Business Development Representative
Givzey provides honest financing options to donors to help support their donations. The Business Development Associate will help the BD and Sales teams identify and drive opportunities to build our business. This role will have a direct impact on top-priority organizational goals and will provide accelerated career development with a world-class team.
About Givzey:
Givzey is a rapidly-growing, Boston-based digital fundraising solutions company, built by fundraisers for nonprofit organizations. As fundraising’s first Gift Agreement Platform, Givzey empowers fundraisers to easily and immediately formalize and book pledges of all sizes by scaling multi-year giving strategies to all levels of giving. Solve retention, grow the pipeline, and increase revenue with Givzey: www.givzey.com.
Business Development Representative Responsibilities are:
- Drive new business by identifying, qualifying, and developing new partnership opportunities for Givzey
- Collaborate closely with Account Executives and the rest of the Sales & BD team to strategize creative outreach campaigns and determine priority of outreach based on potential impact
- Manage the first stages of the Sales & Business Development pipeline by performing initial outreach and nurturing leads through various inbound channels, including phone, email and social
- Engage potential partners about their goals and challenges, and educate them on the value of Givzey
- Develop best practices and efficient processes for growing our merchant partner base
- Contribute significantly to Givzey’s growth as we scale our core business and product
Business Development Representative requirements are:
- Strong passion for Givzey's mission, and for E-commerce and/or finance
- Ability to work closely with functional teams internally; credit, legal, tech, etc.
- Minimum 3 months of prior work experience, preferably in sales
- Must have nonprofit fundraising experience
- The desire to pursue a role in sales, and the drive to be successful
- Grit. Lots of grit. You need to embrace challenges and be willing to work hard to achieve audacious goals
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Self-motivated, extremely detail-oriented, and strong time management skills
- Creativity and strong critical reasoning skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and evolving work environment
- Willingness to step up to greater responsibility, strong desire to contribute to overall goals