[Hiring] Director of Business Development @Aramark

Role Description

Aramark Nexus is hiring a Director of Business Development to help drive growth across our workforce hospitality business. This highly visible sales leadership role is responsible for identifying, developing, and advancing new business opportunities with clients in infrastructure, energy, technology, industrial, construction, remote workforce, and other complex operating environments.

The Director of Business Development will lead the sales process from prospect identification through strategy, proposal development, client presentation, negotiation, and successful close. This role requires a strong strategic seller who can build relationships with senior decision-makers, understand client needs, develop tailored solutions, and clearly communicate how Aramark Nexus can support large-scale workforce communities.

The right candidate will bring high-end strategic selling experience, strong executive presence, consultative sales capability, customer focus, market awareness, and the ability to influence internal and external stakeholders without formal authority. This is a remote role that requires travel of 50% or more, including overnight travel.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• A minimum of 5 years "high end" strategic selling experience is required
• Prior hospitality services experience and/or operational experience is preferred; sales leadership experience is also preferred
• Knowledge of all Microsoft Office applications and Adobe Acrobat is required
• Ability to think, plan and sell strategically - Possess a consultative, customer centric selling philosophy
• Demonstrate the ability to build alliances and influence key decision makers, both internally and externally, without formal authority
• Managing customer relationships through creative problem solving and customer savvy
• Market awareness in a mature service industry
• Self-starter who requires minimal degree of direct management
• Prior experience in contract management services
• Operational acumen and savvy, including pro forma development
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Efficient organizational skills (time/territory management)
• Poised and sharp presentation skills
• Team selling orientation and leadership skills in a non-reporting environment
• The ability to "close" the deal

Requirements

• Process leadership from contact through strategy, proposal, presentation, and successful conclusion
• Influence and develop team members without formal authority
• Demonstrate personal ownership in prospects and sales process
• Create a competitive differential by identifying and developing the right team
• Manage efforts of proposal development with coordinator
• Develop knowledge base to ensure proposal compliance and guiding the internal approval process (i.e.: contract requirements)
• Research and analyze prospect/client goals and objectives
• Develop insights that provide opportunities to teach the prospect/client innovative approaches to reach their goals and objectives
• Deliver client-focused presentations that address client objectives and generate two-way dialogue
• Demonstrate how ARAMARK’s capabilities meet identified needs and enable success
• Gain collaborative support for customized solutions
• Build results-focused relationships with prospective customers
• Introduce appropriate ARAMARK team members to further enhance sales process
• Develop and lead strategy process with regard to: competitive environment; accounts sales strategy, and territory development strategy
• Build specific sales strategies for prospects: goals, competitive position, client relations and actions to advance sales opportunities
• Align ARAMARK’s selling process to the prospects buying process and maintain momentum to advance the sale
• Help develop customer specific solutions
• Utilize regional and national resources to help "push the envelope" towards market leadership
• Develop and introduce tools and techniques for improved efficiency and effectiveness
• Network proactively using traditional and social media methodologies to build relationships in target accounts
• Proactively manage territory by developing territory plans and building a pipeline of target accounts to meet current and future growth objectives
• Research, identify, qualify, and target market potential
• Develop access strategy to initiate contact
• Provide appropriate market and competitive information for corporate analysis
• Leverage territory opportunities to deliver expected results

Benefits

• This is a sales position with industry-leading financial rewards for top performance
• 50% + travel, including overnight, is required
• Compensation will be a combination of a competitive salary plus commission