Business Development Consultant

at  Groupon

Job Description
Groupon is in the midst of a unique transformation phase, offering a challenging yet rewarding environment with ample opportunities for personal and professional growth. Our mission is to restore the company’s growth and enhance the value we bring to local vendors through attractive experiences and services for their customers.
Our Business Development teams focus on building partnerships with new Groupon merchants. We spend our days learning about what makes small-business tick and how to craft unique marketing campaigns to help them reach their targeted audiences. Our expertise ultimately creates jobs and drives economies as we help local merchants thrive.

Role Overview:

• As a Business Development Consultant (BDC), you’ll focus on local business for the Groupon platform.
• Starting day 1, you’ll receive hands-on professional sales training and learn the core skills needed to be successful long term. Through our training program, you’ll learn about customer relationship building, Groupon’s sales process, sales strategy, sales psychology, and more.

• You’ll use the skills developed in this training to make connections, grow partnerships, and scale the businesses we have on our site - both big and small.

  Job Responsibilities:

• You will seek out new business opportunities, targeting local, through cold calling to engage, consult, and close local deals

• Develop familiarity with each merchant’s business, including but not limited to: products and/or services, consumer demographics, consumer ratings, points of competitive differentiation, merchant economic model, and revenue/profit drivers
• Utilize knowledge of deal structure and strategy to reach Groupon’s and merchants’ desired outcomes and maximize profit
• Take ownership of the contract negotiation process, dealing with margins, discounts, and other critical elements
• Consistently achieve and/or exceed your sales targets
• Work with Merchant Development teams post-close to ensure a flawless transition of accounts and align on merchant strategy

• Drive market growth for both quality of merchants and revenue

  Skills & Competencies

• Success in a sales role within a territory or for a product

• Inside sales experience over the phone/email and social selling.
• Proven depth of knowledge and experience in transactional selling
• High level of understanding and entry-level experience in relationship management with small-sized accounts & strong sales orientation
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in meeting sales quotas, sales negotiation and problem-solving.
• Ability to demonstrate strong sales performance using sales instinct and judgement
• High degrees of diligence and accountability, with evidence of personal results
• You’re resilient, and possess the innate ability to inspire passion in others
• You are able to confidently demonstrate ownership of your performance, always looking for ways to be more coachable and improve
• Committed to a high standard of integrity and work ethic
• You’re an excellent listener and can also be assertive, persistent, and persuasive

• Salesforce or other CRM experience a plus

  We offer:

• A fast paced, international environment where you will gain significant professional growth.

• A supportive, performance driven sales team
• Great, uncapped commission structure

Join us in this transformative journey at Groupon, where your impact will drive our success and create lasting value for our customers and vendors.
Groupon’s purpose is to build strong communities through thriving small businesses. To learn more about the world’s largest local ecommerce marketplace
. You can also find out more about us in the
latest Groupon news
as well as learning about our
DEI approach
. If all of this sounds like something that’s a great fit for you, and join us on a mission to become the ultimate destination for local experiences and services.
Beware of Recruitment Fraud: Groupon follows a merit-based recruitment process without charging job seekers any fees. We’ve noticed an increase in recruitment fraud, including fake job postings and fraudulent interviews and job offers aimed at stealing personal information or money. Be cautious of individuals falsely representing Groupon’s Talent Acquisition team with fake job offers. If you encounter any suspicious job offers or interview calls demanding money, recognize these as scams. Groupon is not responsible for losses from such dealings. For legitimate job openings, always check our official careers website at
grouponcareers.com
.
Groupon’s purpose is to build strong communities through thriving small businesses. To learn more about the world’s largest local ecommerce marketplace
. You can also find out more about us in the
latest Groupon news
as well as learning about our
DEI approach
. If all of this sounds like something that’s a great fit for you, and join us on a mission to become the ultimate destination for local experiences and services.
Beware of Recruitment Fraud: Groupon follows a merit-based recruitment process without charging job seekers any fees. We’ve noticed an increase in recruitment fraud, including fake job postings and fraudulent interviews and job offers aimed at stealing personal information or money. Be cautious of individuals falsely representing Groupon’s Talent Acquisition team with fake job offers. If you encounter any suspicious job offers or interview calls demanding money, recognize these as scams. Groupon is not responsible for losses from such dealings. For legitimate job openings, always check our official careers website at
grouponcareers.com

Role Overview:

• As a Business Development Consultant (BDC), you’ll focus on local business for the Groupon platform.
• Starting day 1, you’ll receive hands-on professional sales training and learn the core skills needed to be successful long term. Through our training program, you’ll learn about customer relationship building, Groupon’s sales process, sales strategy, sales psychology, and more.
• You’ll use the skills developed in this training to make connections, grow partnerships, and scale the businesses we have on our site - both big and small

Job Responsibilities:

• You will seek out new business opportunities, targeting local, through cold calling to engage, consult, and close local deals
• Develop familiarity with each merchant’s business, including but not limited to: products and/or services, consumer demographics, consumer ratings, points of competitive differentiation, merchant economic model, and revenue/profit drivers
• Utilize knowledge of deal structure and strategy to reach Groupon’s and merchants’ desired outcomes and maximize profit
• Take ownership of the contract negotiation process, dealing with margins, discounts, and other critical elements
• Consistently achieve and/or exceed your sales targets
• Work with Merchant Development teams post-close to ensure a flawless transition of accounts and align on merchant strategy
• Drive market growth for both quality of merchants and revenu