The Franchise Sales Business Development Specialist serves as a key partner to the Franchise Sales organization, supporting pipeline development and deal execution across the full sales lifecycle. This role is responsible for coordinating prospect engagement, managing sales activity flow, and enabling efficient progression from initial outreach through contract execution.
The position also coordinates with virtual assistant resources to ensure seamless scheduling, logistics execution, and consistent support across the sales organization. By aligning closely with sales leadership and leveraging CRM systems, this role enhances pipeline visibility, improves conversion efficiency, and delivers a high-quality experience for prospective franchise partners.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with Franchise Sales Executives to coordinate and manage active sales pipeline activities, ensuring timely progression of opportunities
- Support prospect engagement efforts, including scheduling and facilitating meetings, follow-ups, and key touchpoints
- Collaborate and coordinate virtual assistant resources, ensuring alignment on priorities, responsiveness, and quality of execution across scheduling and logistics
- Drive deal coordination and execution readiness, partnering with cross-functional teams (legal, finance, contracts) as needed
- Manage sales activity logistics, including travel planning and meeting coordination for prospect-facing engagements
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date pipeline data and activity tracking within Salesforce or CRM systems
- Ensure data integrity, reporting accuracy, and pipeline visibility to support sales leadership decision-making
- Assist in preparing sales materials, presentations, and prospect communications to support deal advancement
- Proactively identify and resolve process gaps or bottlenecks impacting pipeline velocity
- Partner with Sales Enablement and Operations to support process improvements and reporting insights
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in sales support, sales operations, business development, or coordination roles
- Experience working in a fast-paced, quota-driven sales environment
- Demonstrated experience coordinating across cross-functional teams and distributed support resources (including virtual assistants)
- Proficiency in CRM systems (Salesforce preferred) and Google Suite
- Strong attention to detail and ability to drive execution with a sense of urgency
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Key Competencies
- Pipeline & Deal Coordination
- Sales Process Execution
- CRM Data Management
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Virtual Resource Coordination
- Operational Efficiency & Process Improvement
- Time Management & Prioritization
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Anywhere is a global franchisor of some of the most recognized brands in the real estate industry. Our Franchise Group delivers value to agents and brokers through powerful marketing, sales support systems, training, mentorship, and tools & technology that help to fuel their success in a competitive real estate environment.
Anywhere Real Estate Inc. (NYSE: HOUS) is moving real estate to what's next. Home to some of the most recognized brands in real estate Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate, Century 21®, Coldwell Banker®, Coldwell Banker Commercial®, Corcoran®, ERA®, and Sotheby's International Realty® , we fulfill our purpose to empower everyone's next move through our leading integrated services, which include franchise, brokerage, relocation, and title and settlement businesses, as well as mortgage and title insurance underwriter minority owned joint ventures. Anywhere supports nearly 1 million home sale transactions annually and our portfolio of industry-leading brands turns houses into homes in more than 118 countries and territories across the world.
We are proud of our award-winning culture and are consistently recognized as an employer of choice by various organizations including:
- Great Place to Work
- Forbes World's Best Employers
- Newsweek World's Most Trustworthy Companies
- Ethisphere World's Most Ethical Companies
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in sales support, sales operations, business development, or coordination roles
- Experience working in a fast-paced, quota-driven sales environment
- Demonstrated experience coordinating across cross-functional teams and distributed support resources (including virtual assistants)
- Proficiency in CRM systems (Salesforce preferred) and Google Suite
- Strong attention to detail and ability to drive execution with a sense of urgency
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
What We Do
Anywhere Real Estate Inc. is the parent company of leading real estate brokerage brands and service businesses, offering integrated residential real estate services including franchise, brokerage, relocation, and title and settlement businesses.
