Business Development Manager

Business Development Manager

The Business Development Manager (BDM) - India Delivery is a pivotal strategic sales and market leader responsible for driving new business within various services practices to be delivered from our Delivery Centers in India. The BDM will focus on growth strategy within dedicated verticals in the US and Canada, collaborating with delivery partners to uncover, design, and deliver engineering services from our four delivery centers in India. The BDM will cultivate relationships with current clients to expand existing business and partner with internal Global Practice leaders to ensure a consistent and effective approach for all prospective customers. Success in this role requires a goal-oriented "hunter" who has demonstrated proven success with engineering services and is accountable for revenue generation and growth of new business on large, national accounts.

Responsibilities

• Identify new engineering services opportunities within target accounts aligned to strategic focus.
• Provide subject-matter expertise by understanding the competitive landscape in engineering for various industries including aerospace & defense, transportation, consumer & industrial, and utilities & construction.
• Utilize consultative selling techniques to drive market/customer share by increasing deal size and moving deals up the services/consulting value chain.
• Achieve growth goals by expanding current account relationships and winning new accounts.
• Demonstrate strong business acumen to navigate sales (new and expansions), RFXs, presentations, contracts, negotiations, internal and external QBRs, communications, technology, reporting, and leading by influence.
• Consistently interface with customers to build relationships with executive sponsors and key decision-makers.
• Report and effectively manage account plans and perform root cause analysis to address gaps between performance or evolving account strategy as necessary.
• Provide subject matter expertise in vertical industry to target and win new business in the assigned account(s) as well as possibly supporting other similar account expansion.
• Enlist Corporate functions (Legal, Marketing, Finance, Professional Development, Human Resources, etc.) to ensure appropriate functioning in large account set-up including contractual requirements, processes, systems, regulatory requirements, etc.
• Build and maintain strong alliance with Delivery Operations to address and provide feedback and solutions to all continuous business process improvement.
• Demonstrate core leadership skills including relationship building, organizational agility, command skills, and institutional stretch assignments.

Essential Skills

• Minimum 5 years of sales/business development experience involving identifying, initiating, cultivating, and managing customer portfolio (Fortune 100/500).
• Proven track record and ability to commit to an annual goal of more than $5M in delivered net new revenue from India-centric solutions.
• Minimum 5 years' sales experience offering technical services with proven success identifying and developing outsourced technical projects and/or talent-based service opportunities.
• Demonstrated experience selling engineering solutions required; experience offering systems and software engineering solutions desired.
• Ability to collaborate with internal partners and work with subject-matter-experts to drive prospective deals to a close.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to present to executive stakeholders throughout internal and external client organizations.
• Ability to diagnose customer goals and pain-points and align to solution offerings and capabilities.
• Ability to utilize sales/CRM systems and document client intelligence information; prior experience utilizing Salesforce preferred.
• Proven ability to effectively align customer goals with company solution offerings and capabilities.
• Ability to travel regionally to customers and/or internal meetings as required, up to 50%.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Sales
• Business development
• Cold calling
• Account management
• Technical sales

Work Environment

The role involves working closely with delivery partners and clients from multiple industries. The position requires regional travel up to 50%, and proficiency in using sales/CRM systems, particularly Salesforce, is preferred.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $140000.00 - $160000.00/yr.

Medical and dental insurance plans Health Savings Account Life and disability insurance 401(k) match, profit sharing and 529 plan Paid holidays and 20 days of paid time off each year for new employees Consumer discounts Flexible spending accounts and employee assistance programs

Workplace Type

This is a fully remote position.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Oct 7, 2025.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing due to a disability, please email actALENTaccommodation@actalentservices.com for other accommodation options.