Are you an ambitious and energetic Business Development Manager, who can help us expand our clientele? At Firmnav we are looking for a person to be the front of the company, who contains the dedication to apply an effective sales strategy.
Who Is Firmnav and What Do We Do?
Firmnav is a fast-growing AI and data company headquartered in the heart of Copenhagen. We are working with leading firms within Private Equity, Investment Banking, and corporates within sales and analytics. We are empowering our customers with the next-generation company and market intelligence through our SaaS-based platform as well as our custom-built solutions. On our journey to become the leading AI provider for company and market analytics, we have Trifork Group as well as other investment firms to fuel our growth.
What is the role of a Business Development Manager?
As our new Business Development Manager, you will be working for the Nordic market, through our lovely office headquartered in Copenhagen. Your primary focus will be to ensure the continued growth of Firmnav by leading and driving Business Development. Firmnav by generating new sales opportunities through various prospecting and account penetration strategies. In this role, you will be the direct link between sales and business units. You will be an integral part of the management team and will be working side on side with the founding team as well.
Your main responsibilities, but not limited to, are the following:
Provide regional/country insights and needs for strategic planning
Presales research
Initiate contact and establish relations with customers/leads
Strategize on client dialogue and contact
Close collaboration with both product and support teams to ensure feature requests and other important feedback is handled.
Ensure and optimize customer success and retention
Establish relations with potential clients
Identify, establish, and initiate contact with relevant customers/leads
Build, manage, and maintain a robust sales pipeline of prospects
What does it take to succeed in the role of a Business Development Manager?
For you to be successful in this position, we expect you to have a couple of years of experience within sales, strategic marketing, and business development, advantageously within a SaaS company. You contain a passion for clients and contain a profound understanding of how to manage them. On a more personal note, you are an extrovert, energetic and positive person with an ambitious mindset looking to excel and learn. Most importantly, you must possess emotional intelligence and an entrepreneurial mindset. In this start-up environment, the opportunities are endless.
In addition, we expect the following:
A degree within business, marketing, or similar.
3-5 years of sales experience, preferably within a SaaS company
Strong flair for Sales and Business Development
Highly driven, never settles, and can overcome rejection
Always strives to be the best and win
More of a hunter than a farmer in sales (outbound experience strongly preferred)
Be able to work independently and take full ownership
Winning attitude and whatever-if-takes mentality - you must understand that there are easy days and hard days and be able to get through them both
Excellent English fluency
What Is It Like Working at Firmnav?
We desire to be a non-hierarchical, purpose-driven startup. At Firmnav, we have a self-driven, high-performance culture that encourages teamwork and rewards success. You become part of the Firmnav family, working at the forefront of disruptive innovation, where you get to take part in shaping the future with innovative solutions.
Our work environment is characterized by being dynamic and fast-paced with no formal organizational hierarchy.
In addition, our work environment can also be described as:
An open-minded, collaborative culture, and informal work environment where you get a great amount of responsibility and autonomy. Hence, you will play a vital role in shaping the product, innovation, and company culture.
Learning and development opportunities - we are growing rapidly, hence you will be given opportunities to learn, have large responsibilities, etc.
Flexible working hours to accommodate and the option to work remote
Fun and social events & activities such as a running club, fredagsbar, gocart, etc.
What is the recruitment process and timeline?
We recruit on an ongoing basis.
This job comes with several perks and benefits
Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.
Get your caffeine fix to get you started and keep you going.
Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.
Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.
Peckish after lunch? We got your back with soft drinks, treats and fruit.
Friday is something special, let's enjoy a beer together.