Business Development Manager

at  Black Bear Sports Group

Black Bear Sports Group- Business Development Manager
Responsible for BBSG employee and tier 1 and tier 2 hockey club members corporate perks program relationships and marketing and sponsorship lead generation as assigned
Full time, exempt, $ 50,000 base salary annually, full benefits + variable incentives based on specific results
Reports to Sr. Director of Sales and Marketing

Responsibilities include:

• Soliciting specific national and regional products and services providers to establish contractual arrangements that provide for proprietary value-added discounts and other incentives to BBSG employees and tier 1 and tier 2 hockey club members as well as potential reciprocal program discounts at BBSG arenas for their employees and customers
• After establishing a relationship and contracting with specific national and regional products and services providers that provide for proprietary value-added discounts and other incentives to BBSG employees and tier 1 and tier 2 hockey club members, solicit a meeting with the lead for marketing and sponsorship so opportunities with BBSG can be advanced
• Solicit specific marketing and sponsorship lead meetings with targeted company categories /companies in each of the BBSG arena geographies and or regional or national synergies as appropriate
• Maintain proprietary value-added discounts and other incentives to BBSG employees and tier 1 and tier 2 hockey club members on-line portal on an ongoing basis
• Provide content and data support as needed for presentation materials as assigned

B.A. in related field and 3 to 5 years of business development experience in the sports industry preferred
About Black Bear Sports Group, Inc. – Black Bear Sports Group, Inc. is a privately held company formed by Murry Gunty and Blackstreet Capital Holdings, LLC in 2015 that seeks investments in sports and entertainment facilities, teams, and youth sports events. Black Bear arenas are clean, professionally managed, and offer world-class recreational programs. Black Bear focuses on ice arenas in metropolitan areas with compelling demographics, markets with a National Hockey League club presence, and arenas with existing youth hockey clubs. Black Bear not only features the ability to acquire healthy and stable arenas but also the expertise required to turn around mismanaged or underperforming facilities. The largest owner/operator of ice arenas in the U.S., Black Bear’s footprint totals 40 facilities across the United States with 74 sheets of indoor ice, four indoor turf fields, 39 youth hockey clubs, four hockey leagues (Atlantic Hockey Federation, Atlantic Girls Hockey Federation, Tier 1 Hockey Federation, and National Girls Hockey League), two tournament businesses (Defender Hockey Tournaments and The Show Tournaments), six Junior “A” hockey franchises with membership in the United States Hockey League, North American Hockey League, USPHL NCDC, USPHL Premier and Elite, and Foundry Adult Hockey, the largest adult hockey organization in the USA. For more, go to https://www.blackbearsportsgroup.com/

• Soliciting specific national and regional products and services providers to establish contractual arrangements that provide for proprietary value-added discounts and other incentives to BBSG employees and tier 1 and tier 2 hockey club members as well as potential reciprocal program discounts at BBSG arenas for their employees and customers
• After establishing a relationship and contracting with specific national and regional products and services providers that provide for proprietary value-added discounts and other incentives to BBSG employees and tier 1 and tier 2 hockey club members, solicit a meeting with the lead for marketing and sponsorship so opportunities with BBSG can be advanced
• Solicit specific marketing and sponsorship lead meetings with targeted company categories /companies in each of the BBSG arena geographies and or regional or national synergies as appropriate
• Maintain proprietary value-added discounts and other incentives to BBSG employees and tier 1 and tier 2 hockey club members on-line portal on an ongoing basis
• Provide content and data support as needed for presentation materials as assigne