Director Business Development

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Belmont, NC, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Manufacturing
The Role
The Director of Business Development is responsible for driving sales strategies, managing key accounts, leading growth initiatives, and ensuring customer profitability through strategic planning and implementation.
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Job Summary & Responsibilities

Position Summary:

This position is responsible for developing and executing market and sales strategies focused on enterprise and national account growth, including new logo acquisition and expanding share of wallet within existing customers. The Business Development Manager will lead and manage strategic business development activities across both prospective and established enterprise customers.


Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Develops and implements strategic sales plans aligned with enterprise and national growth objectives
  • Leads development and execution of strategic customer plans and objectives across key accounts
  • Identifies and prioritizes target enterprise customers and new logo opportunities
  • Leads the account planning process with a focus on penetration and share of wallet expansion
  • Develops and maintains monthly target account and pipeline reporting
  • Supports and promotes focus vendors and corporate initiatives
  • Drives cross-selling of products and services to maximize customer value and share of wallet
  • Negotiates appropriate contract pricing aligned with enterprise agreements
  • Ensures successful contract implementation across customer locations
  • Ensures customer profitability meets company guidelines while expanding long-term value
  • Delivers sales presentations to enterprise-level stakeholders and decision-makers
  • Monitors and evaluates competitive activity within target markets
  • Establishes clear accountability and ownership for each RFQ and new logo pursuit
  • Provides tools, insights, and resources to support enterprise growth initiatives
  • Manages resource utilization to optimize business development effectiveness
  • Drives a team-based sales approach for complex enterprise opportunities
  • Provides technical and commercial leadership to enhance value propositions
  • Interfaces with product managers to support integrated and cross-category solutions
  • Ensures all proposals and contracts comply with corporate guidelines
Preferred Qualifications

Job Qualifications:

Education and/or Experience:

  • Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university; or
  • 5+ years of related experience in enterprise or national account business development; or
  • Equivalent combination of education and experience

Work Environment & Physical Demands:

Reasonable accommodations will be evaluated and may be implemented to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of this position

  • This position requires public speaking and the ability/desire to present in front of others.
  • Associates are regularly required to sit, stand and bend.
  • This job operates in a professional office environment and routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, binding machines, filing cabinets, etc.
  • Position requires long periods of time working on a computer and performing repetitive key-boarding activities.
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
  • May be required to handle hazardous materials and wear various forms of protective equipment (shoes, gloves, protective eyewear, etc.).
  • Evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand and may include little to no advanced notice.
  • May be required to lift up to 10 lbs.

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university; or 5+ years of related experience in enterprise or national account business development.
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The Company
HQ: Belmont, NC
2,681 Employees
Year Founded: 1865

What We Do

Vallen is a leading provider of indirect industrial supplies—all those materials that are not part of the products our customers manufacture. From earplugs to specialty tools, to abrasives and cutting tools, we cover the vast majority of our customers’ maintenance, repair, operations and production-related needs. Vallen is also a leader in safety services with offerings that include equipment inspection, maintenance, certification and solution design. Many of our customers look to us for integrated supply solutions and vendor-managed inventory, with Vallen associates on-site, bringing local knowledge and expertise to the specific needs of individual facilities.

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