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CDW

Comprehensive IT products and services provider

Business Development Manager

Business Development & PartnershipsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeChicago, IL, USA$67k - $80k

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree or six years of work experience in a technical sales, marketing, or business development role.
  • At least six years of customer-facing or technical sales, marketing, or business development experience in the sales marketplace.
  • Strong customer-facing and analytical skills, with a history of building solid relationships with sellers and leadership contacts.
  • A proven record of identifying new opportunities within existing accounts, building new accounts for the partner, and consistently exceeding sales targets.
  • Ability to influence across all functions of an organization.
  • Demonstrated collaboration behavior, with facilitation and negotiation skills.
  • Critical thinking skills and the ability to find solutions while working independently.
  • Ability to communicate effectively and constructively with executives, management, peers, and coworkers.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects, meet deadlines, facilitate change, and delegate responsibility.
  • Presentation skills.
  • Willingness to travel at least 25%.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate with Sales to optimize and close opportunities, drive enablement and training on key partner solutions, define target markets and accounts, assess current relationships, execute growth strategies, build a long-term pipeline, and forecast against monthly sales targets.
  • Develop relationships with sales professionals and leaders internally at CDW and externally at the partner to drive collaboration and results between both organizations.
  • Partner with Sales and multiple customer stakeholders—including executives, program leads, project leads, technical experts, and procurement—to influence the final requirements of target opportunities.
  • Serve as the subject matter expert for customer visits and presentations, customer conference calls, and webinars, and participate in all aspects of large transaction sales cycles.
  • Coordinate with appropriate resources to execute legal and financial agreements, such as nondisclosure agreements and teaming agreements, before request for proposal release.
  • Identify trends in customer purchasing patterns and partner technology advancements to enact plans that help sales teams capture a larger share of business.
  • Articulate the partner value proposition to partners and customers.
  • Align with CDW marketing leaders and internal product portfolio management stakeholders to create a go-to-market plan supporting original equipment manufacturer partner strategies and regional events.

About the Company

CDW

Comprehensive IT products and services provider

CDW provides technology products and services to businesses of all sizes. It sells hardware (computers, servers, networking equipment), software, and cloud services, and also offers consulting, configuration, and deployment support to optimize IT systems. The company stands out with one of the industry's largest inventories, enabling fast shipping and quick responses, plus custom configurations and integrated, vendor-backed solutions from partners like Apple, Lenovo, and Tripp Lite. Its business model combines direct product sales with consulting and managed services. CDW’s goal is to help organizations build and maintain efficient, reliable technology infrastructures that meet their specific needs.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Vernon Hills, IL
Founded
1984

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