Business Development Executive

Description
HUNGRY FOR A CHALLENGE, BUT DONE WORKING FOR COMPANIES THAT STILL DON'T GET CONSULTATIVE SELLING?
If you're tired of outdated, transactional sales tactics like uninformed cold calling and forcing arbitrary close dates, as an Adage Business Development Executive, Staff Augmentation, you will love our strategic, data-driven approach to cultivating the right prospects to achieve long-term impact and financial success.
THE DIFFERENCE WE MAKE
At Adage, we do our part to make businesses run better and faster through technology. We have spent the last 20+ years helping clients transform how they do business through expert digital strategy, user-centered design, and software development.
Our team consists of people who are incredibly smart, inspiringly driven, impressively kind, and always fun. We are routinely recognized as one of Chicago's Best and Brightest Companies to Work For, one of the Best Places to Work in Illinois, and on Crain's Best Places to Work in Chicago.
THE IMPACT YOU'LL HAVE
We have a fantastic team already in place; all we're missing is you: an experienced business development executive excited to take our staff augmentation service to the next level. You'll be focused on developing leads and prospects as we establish our staff augmentation service.
You'll work closely with our CEO, VP of Strategic Growth, marketing team, and delivery staff, using your past experiences to:

• Research accounts to target via events and nurture campaigns with Adage marketing
• Create outreach sequence cadences and messaging in CRM
• Optimize outreach messaging and sequences based on success metrics and testing
• Cultivate leads through to the opportunity stage using a strategic and data-driven approach
• Qualify marketing-captured leads and keep sales-qualified leads warm
• Lead opportunities via proposal creation, pitching, strategic follow-ups, and the first set of contracts
• Manage sold accounts through the onboarding of an Adage account manager at around one year

Other opportunities with this role include quarterly training and career progression planning.
WE'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WITH

• 5+ years of demonstrated goal achievement in a business development role selling staff augmentation
• A strategic mindset and drive for success
• Excellent phone, writing, and listening skills
• Knowledge of business processes and organizational structures
• Interest in web technologies
• An understanding of software dev, IT, infrastructure, and web development is a plus

THE BENEFITS YOU'LL LOVE
As a Business Development Executive at Adage, you'll enjoy a work-life balance with flex schedules, remote-work options, and 20+ days of paid time off annually. Adage offers excellent benefits with 85% employer-paid insurance, profit-sharing bonuses, 401k contributions, and FSA. We have monthly happy hours, quarterly social events, an annual retreat, and a great office environment with a stocked kitchen and pristine gym.
ARE YOU READY?
Apply now to see success driving significant growth via an approach you believe in, surrounded by a team that shares your passion for working smarter.
Adage Technologies is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that represents and respects diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skillsets. All qualified candidates that share Adage's core values are strongly encouraged to apply.