DESCRIPTION SUMMARY:
Silicon Dragon is a global innovation and development consulting firm serving the healthcare, packaging, consumer, and commercial/industrial markets. Our secret ingredient for success is our people. We hire talented individuals with a passion for delivering results that know how to design, develop, and deliver products that are better than anything on the market today. We build multidisciplinary teams of product strategists, researchers, designers, human factors specialists, engineers, quality, and manufacturing experts who thrive on solving our clients’ most complex challenges for bringing successful products to market.
Join our award-winning team if you want to sharpen your skills on a variety of projects: we offer a dynamic, fast-paced work environment with plenty of growth opportunities, excellent compensation, and benefits.
We are looking for a talented, experienced, and highly motivated business development professional to join our Sunnyvale team. This role will report to the COO and the president. As part of the management team, you will proactively contribute to the strategic direction of Silicon Dragon, growing new and existing clients, and the quality of the firm’s services and deliverables. You will be responsible for ensuring sustained business growth of the firm through continual sale as well as identification and qualification of new potential customers. This individual will provide strategic planning and relationship management for ongoing client program efforts.
This is a highly visible and dynamic position whose focus will be on Radius site-specific and global organizational initiatives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and administer the business development function, including the targeting, prospecting, forecasting, tracking, and strategic response to customer RFP’s to support the closure of business and sustained customer satisfaction
- Maintain an aggressive approach to the generation of high-level BD leads and business opportunities
- Represent business development function in internal deliberation
- Participate in the formulation of corporate strategies, goals, and objectives
- Promote business, digital, design, and financial service excellence to secure meaningful business opportunities for competitive advantages for the company and its clients
- Provide direction and product development leadership to both clients and staff in all appropriate operational and program business consulting and product development activities
- Establish a focused and committed attitude towards identifying and managing the risk aspects in all BD efforts to support our company goal of building a reputation for practical and reliable real-world consulting solutions
- General account management and support of ongoing product development programs, including client liaison and communication, strategic consultation, timeline management, identification and timely response to all program scope changes, risk management assessment, and the quality of the deliverable and the effective delivery and presentation of the work
Educational Background:
- Bachelor’s degree in related field. MBA preferred.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS REQUIRED
This role requires an individual who demonstrates flexibility in the consulting subject matter in which he or she needs to operate and yet has a polished, not over-bearing, delivery style. More specifically, the candidate will have the following skills:
- Advanced consultative selling skills and experience in selling integrated solutions and services
- Extensive knowledge of the product development process
- Firm understanding of consumer needs, branding, technology, and manufacturing methods
- Identification of key potential customers who value the Silicon Dragon business proposition
- Ability to recognize, make contact, and develop strategic relationships with key decision-making management personnel as relates to outsourcing product development programs
- Strategic provision of client needs and company services to the client by building a long-term, open, trusting and mutually beneficial relationship
- Ensuring that all communication with the client is of the highest quality
- People, client, and third-party management skills
- Strong leadership qualities, collaborative work ethic, and a great sense of humor
GOALS
Short-term goals:
- Establish a personal reputation for polished proactive management and relentless follow through on all communications and documents
- Achieve maximum amount of new business opportunities (per established goals) from new relationships. This is the priority and focus of the role
- Establish proactive management role and ownership of business development activities, including required planning, administration, and documentation
- Weekly communication of objectives and business development activities.
- Provide focused account/program management and support to key client efforts
- Establish understanding and definition of full range of Silicon Dragon, business, IoT, Design, , and Financial services
- Effectively participate, learn, and master in selling and communicating Silicon Dragon core value proposition
Long-term goals:
- Achieve maximum amount of new business opportunities.
- Continue to work with Silicon Dragon management throughout to understand integrated capabilities and offerings and to strategize relationship developments for improved offering and business development
- Ensure the continued revenue growth and ongoing qualification of new customers, while maximizing the value and experience for all Silicon Dragon customers
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Silicon Dragon is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.