About Performics:

Are you ready to re-invent digital marketing?  At Performics, we’re accelerating the great missions of our clients—brands like Lenovo, Toyota, Verizon, and Comcast in the ever-evolving world of search engine marketing, programmatic, social media, and ecommerce marketplaces. 

If you’re ready to move at the speed of Google, Facebook, and Twitter, have an entrepreneurial spirit, get excited about finding smarter ways to do things, and demand performance for your clients, we’d love to meet you.  We’ll give you the tools, support, and freedom to lead, innovate, and grow.  We hire exceptional people for our global headquarters in Chicago and U.S. locations in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, and San Francisco.  Our international presence spans 57 markets (and growing) including regional hubs in London, Dubai, and Singapore.

We are dedicated to ensuring an inclusive environment where employees feel empowered to share their experiences and ideas.  We encourage participation in a variety of Business Resource Groups, including groups for Women, People of Color, Veterans, LGTBQ community and allies, and more.  For more information regarding our efforts around diversity and inclusion visit us at https://rse2018.publicisgroupe.com/en/nos-talents or ask your recruiter for details.

Overview:
 

The Business Development Director will lead Performics’ efforts in reaching out to and communicating with potential clients and fitting their digital needs to Performics’ service offerings. 

Role Objectives:

• Assist with writing, editing, and distribution of RFI/RFP responses
• Manage new business status meetings and issue weekly new business status reports
• Ongoing innovation around the business development process to improve demonstration of value to prospects/clients
• Activate the U.S. outbound sales plan through targeted outreach to potential clients
• Research emerging companies within each targeted vertical for proactive prospecting
• Develop customized sales collateral to reach prospects thru creative messaging and thought leadership
• Manage and elevate business development content database for U.S and global teammates
• Assist in creating overarching storyline, strategy, and end-to-end solutions for pitches
• Lead all aspects of prospective client relationships from outreach/prospecting to negotiation/close through transitioning the account to a full service team
• Assist in creation and execution of a yearly business development strategy
• Guide Performics’ Client Solutions Consultants to elevate the quality of all deliverables and constantly improve our process and professionalism
• Manage the development of the U.S. Business Development Coordinator
• Participate in and lead U.S. business development process as pitch captain on select opportunities

• Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent)
• 4-7 years of relevant sales experience
• Ability to work effectively in a cross-collaboration environment and bring ideas together for a better solution
• Strong project management skills, results-oriented team player
• Great “people skills” and ability to build relationships
• Fluency in Power Point, Word, and social media
• Graphic design or video production skills a plus
• Strong attention to detail

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.