Business Development Coordinator bei Bonton Associates

Job Summary

The Business Development Coordinator will focus on researching and tracking business opportunities, maintaining CRM data, analyzing business trends, and supporting client engagement initiatives. This role requires a proactive approach to identifying potential projects, managing client information, and supporting corporate networking efforts to contribute to the firm's growth and success.

Primary Responsibilities

• Review news articles and websites daily/weekly to identify upcoming bids (RFPs) for projects.
• Enter and update CRM with information from meetings, networking events, and client interactions.
• Maintain client demographic data, including preferences, to assist the Director in meeting preparation.
• Create and manage documents or dashboards for tracking client details.
• Search and analyze data to better understand business opportunities and client needs.
• Track spending against opportunities to assess the cost of winning contracts.
• Utilize and manage software tools such as BQE CORE CRM.
• Explore additional functionalities within these tools to improve productivity.
• Plan and schedule client events, including logistics and ticket distribution.
• Assist with attending key events to represent the company.
• Organize and oversee networking activities to foster strong client relationships.
• Coordinate events and initiatives to enhance client engagement and retention.
• Provide marketing support by coordinating campaigns, ensuring brand consistency, and assisting with outreach materials that promote the company’s services and expertise.
• Oversee social media presence by planning content calendars, posting updates, and monitoring engagement to strengthen the company’s visibility and reputation.
• Create content for social media and marketing campaigns that highlights recent projects, company milestones, and client success stories.
• Assist in proposal development by preparing, editing, and formatting RFP and RFQ responses to ensure accuracy, compliance, and a polished presentation.
• Collaborate with the engineering team to build and maintain a content library of case studies, project narratives, resumes, and other materials for use in proposals and marketing initiatives.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Sales/Marketing, or related field from Accredited Program.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, etc.
• Skilled in the use of InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, or similar software for content creation
• Experience in CRM use preferred

Key Competencies

• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Oversees the advancement of individual professional development.
• Basic knowledge of principles and practices of related fields.

• Ability to function on multidisciplinary teams.
• Learning skills.
• Analytical thinking.
• Basic understanding of Accounting and Financial matters.
• Customer service orientation.
• Ability to use independent judgment
• Planning and organizing.
• Attention to detail.
• Stress tolerance.

Physical Requirements

• Normal, corrective vision range; ability to see color and to distinguish letters, numbers and symbols.
• Frequently required to sit, stand, walk, talk, hear, bend and reach for long periods of times.
• Ability to reach with hands and arms.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Other Duties

This job description is not an all-inclusive of all job duties.  Job duties and responsibilities may be assigned which are not mentioned above at any time based upon the demands of the Company.  Essential functions and overtime eligibility may vary based on the specific duties/requirements assigned to the position.