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Senior Business Development Manager - Life Sciences

ABM Industries
  • Raleigh, NC
  • $95,000–$115,000 Per Year
3 days ago

Job Description

Overview

This position is responsible for developing new Life Sciences Facility customers within assigned region, pricing and selling Facility Agreements and Projects to both new and existing customers. This position will also be responsible for an annual targeted sales goal. 

Benefit Information:

 

Benefit Information: ABM offers a comprehensive benefits package. For information about ABM’s benefits, visit ABM Employee Benefits | Staff & Management

 

Pay: 95,000– $115,000

The pay listed is the salary range for this position. Any specific offer will vary based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, skills, abilities, geographic location, and alignment with market data.​

 

Responsibilities

  • Prospect and develop opportunities for Life Sciences Facility Service Contracts and projects.

  • Seek for new business by cold call activities, networking, and lead generation & qualification.

  • Identify and build a diversified customer base by prospecting for potential new clients and turning this into increased business.

  • Gather technical & business requirements from potential customers.

  • Partner the ABM manufacturing Facility SME to prepare and deliver technical presentations to existing and potential customers.

  • Work with operations and sales support teams to develop proposals that meet the client’s needs, concerns, and objectives.

  • Participate in pricing the solution/service.

  • Handle objections by clarifying, emphasizing agreements and working through differences to a positive conclusion.

  • Maintain reporting of leads, in-progress active prospects and sales forecast in Salesforce.

  • Attend events, trade shows, and trade association meetings (including after hours) to facilitate networking opportunities.

  • Perform site surveys and assists the customer with solutions development.

  • Work with internal customers to provide scope solutions for customer issues.

  • Participate in ongoing training of new technology and industry related equipment.

  • Provide leadership to others through example and sharing of knowledge/skills.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience. 

  • 10+ years of experience including finding, qualifying, and closing new business primarily through cold calls and self-generated leads.

  • Demonstrated sales lead development and account cultivation skills, including effective negotiation and closing techniques.

  • Ability to produce a persuasive proposal through exceptional writing skills as required for all RFP’s, RFQ’s, contracts, and all other forms of written communication to the client.

  • Must have strong written and oral communication skills, presentation skills, and computer skills in in MS PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.

  • Knowledge of Salesforce or another CRM desirable.

  • Must be comfortable with speaking to large audiences.

  • Ability to understand operating budgets.

  • Ability to collaborate with an Operations Team, meet firm deadlines and quarterback the team so they do the same.

  • High level of problem-solving skills, motivation and professionalism.

  • Ability to prioritize projects and execute and deliver key objectives in a timely manner. 

  • Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, dynamic, results-oriented environment.  

Numbers & Facts

LocationRaleigh, NC
IndustryBusiness Services - Other
Salary$95,000–$115,000 Per Year
Company Size10,000 employees or more
Year Founded1909
Websitehttp://www.abm.com/

About Company

ABM offers a wide variety of service-related positions, including electricians, HVAC technicians, security officers, parking attendants, and cleaning jobs. ABM cares about your success.

We provide training so that you learn new job skills and take pride in the quality service you're giving to clients. You'll look like the trained professional you are when you wear a ABM uniform.For your health and safety, we use non-toxic cleaning products and up-to-date equipment.

Our internal training program focuses on teaching you the skills and processes that have helped many of our employees starting out as a janitor, cashier, security officer or building engineer grow into various management roles throughout the company. These jobs aren't your everyday at ABM; they are careers.

Thousands of commercial, industrial, government and retail clients look to ABM for consistent quality service that meets their specialized facility service needs including commercial cleaning and maintenance, facility engineering, energy efficiency, parking and security services.

With fiscal 2011 revenues of approximately $4.2 billion and nearly 100,000 employees, our 300+ offices across the U.S. and various international locales enable us to provide custom facility solutions to sites of all sizes — from neighborhood banks and schools to the largest and most complex facilities, such as corporate office parks and major airports.

With more than 300+ offices located throughout the country, we are always accepting applications for janitorial maintenance, landscaping gardeners, security guards, parking attendants, shuttle drivers and building engineers.

ABM IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER (MINORITY/FEMALE/VETERAN/DISABILITY)

Skills

  • Biologyunmatched
  • Budgetingunmatched
  • Business Developmentunmatched
  • Cold Calling Skillsunmatched
  • Communication Skillsunmatched
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM)unmatched
  • Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
  • Establish Prioritiesunmatched
  • Lead Generationunmatched
  • Leadershipunmatched
  • Manufacturingunmatched
  • Microsoft Excelunmatched
  • Microsoft PowerPointunmatched
  • Microsoft Wordunmatched
  • Negotiation Skillsunmatched
  • Operational Supportunmatched
  • Persuasion Skillsunmatched
  • Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
  • Pricingunmatched
  • Proposal Developmentunmatched
  • Proposal Writingunmatched
  • Request for Proposals (RFP)unmatched
  • Salesunmatched
  • Sales Closing Skillsunmatched
  • Sales Forecastingunmatched
  • Sales Prospectingunmatched
  • Sales Qualificationunmatched
  • Sales Supportunmatched
  • Salesforce.comunmatched
  • Team Playerunmatched
  • Technical Deliveryunmatched
  • Technical Presentationunmatched
  • Time Managementunmatched
  • Trade Showsunmatched
  • Writing Skillsunmatched

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