Steely Group 
The Steely Group is a national preclinical, clinical, and commercial staffing firm and certified women’s business enterprise. We partner with biotech, pharma, and gene therapy companies to help bring treatments to patients by providing flexible talent acquisition solutions including Contingent Search (Direct Hire, Contract, and Fractional Consultants) and Retained Executive Search.

The Steely Group is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person’s race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation or any characteristic protected under applicable law. The Steely Group  will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.