Business Development Associate

Summary

Join our team as a Business Development Associate and play a key role in selling sponsorships and attendee passes for Opal Group events, while developing relationships with clients to secure their attendance. This is a remote full-time international consultant position with a salary of $1500.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• 1 - 3 years of experience in sales/sponsorships
• Preferably call center customer service experience
• Ability to meet monthly sales goals
• Experience selling intangible services
• Excellent communication skills, both writing and speaking
• Outstanding interpersonal abilities, including the capacity to relate to people at all levels both inside and outside the business
• Ability to interface with the Opal Group team, clients, vendors, prospects, and the public
• Ability to conduct research and complete business transactions from A to Z

Responsibilities

• Conduct prospect research and develop a plan of action for communicating the value of Opal Group Conferences to key decision-makers
• Finding, pitching, sponsorship opportunities, as well as ensuring audience attendance
• Discovery of new leads through LinkedIn, emails, research and tools that Opal provides
• Logging all new leads, current interactions, and client updates in the CRM database
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients in order to garner new business
• Display professionalism and maintain constant correspondence with clients via phone and e-mail