Business Development Director Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Flywheel's suite of digital commerce solutions accelerate growth across all major digital marketplaces for the world's leading brands.
We give clients access to near real-time performance measurement and improve sales, share, and profit.
With teams across the Americas, Europe and APAC, we offer a career with real impact, endless growth opportunities and the support you need to be the best you can be.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a Business Development Director responsible for selling the Flywheel service offerings to some of the world's largest brands.
As a Business Development Director, you will develop and execute a consultative sales strategy within an assigned territory to drive revenue growth with leading brands.
You will work in partnership with the pre-sales and marketing teams to prospect and engage relevant stakeholders within Targeted brands to develop opportunities across all relevant services and markets, managing these throughout the sales process until completion.
This role requires high attention to detail and organizational skills, exceptional communication abilities and the ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
What You'll Do:
Responsible for revenue growth to goal for a specific territory of targeted brands
Actively prospect and develop a qualified new business pipeline
Manage complex sales-cycles from initial customer engagement to closed sales
Demonstrate a strong understanding of current market trends and client needs.
Expert in what we do and how we do it, to solve clients' problems and enable them to achieve agreed-upon metrics
Comprehensive understanding of the sales process with the ability to engage executives at different levels of the organisation
End-to-End Business Planning:
Ability to build and defend through proof points, and strong storyboards in delivery of our capabilities and service offerings in support of client needs
Manage accurate lead, pipeline and forecast reporting on a regular basis
Collaborate with pre-sales and product marketing to create join demand generation strategies and potential use cases to engage prospective clients
Attend networking events to promote Flywheel solutions and identify potential future clients
Collaboration:
Must work with the Client Services organization to ensure we have command of the value proposition for all products and services, as well as current trends, and market demands.
Possess the ability to communicate to prospective Clients how we can help their business challenges and promote growth
Thought Leader:
Having a pulse and opinion on industry news, translating macro trends into tailored recommendations and actions for clients
Who You Are:
Bachelor's Degree or higher
10+ years of sales experience, selling mid-market to enterprise solutions into large companies (CPG companies would be advantageous);
Ability to reach and develop relationships with C-Level leadership or senior executives in your respective territory / accounts
Ability to sell internally and externally and have interrelationships across teams
Highly motivated Hunter mentality
Self starter with a large network of CPG contacts
Able to work in a fast-paced environment
Able to travel up to 15% as needed
1-2 years of experience with Salesforce
High attention to detail with the ability to efficiently prioritize and execute projects with quality
Strong communicator, naturally curious, and genuinely cares about client outcomes
Experience managing external relationships to meet mutually beneficial goals
Solution-oriented mindset that thrives in ambiguity and figuring out solutions and processes to complex problems
Comfortable in analyzing dashboards and utilizing spreadsheets with mastery of basic excel formulas and pivot tables to extract and clearly communicate insights from murky data
Bias for action with a scrappy willingness to roll up your sleeves and go the extra mile to persist and get the job done
Sense of ownership complemented by strong organization and project management skills to meet deadlines
Team player with a genuine desire to contribute to the overall success of the entire team in addition to strong written and verbal communication skills to effectively collaborate internally with colleagues
This position is commission eligible.
Working at Flywheel We are proud to offer all Flywheelers a competitive rewards package and unparalleled career growth opportunities and a supportive, fun and engaging culture.
We have office hubs across the globe where team members can go to feel productive, inspired, and connected to others - team members go into Hub Offices 3x a week
Flexible vacation time
Great learning and development opportunities
Benefits that help you live your best life
Parental leave and benefits
Volunteering opportunities
If you're looking to connect with teammates on a topic of inclusion and identity, chances are there's an ERG for that.
Every role starts the same, an introductory call with someone from our Talent Acquisition team.
We will be looking for company and values-fit as well as your professional experience; there may be some technical role-specific questions during this call.
Every role is different after the initial call, but you can expect to meet several people from the team 1:
1 and there might be further skill assessments in the form of a Take Home Assignment/Case Study Presentation or Pair Programming/Live Coding exercise depending on the role.
In your initial call, we will walk you through exactly what to expect the process to be.
Inclusive Workforce Flywheel Commerce Network's goal is to create a culture where all individuals of all backgrounds feel comfortable in bringing their authentic selves to work.
We want all people to feel included and empowered to contribute fully to our vision and goals.
Flywheel Commerce Network is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify.
All applicants will receive fair consideration for employment.
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