Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SLAPS is an independent creative studio serving sport, culture, lifestyle, and entertainment brands through platforms, campaigns, content, partnerships, and culturally relevant storytelling. The Business Development Manager will identify high-potential prospects, conduct thoughtful outreach, manage the new-business pipeline, and secure qualified meetings for agency leadership. The role can grow into new-business strategy, client relationship management, pitch development, and leading client conversations.
Responsibilities
- Research and identify high-potential brands, categories, and organizations that are a strong fit for SLAPS
- Build prospect lists across priority sectors such as sport, apparel, footwear, lifestyle, entertainment, consumer technology, hospitality, automotive, and culture
- Identify the relevant decision-makers within target organizations, including marketing, brand, creative, partnerships, social, content, and innovation leaders
- Develop personalized outreach across email, LinkedIn, phone, events, referrals, and other appropriate channels
- Secure qualified introductory meetings for SLAPS leadership on a consistent monthly basis
- Build, manage, and maintain an organized pipeline of prospects, contacts, conversations, opportunities, and next steps
- Use a CRM or pipeline-management system to keep outreach activity, meeting status, and opportunity notes current
- Research prospective clients’ business objectives, campaigns, cultural positioning, leadership changes, launches, partnerships, and agency relationships before outreach
- Stay informed about strong branding, advertising, content, partnership, and cultural marketing work across relevant industries
- Collaborate with SLAPS leadership to refine ideal-client profiles, outreach messaging, target sectors, and new-business priorities
- Help prepare concise background materials and opportunity briefs ahead of client meetings
- Track performance against outreach, meeting, pipeline, and opportunity goals, and share regular updates with leadership
- Represent SLAPS with curiosity, polish, persistence, and strong judgment in every external interaction
Skills
- • You have 2–4 years of experience in business development, sales development, partnerships, or agency new business role
- • You are naturally proactive and comfortable initiating conversations with senior people
- • You are highly organized, detail-oriented, and disciplined about follow-up
- • You understand how to research companies, identify decision-makers, build prospect lists, and manage a pipeline
- • You know how to write concise, intelligent outreach that earns a response
- • You are commercially minded but culturally fluent; you understand that brand relationships are built through relevance, credibility, and timing
- • You have a genuine interest in branding, advertising, creative work, sport, entertainment, lifestyle, fashion, culture, or consumer brands
- • You can recognize strong brand and advertising work and understand why certain campaigns, partnerships, or creative platforms resonate
- • You are comfortable working with CRM systems, LinkedIn, email outreach tools, research platforms, and spreadsheets
- • You are resilient and motivated by goals, but you prioritize quality and judgment over empty volume
- • You communicate clearly, professionally, and confidently in writing and in conversation
- • You are excited by the opportunity to learn directly from agency leadership and grow into a larger client-development and pitch-facing role
Benefits
- Opportunity to grow beyond meeting-setting by contributing to new-business strategy, supporting pitches, developing client relationships, and eventually leading introductory meetings and pitches independently.
- Opportunity to learn directly from agency leadership and grow into a larger client-development and pitch-facing role.
- Opportunity to take on greater responsibility across new-business strategy, relationship management, pitch development, and eventually leading client conversations and pitches.
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