Business Development Manager

The person in this position would be responsible for the overall Business Development for online software application development, and report directly to the CTO.  One of the UK's fastest growing social media software companies seek a Business Development Manager to develop and maximise strong sales growth. The applicant should have worked in sales and business development for at least 3 years, and be able to demonstrate a knowledge of web site trends.  Experience in managing interactive projects is a plus. There will also be some element of account management, to build upon an existing blue-chip client base. 

You’ll need to act as a link between new clients and the Head of development + Account Managers. Our development teams have proven experience, skills and will ensure that the day-to-day running of site builds go smoothly. You will be responsible for getting leads and attending client introduction and requirement gathering meetings. Successful client pitch work needs to be presented back to the team and depending on the size of the project a mix of resource e.g. project managers and account managers will be assigned to liaise with the client on a day-to-day basis so you are free to get more new business. You will need to keep senior management informed regularly with progress on client relations.

Project budgeting guidance will be given and existing proposal documentation is available for reference.

A training programme will be in place and to succeed, you will be a well-presented individual and have the tenacity towards generating new business sales, with a strong desire to succeed.

Basic salary between 30k-35k and an OTE of 50k-55k, and there is great potential to earn more! If you have the desire to work for a start-up company with already proven technology with blue-chip clients, fantastic press recognition, excellent commission structure  please get in contact.
 

Primary

• Presentation of solutions to potential clients
• Developing client pitch proposals and life-cycle strategy plans
• Ongoing market research
• Further development of product vision and strategy
• Requirements gathering from client requirements
• Delivering pricing proposals / closing deals that are profitable
• To provide sales forecasts of revenue to senior management
• Provide marketing with content to create external message and product positioning including product sheets, presentations, product demos, sales support tools and more
• Further gathering and analysis of information on competing products in the marketplace. Create a process for systematically and consistently gathering competitive intelligence
• Work with technology and marketing to brainstorm on product specifications, position, release and new products
• You will need to be a pro-active sales person by nature who is not afraid of making cold calls and also follow up on web site leads, as well as being handed a number of accounts to service.
• Strong business skills

Secondary

• Experience with Internet service / platform companies
• Strong hands on project management, oral and written communications, excellent resource management, and analytical skills, as well as a proven track record in technology requirements and specification definition and product development.
• Proven ability to communicate with different functions of the organisation and different levels of staff and external partners
• Passionate about internet, digital, advertising, social media

The Company:

We are a rapidly expanding global service provider of Internet TV, corporate social networking platforms and video advertising technologies. Leveraging technology across three complementary platforms to bring the best solutions and effectively drive the future growth of our clients’ business. We have a proven track record with technology currently in use by blue-chip clients.
Viewmy.tv Ltd. has three main platforms:

www.viewmy.tv - consumer social internet TV aggregation service
Our site provides a user-friendly interface through which you can access thousands of free television channels, such as terrestrial channels and those provided by producers, independent studios and broadcasters. This is a live and free streaming Internet TV and social networking service. 2m visitors a year, 10m channel hits a year. Access to 2000+ live TV channels in 100+ countries. We’ve revolutionised the way TV is distributed and consumed with thousands of channels accessible through www.viewmy.tv and supporting technology including Windows desktop app, Vista Gadget, Mac Widget, Google Gadget, FaceBook app, Mobile apps, Consumer Hardware, Blogger posts, Twitter comments, Tversity, PSP, Wii, Xbox...

brandstation - corporate social networks
Our brandstation platform is really a collaboration platform for internal corporate communications or external marketing. We’ve already produced versions for blue-chip clients.

Core ready built features include blogs, user personalisation, video management, team creation, friend invites, event calendar alerts, activity notifications, forums, tag cloud, bookmark and rss feed sharing. We also do bespoke development for interoperability with other systems. There’s further information about our social network platform on:
www.brandstation.tv

VidAds  - online social video advertising
Our Video Advertising Platform allows advertisers to manage campaigns, publishers to sell ad space and agencies to organise their own closed private video advertising marketplace. We have applied Web 2.0 social networking paradigms for users on the system to organise the process of finding potential trading partners. Advertisers and publishers can cluster in groups based around events or self determined criteria and trade at that level. Using high-performance scalable Ad servers from data centres around the globe, it ensures that adverts appear on publisher’s websites without any glitches or delays. (Currently this platform is in private beta testing, www.vidads.tv.)

We’re about continuous product innovation in Internet TV, video distribution, online advertising and corporate social networks. We provide bespoke technology products & services that empower our consumers, clients, agencies, publishers and advertisers.

Viewmy.tv Ltd. is one of the few companies which combine a consumer Internet TV aggregation service (www.viewmy.tv), client driven social networking platform (www.brandstation.tv) and an online video advertising marketplace (www.vidads.tv). These three business areas combined offer a powerful solution of proven technology, client solutions and advertising expertise.

Our team is experienced and committed with diverse and complementary core capabilities in technology, business development, marketing & sales, project management, research and finance. We’re a young start-up based in West London. Come and join us.