Market Development Manager

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BDS was founded in 1984 as a field marketing agency. Most recently, BDSmktg and Creative Channel joined to form the industry’s most progressive, sales-powered channel solutions provider, integrating as one company – BDS Connected Solutions.

While we have evolved quite a bit over the years, one thing has never changed: our culture. We continue to be driven by being a People-Led, Digital-First, Customer-Obsessed organization. Additionally, we are proud to staff award-winning industry experts and amazing teams of hard-working people who we call colleagues and friends.

AT A GLANCE:

We’re looking for a driven Market Development Manager who loves to build relationships with customers and sales associates to help drive sales.

This is a long-term, full-time, benefit eligible role offering paid drive time and mileage as well as a quarterly bonus.

PURPOSE:

As the Market Development Manager, you will be representing our client’s popular Robotic Vacuum products within well-known home furnishings, home improvement, and/or consumer electronics retailers. You will use your ability to approach and engage customers while providing fun and relevant demonstrations that will help close the sale.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Train, develop and educate retail sales specialists on the features and benefits of client's products
• Build and cultivate strong relationships with store associates and management as a trusted ally and brand representative
• Share observation, concerns, and potential solutions for what works and what can be improved, and report results daily
• Merchandise retail locations with visual displays and in-store promotional material
• Implement and troubleshoot visual merchandising
• Coordinate and execute special awareness and sales events at retail locations
• Deliver excellent sales/customer service and proactively greets, educates, and engage customers and store staff on featured products or promotions
• Ability to understand, retain and articulate product details in an ongoing, enthusiastic and confident manner
• Ability to easily connect with customers and store staff
• Work with store managers and sales associates in big box retail environments to develop plans that will create sales
• Provide impactful training and education to retail sales associates on the features and benefits of client's products
• Build strong partnerships with the store sales associates, providing value through support of your assigned stores

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• High school diploma or GED, college education preferred
• 2 year of retail sales or customer service experience- consumer electronics, vacuum experience a plus!

SKILLS AND REQUIREMENTS:

• Proven history of closing sales and exceeding goals
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Engaging and impactful presentation and training skills
• Excellent written and communication skills
• Multitasking and analytical skills
• Demonstrated ability to meet tight deadlines and changing priorities in a fast-paced environment, while maintaining the highest levels of customer service and detail
• Self-driven with the ability to take initiative, work independently, and prioritize workload
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Demonstrated ability work in a fast-paced environment, while maintaining the highest levels of customer service and detail
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Team-player and creative, strategic thinker
• Strong selling and demonstrating techniques when executing demo day events
• Ability and willingness to work weekends
• Reliable transportation to travel to multiple stores
• Ability to complete online reports accurately and in a timely manner
• Access to your own tablet (iPad, Samsung Galaxy Series, and many others) which you will bring to each event is preferred
• Reliable transportation to travel to multiple stores daily within assigned territory
• Ability to work weekends

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

The physical demands 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.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to:

• Regularly sit, grasp, talk and/or hear
• Occasionally walk and/or stand
• Occasionally carrying and lifting office supplies up to 75 lbs
• Continuous hand/eye coordination and fine manipulation

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $21.00 - $23.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Supplemental Pay:

• Bonus pay

Application Question(s):

• This role requires you to regularly travel between store locations within your assigned territory (paid mileage and drive time). Do you have reliable transportation to get to each location, and are you able to submit valid insurance upon hire during onboarding?

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Required)

Work Location: Multiple Locations