The Business Development Associate is responsible for lead generation and marketing campaign execution to support sales associates, maintain prospect details in Salesforce, and facilitate executive appointments.
Job Title: Business Development Associate
Purpose: Lead generation for Hackett sales associates
Responsibilities
- Marketing campaign execution
- Assist with development of campaign approach (hardcopy mailings, e-mail, pre-calls, post calls, etc.)
- Generate webcast and event attendance
- Obtain executive appointments for sales associates
- Post-event follow up to generate sales conference calls or face-to-face meetings
- Logging and tracking lead/appointment activity
- Maintaining prospect details in Salesforce.com (CRM)
- Work closely with Product Marketing Management to schedule timing of follow-up activities and campaign execution
Required Skills
- Familiarity with CRM tools (Salesforce preferred)
- Experience with Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, Powerpoint, Access)
- Good listening and communication skills
- Broad understanding of questioning techniques
- Ability to multi-task
- Work well in a team environment
- Proven ability to get access to senior executives
- Highly organized
- Self motivated
Work location is flexible if approved by the Company except that position may not be performed remotely from Colorado.
Answerthink, a division of The Hackett Group, is a certified SAP Platinum Partner that develops and offers qualified SAP® Business All-in-One solutions, as well as SAP application management services, training, support, analytics, mobility, cloud offerings and SAP HANA® platform. By leveraging The Hackett Group’s leading repository of enterprise best practices, strategies and metrics, Answerthink helps customers improve performance and maximize returns on investments in SAP software.
Please visit our website at
www.answerthink.com to find out more about our firm.
The Hackett Group Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
Chicago, United States
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