Business Development Specialist

City Wide Facility Solutions is actively seeking a Business Development Specialist for our Franchise location in Northwest Ohio.

Do you have experience in a lead generation or social media role? Do you enjoy setting up potential leads for sales? Are you looking for opportunity to make commission AND enjoy a competitive base? If you answered YES, we would like to hear from YOU!

City Wide, the nation’s leading management company in the building maintenance industry, provides solutions to a wide range of issues clients face at their facilities. In this position, you will serve the City Wide Facility Solutions - Northwest Ohio team, one of more than 80 markets covered across the United States and Canada. Our mission at City Wide is to create a ripple effect by positively impacting the people and communities we serve.

Requirements

The primary responsibility of the Business Development Specialist is to make B2B outbound sales calls to prospective clients (offering janitorial and non-janitorial services), qualify prospects, and schedule appointments for our sales team.

Essential functions:

• Find and research businesses that would benefit from City Wide's services.
• Make a combination of 50-100 of sales calls and e-mails per day to prospective clients.
• Schedule qualified appointments for City Wide’s outside sales team.
• Manage and update the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) database (Microsoft Dynamics), including – scheduled calls, updated client records, notes from each call, and appointments set.
• Prepare accurate reports on a daily, weekly or monthly basis as defined by management.
• Achieve or exceed monthly activity and lead generation metrics to achieve revenue targets as set by management
• Send all City Wide information requested by prospects along with thank you notes and follow-up letters whenever appropriate.
• Manage monthly email campaigns using our platform.
• Manage and engage social media campaigns using our platform.
• Other duties as necessary.
• Compensation based upon experience.
• Training program and potential career progression into outside sales.

Requirement:

• High school diploma, college degree preferred but not necessary.
• 1-2 years B2B outbound call center or equivalent experience prospecting and/or cold calling highly desirable.
• Highly organized, able to follow a systematic method and sales process.
• Customer service-oriented and highly effective communication skills.
• Detailed oriented and must be able to work independently.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.).
• Prior experience using CRM systems