Business Development Specialist

Role Overview

As a Business Development Specialist, you’ll build relationships with design firms, architects, and planners to get our products specified and turn early conversations into qualified opportunities. You’ll own NPEI’s relationships with design firms and specifiers, and help them plan with our manufacturers’ products in mind. This role has no sales quota, and you’ll be measured on the relationships, specifications, and pipeline you build.

What You Will Do

You’ll map the market, build designer relationships, get our products specified, find projects early, partner with Sales, open new markets, lead education programs, create content, and show up in the community.

Why It Might Be a Fit

We’re looking for someone with experience in sales, business development, or account-based outreach, ideally in B2B, design, or public-sector settings. You should be credible, outgoing, organized, and curious, with excellent communication and presentation skills.

Requirements

• 1–4 years in sales, business development, or account-based outreach
• Experience with a manufacturer or manufacturer’s rep firm is a strong plus
• Familiarity with parks, playgrounds, landscape architecture, or public-sector procurement is preferred but not required
• Credible, outgoing, organized, and curious
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Strong emotional intelligence
• Ability to work independently while partnering closely with the sales team
• A strategic thinker who proposes and follows through on new ways to engage design professionals
• Proficient with Salesforce or similar CRM experience
• Proficient with Microsoft Office
• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, or a related field, or equivalent experience

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• 401k with 4% employer matching
• Car allowance
• Company phone and laptop
• Reimbursed travel expenses