Nerd Street Gamers provides opportunity for gamers to gain experience in competitive esports competitions, and they also are home to a community of like minded amateur competitors. We believe that a successful sales team makes connections with its customers and creates long-lasting relationships. As the Business Development Manager for our esports company, you will be responsible for helping generate new revenue. You’ll be working alongside a team of sales professionals in both a B2B and B2C industry. We’re looking for a self-starting professional with managerial experience and a proven track record in sales. The ideal candidate will look forward to coming to work each day and helping our customers find the product implementation that works best for them.
Essential Job Functions:
- Your job is to deliver revenue through brand partnership sales and maximize company profits.
- Understand client’s business and objectives and inform the team; helping to facilitate continued business for Nerd Street.
- Provide status reports regularly to the team on various elements of partnership.
- Effectively communicate our value proposition through proposals and presentations.
- Seeking out major clients and forming working relationships with the premier buyers in our industry.
- Identifying valuable emerging markets.
- Developing the tools to grow our company’s product reach.
- Forecasting future sales and forming sales plans to adapt to constant shifts in the marketplace.
- Serving as a business representative at major industry events, conferences, trade shows, and expositions.
- Forming sales strategies to keep our company competitive and innovative while achieving sales targets and expanding our customer base.
- Coordinating the implementation of the sale with the rest of the relevant company departments.
- Day to day outreach and communication with leads and clients, coordinating with appropriate internal and external parties to ensure deliverables are met.
- Keeping projects on timelines, creating tracking documents for projects and holding teams accountable for deliverables working closely with the activation manager.
- Schedule status calls and maintain reporting on an internal and external basis; keeping all teams up to date on project status, scope changes, ongoing updates.
Non Essential Job Functions:
Other duties and responsibilities as assigned
Intellectual/Social, Physical Demands and Work Environment:
The intellectual/social, physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Intellectual/Social demands:
While performing the essential functions of this job, the employee is continuously asked to multi-task under time limits. Position requires constant attention to precise details and accuracy of specified standards including: following simple to complex (more than 3 steps) instructions, and concentration which frequently extends beyond 30 minutes at a time. Employees in this role will constantly be in leadership role; this requires directing others either verbally or in writing to complete tasks in prescribed time frame. This position also requires constant use of interpersonal skills including: ability to direct/motivate/inform staff and foster collaboration, being able to recognize and resolve conflicts, being able to openly communicate in writing and verbally with clients.
Physical demands:
While performing the essential functions of the job, the employee constantly operates a computer and other office devices such as telephones, copy machines, fax machines, etc; occasionally moves about inside the office to access storage areas, cabinets and office machinery; constantly moves about the arena and event sites before, during and after events to service clients and supervise staff; constantly communicates via telephone, email and in-person with others to exchange accurate information.
Work environment:
The duties of this position are performed indoors and occasionally outdoors in the weather conditions prevalent at the time. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud during events and minimal during non-even times.
Requirements
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience:
- Bachelors or Masters Degrees in business related discipline
- 3-5 years experience as a sales executive or sales manager
- Proven history of meeting and exceeding sales goals and quotas
- Proven ability to drive the sales process from plan to close
- Proven ability to articulate the distinct aspects of products and services
- Proven ability to position products against competitors
- Ability to communicate, present and influence all levels of the organization, including executive and C-level
- Number-oriented with strong math skills and well-developed business sense
- Extremely well informed about the market in which he or she works
- Able to accurately forecast sales predictions and shifts in the marketplace, both on a national scale and also for the individual regions under his or her charge
- Well-developed interpersonal skills, able to identify and acquire the best talent possible
- Maintain close, trusting relationships with those under their charge and facilitate open communication between branches and employees
Preferred Experience:
- Experience closing 6 and 7 figure deals
- A thorough understanding of the esports industry
- Experience within a start-up culture
Skills and Abilities:
- Excellent listening, negotiation and presentation skills
- Strong knowledge of Office Suite technology (Microsoft Office or Google)
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Critical thinking and analytical skills
Benefits
- Health Care (medical, vision, dental)
- Short and Long Term Disability
- Life Insurance
- Generous PTO and Holiday Availability
- Parental Leave
- Equity Eligibility
- Opportunity for Growth
