Business Development Manager

Description:

The Business Development Manager – North America is responsible for accelerating growth within Pall Corporation’s Food & Beverage business by acquiring new customers and recovering previously lost or inactive accounts across the United States and Canada. This individual contributor role focuses on identifying untapped market opportunities, developing new customer relationships, converting competitive business, and establishing sustainable recurring revenue streams.

This position reports to the Director of Sales, North America – Food & Beverage and is part of the North America Food & Beverage Sales team, located in the continental US and working remotely to cover the United States and Canada.

In This Role, You Will Have The Opportunity To
 

• Identify, prioritize, and pursue prospective customers with no existing purchasing relationship with Pall, as well as previously lost or long-inactive accounts, to expand the North America customer base.
• Develop and execute targeted customer acquisition and win-back strategies, including prospecting, relationship development, competitive assessments, and opportunity qualification.
• Engage engineering, operations, procurement, and other customer decision-makers to identify filtration and separation needs and develop compelling technical and commercial solutions.
• Lead new business opportunities from initial engagement through technical evaluations, competitive conversions, commercial negotiations, and initial purchase orders, collaborating with regional sales teams and technical specialists to ensure successful customer transition and ongoing account development.
• Build and maintain a qualified new-business pipeline, track customer acquisition and conversion performance, and provide market intelligence to support long-term growth strategies.
   

The Essential Requirements Of The Job Include
 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Food Science, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Minimum 5 years of business-to-business sales or business development experience involving technical products, industrial equipment, or manufacturing solutions, with filtration experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience prospecting, developing, and acquiring new industrial or manufacturing customers.
• Experience managing technical sales opportunities from initial qualification through customer evaluation, commercial negotiation, and order conversion.
• Experience using Salesforce or a comparable customer relationship management platform to manage sales opportunities, customer acquisition activities, and pipeline forecasts.