Flexport
Senior Business Development Manager, Control Tower
Chicago, Illinois, United States · Senior
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About the role
- This role will sit in Chicago, with the flexibility to travel to customers across the territory when it matters (up to 25% travel).
- This is a consultative, value-based sell with a longer cycle than a typical transactional deal.
Responsibilities
- We're hiring a Senior Business Development Manager, Control Tower to drive pipeline, award conversion, and revenue growth for Flexport's Control Tower business across our Central region.
- Solutioning around the customer's supply chain - understanding their current workflows, systems, and staffing well enough to design the right order management, booking management, buyer's consolidation, or supply chain optimization fit.
- Control Tower is one of Flexport's fastest-growing product lines, and this role owns a region full of the manufacturers, retailers, and distributors that need a better way to manage bookings, consolidate orders, and run their supply chain.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
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Nice to have
- Owning Central region growth - driving customer count, Control Tower volume, and profitability across your sales regions.
- Partnering with Account Executives - joining customer calls, coaching deal strategy, and serving as the Control Tower expert throughout the sales cycle.
- Pricing to win, and to protect margin - leading commercial strategy on Control Tower deals so the business we close is profitable for Flexport, not just fast to sign.
- Demoing the technology - showing AEs and prospects how Control Tower works and why it's differentiated from point solutions and manual processes.
- Converting awards into attainment - staying engaged after the deal closes so awarded volume actually ships, protecting attainment against the original award.
- 6+ years of quota-carrying sales or business development related experience, ideally in supply chain, logistics, or supply chain software.
- Consultative selling experience - comfortable running a longer, value-based sales cycle rather than a transactional one.
- ROI and business case fluency - able to turn a customer's current-state costs and workflows into a quantified savings story.
Compensation
- The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire base salary for the position in the posting's respective region.
- $147,840 - $184,800 USD
Benefits
- Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at Flexport, which also includes bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefit offerings such as medical, dental, and flexible time off.
- The US base salary range for this position (this does not include bonus, equity and benefits):
- Within the range displayed, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and / or training.
Company info
- About Flexport: At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward.
- That's why it's our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it.
- Strong presence with both AEs and customers - you'll coach sales teams internally and pitch technology directly to prospects and executives.
- You'll set the playbook for how Flexport wins Control Tower business across the Central regions - working side by side with AEs to turn pipeline into awards, and awards into customers who stick around and grow.
- Flexport's Control Tower gives customers one system to manage order management, booking management, buyer's consolidation, and supply chain optimization.
- At Flexport, our ability to fulfill our mission of making global commerce easy and accessible relies on having a diverse, dedicated and engaged workforce.
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity
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