Business Development Consultant
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Business Development
2500Q9
Business Development Consultant
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Business Development
2500Q9
Working at Lockton
At Lockton, we’re passionate about helping our people achieve their ultimate potential. Our people are curious, action-oriented and always striving to make ourselves and those around us better. We’re active listeners working to ensure understanding and problem solvers developing innovative solutions. If you can see yourself delivering excellent service to clients, giving back to our communities and being a part of our caring culture, you belong here.
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Your Responsibilities
New Business Development & Prospecting Support
- Conduct prospect research to identify key decision-makers and business opportunities.
- Develop and prepare prospecting cadences aligned with sales strategies.
- Manage all forms of outreach, including email, phone, LinkedIn, and direct mail campaigns.
- Track, analyze, and report on prospecting performance and key metrics.
- Maintain and update CRM and sales tracking systems with accurate data.
Marketing & Prospecting Strategy Development
- Assist in developing marketing strategies for prospecting, including:
- Events & webinars
- Contact marketing campaigns
- Email and call campaigns
- Collaborate with leadership to create innovative engagement strategies for prospects.
- Assist in crafting targeted messaging and outreach materials.
Client Retention & Account Management Support
- Provide support to client services teams in managing existing accounts.
- Assist in creating and managing client retention processes.
- Track and report on key client success and retention metrics.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Open-minded, agile, and very comfortable working in a team environment
- Creative thinker
- Process-orientated and willing to perform analytical work for extended periods of time
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple tasks.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with CRM systems, sales tracking, or prospecting tools (preferred).
- Ability to analyze data and provide insights on outreach effectiveness.
- Strategic thinker with a proactive approach to business development.
- Comfortable with prospect outreach, including email, calls, and LinkedIn engagement.
- Supports overall new-business creation and planning
- Independently drives new business opportunities by gathering of intelligence on current and potential Clients, analyzing market trend and industry segments, evaluating impact to Lockton, and developing market strategy, and implementing marketing plan
- Identifies trends and developments in competitive environments and presents findings to stakeholders
- Tracks and manages benchmarks to measure degree of success in developing new business
- Supports maintaining accurate record system of past and potential opportunities, ensuring accurate and timely communication of opportunity status to appropriate stakeholders
- Provides support of local initiatives through new idea generation and process modification
- Ensures initiatives are compliant with internal company standards, as well as complaint within the external regulation environment
- Assists with organizational strategic planning process, including analyzing opportunities within plan, implementing the plan, and continuously monitoring the plan
- Maintains and updates standardized report language and templates on a frequent and ongoing basis
- Performs other responsibilities and duties as needed
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Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration or related field and/or years of experience equivalent
- 1-2 years of business development experience preferred
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint)
- Strong verbal and interpersonal communication skills required
- Understands industry trends and governmental regulations
- Ability to complete continuing education requirements as needed
- Ability to attend company, department, and team meetings as required, including industry training sessions
- Ability to comply with all company policies and procedures, proactively protecting confidentiality of client and company information
- Ability to efficiently organize work and manage time in order to meet deadlines
- Ability to travel by automobile and aircraft
- Ability to use office equipment such as a computer, keyboard, calculator, photocopier, and facsimile machine
- Ability to work on a computer for a prolonged amount of time
- Ability to work outside of normal business hours as needed
- Legally able to work in the United States
Equal Opportunity Statement
Lockton Companies is proud to provide everyone an equal opportunity to grow and advance. We are committed to an inclusive culture and environment where our people, clients and communities are treated with respect and dignity.
At Lockton, supporting diversity, equity and inclusion is ingrained in our values, and we believe that we are at our best when we fully embrace everyone. We strive to cultivate a caring culture that learns from, celebrates and thrives because of our breadth of differences. As such, we recognize that recruiting, developing and retaining people with diverse backgrounds and experiences is vital and enabling our people to thrive personally and professionally is critical to our long-term success.
About Lockton
Lockton is the largest privately held independent insurance brokerage in the world. Since 1966, our independence has allowed us to serve our clients, take care of our people and give back to our communities. As such, our 12,500+ Associates doing business in over 140 countries are empowered to do what’s right every day.
At Lockton, we believe in the power of all people. You belong at Lockton.
How We Will Support You
At Lockton, we empower you to be true to yourself in all that you do. Your success is our success, and we provide opportunities to help you grow and create a rewarding career path, however you envision it.
We are ready to meet you where you are today, and as your needs change over time. In addition to industry-leading health insurance, we offer additional options to support your overall health and wellbeing.
No Agencies Please
Any Employment Agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of Lockton Companies, Inc. Lockton Companies will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting Employment Agency, person or entity. Employment Agencies, who have fee Agreements with Lockton Companies must submit applicants to the designated Lockton Companies Employment Coordinator to be eligible for placement fees.
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