BusinessDevelopmentSpecialist

Our mission is to be a trusted workplace for team members to be their whole selves at work. A company that people love and positively impacts the lives of all whom we touch. # **be your best self** At Interstate Batteries, you have the chance to be excellent at work and excellent at life. We know that professional success depends on personal wellbeing. That's why we want to enrich your life with the tools and services you need to succeed in every area of your life. Join us! **Purpose of Job** : Drive growth through business acquisition and development of existing dealers **Job Components** : * Identify, pursue, and secure new business opportunities within the fiscal year that drive incremental units and average PPU in line with operations targets. * Develop, implement, and execute action plans tied to focus 50 accounts that improve the customers’ business, retain them for IB long term, and drive growth for them and the servicing operation. Visits to each of these accounts to include identifying opportunities, aligning on and developing action plans for improvement, providing the dealer training needed to execute, or reviewing results expected. Focus 50 calls occur bi-monthly with each dealer. * Balanced weekly sales plan developed and mapped out by EOB Friday for the following week. The weekly sales plan includes a mix of new business opportunities, focus 50 visits, eroding and lost dealers, new dealer set-ups, new dealer follow-ups, and other stops as requested by the MGM. A sales plan of 10 daily calls is mapped out, and a minimum of 40 activities are logged in Salesforce weekly. Target a 60/40 mix of new business calls and existing account development each week. * Daily prospecting on fresh leads to identify new opportunities to continually fill your pipeline with a target of 10 added weekly. * Daily presentations to active opportunities already qualified to close new business. Prospecting and existing customer calls are planned close to these scheduled appointme