Business Development Manager, Retail

Posted Yesterday
Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
159K-254K Annually
Entry level
Cloud • Fintech • Food • Information Technology • Software • Hospitality
We empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive.
The Role
Leads and grows a business development team focused on generating retail sales opportunities and revenue. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, training, performance management, quota attainment, productivity tracking, metric reporting, talent planning, and collaboration with retail sales managers and account executives. The role also supports establishing a new retail sales vertical and developing its sales playbook.
Summary Generated by Built In

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy. After years building the best POS platform for restaurateurs, Toast is expanding its offerings into other food and beverage concepts such as convenience stores, grocery stores, and bottle shops. This role will require a founder’s mindset as we grow Toast’s presence in this new vertical with a new offering: the Toast Retail platform. 

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to join the sales leadership team at Toast!

What you’ll do (Responsibilities):

As a Manager for the Business Development team, you will hire, develop, coach, and train a team of outbound business development professionals. If you enjoy managing and building a team and are excited about transforming the way convenience stores, grocery stores, and bottle shops operate, then this is the role for you!

  • Hire, coach and manage a team of Business Development Representatives (BDR) to exceed quota.
  • Lead by example in demonstrating Toast’s core values and inspiring a culture of high performance, respect and fun.
  • Manage day to day activities of the BDR team including: live coaching, career and skill development, monitor productivity metrics to identify opportunities and risks, and ultimately drive results on activity, opportunity generation and revenue creation.
  • Keep a tight focus on outcomes, impact, and productivity, and report results to senior growth sales and marketing leadership.
  • Work closely with cross-functional partners on the Retail Sales Team, such as managers and account executives, to ensure proper alignment on opportunity quality.
  • Work to identify the best talent in our industry and maintain headcount requirements across your team.

What you’ll need to thrive (Requirements):

  • Management experience with a proven track record of hiring, retaining and developing individuals and team
  • Experience working in and building business development teams that drive opportunities and revenue.
  • An ability to adapt amidst rapid growth and change.
  • Experience achieving and exceeding goals (as individual or manager) and building and managing key metrics for a sales organization.
  • Self motivated, creative, empathetic, flexible with the ability to perform well under pressure.
  • Proficient in CRM systems (Salesforce)
  • An entrepreneurial and feedback-driven mindset.

What will help you stand out (Nonessential Skills/Nice to Haves):

  • Direct experience working in the hospitality or retail industries
  • Experience standing up a new vertical or establishing the playbook for success with a new sales motion

AI at Toast

At Toast, one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture.


Our Total Rewards Philosophy

We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.


#LI-DNI

The estimated Total Targeted Cash compensation range for this role is listed below. Total Targeted Cash for this role includes base salary, commission, and bonus (if eligible). This role qualifies for uncapped commissions. The starting salary will be determined based on skills, experience, and geographic location. In addition to cash compensation, our total rewards components include benefits and equity (if eligible). You can learn more about how we align pay with local labor markets in our Geographic Pay Zone Philosophy.

Zone A
$159,000—$254,000 USD
Zone B
$138,000—$221,000 USD
Zone C
$124,000—$199,000 USD

How Toast Uses AI in its Hiring Process

Throughout the hiring process, our goal is to get to know you. We use AI tools to support our recruiters and interviewers with tasks like note-taking, summarization, and documentation of interviews to ensure they can be fully focused on your conversation. All hiring decisions are made by people. We ask that you complete interviews and assessments on your own, without real-time AI tools, recording, or transcription bots, unless we tell you otherwise in advance. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring

Our Approach to Hybrid Working
We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the hospitality community, regardless of location. Please visit the Locations page on our career site to learn more about our in-office expectations by region: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast

People Are the Secret Ingredient in Our Recipe for Success

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry brings together people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we value that same breadth at Toast. We strive to build a culture grounded in authenticity, respect, and humility, where every Toaster has a real opportunity to grow, contribute, and do their best work—raising the bar in delivering exceptional experiences for our customers and each other.

Apply today!

Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected].

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Skills Required

  • Management experience with a proven track record of hiring, retaining, and developing individuals and teams
  • Experience building and managing business development teams that drive opportunities and revenue
  • Ability to adapt amid rapid growth and change
  • Experience achieving and exceeding goals as an individual or manager
  • Experience building and managing key metrics for a sales organization
  • Self-motivated, creative, empathetic, and flexible, with the ability to perform well under pressure
  • Proficiency in CRM systems, including Salesforce
  • Entrepreneurial and feedback-driven mindset
  • Direct experience in the hospitality or retail industries
  • Experience establishing a new vertical or sales-motion playbook

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Toast Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off options include flexible/unlimited PTO, multiple leave programs, paid holidays, volunteer time, and a paid sabbatical after five years. These are consistently presented as standout elements of the package.
  • Parental & Family Support — Paid parental and family leave are described as generous for all parents, with added family-forming benefits and subsidized backup child/adult care. This breadth extends to adoption/fostering support and fertility guidance or stipends.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing resources include free therapy and coaching, financial education, and wellness stipends. Work‑enablement stipends and other lifestyle perks are also highlighted.

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The Company
HQ: Boston, MA
5,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

Toast is the all-in-one platform built for restaurants of all sizes. Toast provides a single platform of software as a service (SaaS) products and financial technology solutions that give restaurants everything they need to run their business, including point of sale, payments, supplier management, digital ordering and delivery, marketing and loyalty, and team management. By serving as the restaurant operating system across dine-in, takeout, and delivery channels, Toast helps restaurants increase revenue, streamline operations and deliver amazing guest experiences.

Why Work With Us

Our recipe for an awesome workplace: One splash of friendship A dollop of impact A sprinkle of no hierarchy & A heavy spoonful of individuality Mix these ingredients in a fast-paced and hardworking environment. Best paired with a side of interesting people who always bring their whole selves to work. *100% Sunday scary free

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