Business Development Associate

Summary

The job is for an Associate at Vaco, a fast-growing staffing firm. The role involves generating sales, recruiting top talent, and establishing client relationships. The desired competencies include customer focus, results orientation, effective communication, planning forethought, interpersonal intelligence, decision quality, collaboration, and education/experience in B2B sales or recruitment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 0 to 18 months B2B sales and/or recruitment required

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain target list developing client relationships
• Conduct prospecting activities including phone calls, 'ad calls', skills marketing, email, social media, in-person meetings, and other methods
• Generate new job orders weekly in line with performance objectives
• Manage new and open job orders from intake to fulfillment
• Proactively identify, assess, and recruit qualified talent to fulfill job orders
• Update, review, and actively utilize a candidate skills matrix in recruitment activities
• Perform weekly interviews in line with performance objectives
• Generate leads via professional relationships, candidate interviews, and other interactions that support business development/sales efforts
• Utilize Bullhorn to log all activity, notes, and information vital to managing and growing a book of business as well as planning daily activities
• Collaborate with teammates to cross-sell and/or fulfill open positions across other lines of business and/or national practices as appropriate

Preferred Qualifications

Advanced, relevant experience considered in lieu of Bachelor's degree

Benefits

Vaco offers health insurance, retirement benefits, paid time off, remote work, flexible hours, life and disability insurance, bonuses and incentives, professional development opportunities, wellness programs, family and parental leave