Business Development Specialist

Job Description

As a Business Development Specialist, you will engage in proactive prospecting and lead management to enhance sales growth and nurture customer relationships.

Your role:

• The Business Development Specialist is responsible for proactive inbound and outbound prospecting and lead management. You will help grow sales through creating and maintaining long-term customer satisfaction.

• This role will act as a layer between marketing and sales for all product lines. Responsible for building relationships through marketing activity – inbound inquiries, trade shows, referrals, and outbound cold calling. Additionally, maintaining and updating customer information in Salesforce and fulfilling customer requests for product information.

• This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a growing company while developing key industry skills and expanding professional expertise in sales and customer relationship management. Additionally, it presents potential growth opportunities through collaboration with other teams and departments, enabling you to broaden your career path and gain a holistic understanding of the organization's operations.

You're the right fit if:

• You’ve acquired 1+ years of experience with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint. Experience with CRM tools like Salesforce is advantageous but not required.

• Your skills include a strong phone presence for handling inbound inquiries and making outbound cold calls, combined with effective collaboration with internal stakeholders. You have the ability to employ persuasive selling techniques via telephone to meet customer needs and excel at building relationships with key decision-makers.

• You have a Bachelor's degree in marketing, sales, communications or an equivalent field of study.

• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position

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• You’re an individual with strong customer service skills and possess excellent presentation, planning and organizational skills.

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This is an office role.

Philips Transparency Details

The pay range for this position in Tennessee is $25.42 to $40.67 per hour.

The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.

In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered.  Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more.  Details about our benefits can be found here

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At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case.

Additional Information

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.

Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position.  For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Nashville, TN. USA

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This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates.  Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration.

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace.