A business development specialist is a sales professional, specialized in industries of service or specific products. These types of professionals have an expertise which is regarding to service they sell of the product which they have.
Required qualification
The education level required for this field is just a degree in bachelor, related with the services or the product the specialist sells. If the professional has the successful sales history or back ground then the employer will overlook the degree. The sales professionals should have an excellent time management, customer service, and presentation skills and the inquisitive personality.
Responsibilities of a business development specialist
The responsibilities which the business development specialist should have are they sell products and their services in specialized industries. Their responsibilities also include preparing a meeting schedule for the potential customers and they also show their responsibility of selling their products or presenting or servicing the products to the customers. These types of jobs always require traveling. They should be traveling in local or in any national or any region to meet the customers.
Reimbursement Structure
The employer often offers any car or any travel reimbursement to the sales professional to move from place to place. Some companies give travel allowance for bus or train or what ever else they may use and extra money to the employee for their food and staying purpose. The salary level of this business development specialist is $73,000 for a year as per report generated in January 2010. These sales professionals are always paid a base salary with commissions, bonus, incentives etc. Their salary must be higher based on their performance on their field.
