Business Development Manager
Remote
Full Time
Manager/Supervisor
Business Development Manager
Location: [DC METRO / Remote]
Department: Growth Team
Reports To: CMO or SVP of Growth
Seniority Level: ManagerRole Overview
The Business Development Manager is a key member of the agency’s Growth (New Business) team, supporting all aspects of the proposal and pitch process to help drive new opportunities and fuel agency growth. This role is essential to the continued success of the Growth team and the agency overall.
As one of the Growth Team’s centralized points of contact, you ensure proposals, presentations, and collateral are polished, accurate, and ready to deliver—on time and on brand. You help bring structure and momentum to the new business process by coordinating inputs across internal teams and keeping workstreams moving forward.
Because the role touches every stage of New Business, you are comfortable with project management under minimal supervision, maintaining awareness of business implications, and operating with a strong sense of urgency. You anticipate needs, identify next steps, and provide reliable follow-through on pitches, meetings, and related communications to ensure nothing slips. Experience using AI tools in the new business process is also important.
Since much of the new business is storytelling, writing skills are essential. The ability to pull together content, edit, and write a consistent narrative is of great value.
You are self-motivated, proactive, collaborative, and thrive in an entrepreneurial environment. You build alignment across teams, bridge gaps between stakeholders, and promote clear, open communication. You’re known for getting things done, keeping the right people informed, and ensuring stakeholders are engaged and bought in. You’re energized by the opportunity to support work across a range of industries and specialty capabilities.
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Skills
Location: [DC METRO / Remote]
Department: Growth Team
Reports To: CMO or SVP of Growth
Seniority Level: Manager
The Business Development Manager is a key member of the agency’s Growth (New Business) team, supporting all aspects of the proposal and pitch process to help drive new opportunities and fuel agency growth. This role is essential to the continued success of the Growth team and the agency overall.
As one of the Growth Team’s centralized points of contact, you ensure proposals, presentations, and collateral are polished, accurate, and ready to deliver—on time and on brand. You help bring structure and momentum to the new business process by coordinating inputs across internal teams and keeping workstreams moving forward.
Because the role touches every stage of New Business, you are comfortable with project management under minimal supervision, maintaining awareness of business implications, and operating with a strong sense of urgency. You anticipate needs, identify next steps, and provide reliable follow-through on pitches, meetings, and related communications to ensure nothing slips. Experience using AI tools in the new business process is also important.
Since much of the new business is storytelling, writing skills are essential. The ability to pull together content, edit, and write a consistent narrative is of great value.
You are self-motivated, proactive, collaborative, and thrive in an entrepreneurial environment. You build alignment across teams, bridge gaps between stakeholders, and promote clear, open communication. You’re known for getting things done, keeping the right people informed, and ensuring stakeholders are engaged and bought in. You’re energized by the opportunity to support work across a range of industries and specialty capabilities.
Skills
- Great with time management
- Can “manage up” to Director, VP, SVP, and C-Level
- Relentless in your quest for excellence
- Creative, proactive, productive, and deadline-driven
- Highly competitive with a “drive to win the business.”
- Gret team player ready to jump in where needed
- Passionate about pitches and strategy
- Able to speak up confidently and with authority
- Able to take feedback and adapt in a fast-paced environment
- Able to remain calm and focused under pressure
- Able to inspire and motivate others
- Able to keep morale high while keeping your team on task
- Create and maintain proposal/pitch schedules and checklists
- Manage pitch workflows, ensuring tasks are completed on time
- Coordinate the development and production of client presentations. This may include editing presentations, liaising with designers, managing changes from the cross-functional team and designers, ensuring production schedules are adhered to and the pitch calendar is on track
- Request, gather, research, and analyze prospect intelligence data
- Pulls necessary information for RFPs/RFIs while understanding the material and actioning updates as necessary
- Oversees any necessary logistical needs related to the pitches, working with the leadership as needed, and is committed to following and ideating around best practices
- Supports the CMO and Chief Growth Officers on specific pitches and initiatives
- Bachelor's degree
- Knowledge of marketing, advertising or media field
- 2-4+ years project management experience
- Familiarity with marketing/communication jargon and an “eye” for good layout and design
- Must have extensive knowledge in all Microsoft Office applications, especially PowerPoint
- Knowledge of Photoshop, InDesign is a plus
- Excellent written communications skills
- Ability to handle multiple tasks, meet tight deadlines, and be flexible with work schedule
- Displays sound business judgment internally
- Strong ability to manage crisis or red-flag situations
- Ability to work well in a team environment
- Strong tendency to take initiative
- Serves as the agency’s ambassador and demonstrates grace in challenging internal/external scenarios
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