We believe in amplifying core human skills and abilities, giving people from all walks of life equal opportunity to thrive - and live a life of meaning, connection and purpose. If that mission excites you, you’ll be in Grand company.
Join as a Business Development Manager (BDM) and work at a rapidly growing Brisbane-based SKillsTech Startup. We simply ensure young people are aware of emerging high-growth career opportunities and are confident in the skills employers are actively seeking.
Your role:
As a skilled Business Development Manager, you are a core part of our executive team. As a senior representative, you will promote Grandshake at the national level.
You are rather resourceful and intrinsically motivated in driving high-growth strategies and sales engineering that leads to immediate and long-term revenue opportunities.
You are an autonomous operator with a positive, proactive and growth mindset who wants to play their part in bridging this gap between education and the real world, so young people and organisations can thrive.
In a nutshell, you have an urgent hunger to:
- Work in a rapidly growing high impact Startup environment.
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Help people discover value through an innovative solution.
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Be part of a values-driven workplace that empowers people.
Your responsibilities:
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Develop a high-growth strategy focused both on financial gain and customer satisfaction
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Conduct research to identify new markets and customer needs
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Arrange business meetings with prospective clients
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Promote our products/services addressing or predicting clients’ objectives
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Design and deliver sales proposals and negotiate contracts
- Deploy a solution-selling mindset that leads to positive relationships
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Develop and monitor an effective sales engineering process that leads to an increase in: month-over-month//year-over-year revenue, number of leads qualified, units sold/profit margins, customer lifetime value, and win rates.
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Proactively monitor and deploy practices that reduce: customer churn, customer acquisition cost, and reduce closed-won deal cycle time.
Build long-term relationships with new and existing customers, industry bodies, associations and government.
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Requirements and skills:
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Experience in designing optimal sales journeys via CRM software (Hubspot).
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Autonomous operator with a positive, proactive and growth mindset.
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Skilled in building rapport
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High-level communication skills
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Stakeholder management skills
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Proven ability to negotiate
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Experience with design and implementation of business development strategy
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The ability to self-motivate and motivate a team
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Experience working to and exceeding targets
Good to have:
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Ideally background in workforce planning, entry-level talent recruitment (graduate or apprenticeship), social impact or diversity and inclusion.
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Previous enterprise sales experience and mature relationships in infrastructure, engineering, and energy sector (i.e. STEM sector) will be highly regarded.
Your values:
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Think independently
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Communicate openly and mindfully
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Value the intensive pursuit of truth and excellence
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Take the initiative and have a high sense of personal accountability
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Are generous and fair
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Listen and act, without ego
Role logistics :
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Direct reporting to the Founder and Chief Executive Officer.
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Full-time role, starts ASAP.
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Role open to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne locations.
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Competitive remuneration plus Equity.
Grandshake has always been a diverse and inclusive workplace and wishes to encourage applications from Indigenous Australians, people from various cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disabilities and LGBTIQ+ individuals.
Ready to apply? submit a short video CV and upload resume after you've recorded the video. email CV and cover letter directly at [email protected].
Don't stress you can try a few times before submitting the final video CV.
