Job Description

DESCRIPTION

Would you like to be part of a team focused on driving innovation in the transportation industry, while working to empower entrepreneurs? As the Amazon Freight Partner (AFP) Sr. Business Development Manager (BDM), you will lead efforts to identify, engage, and select high-quality candidates to join the program. You will analyze capacity needs and candidate pipelines, launch new programs, and optimize existing programs to continue to to build a strong a candidate pipeline.

Key job responsibilities
This role will develop the long-term business development strategy for AFP recruitment and continue building and scaling process to execute that strategy. In addition to recruiting new owners, this role leads the selection of bench candidates for launch opportunities. The successful candidate must be data- and process-driven as well as creative in developing long-term relationships within the business communities from which we source AFP talent to join the program. The right candidate will have strong interpersonal skills to collaborate closely with internal teams including acquisition and training program managers, AFP Business Coaches, and other cross-functional partners.

A day in the life
We seek customer-obsessed, driven individuals with a wide range of academic backgrounds, work experiences, and perspectives. As the Business Development Manager, you’ll ask the right questions to assess root cause, exude excellent relationship management skills, and index high on ownership to transform ideas into action. This candidate will also create structure and process, often in ambiguous situations, aligning teams to deliver, and creating scalable, long-term mechanisms to ensure work is being done in the right places, addressing bottlenecks, driving process improvement, and creating best practices.

About the team
With the Amazon Freight Partner program, ambitious entrepreneurs can start and grow their trucking businesses alongside Amazon with consistent, long-term work, while we help them overcome the many obstacles to starting up a carrier business.

Our team embraces the entrepreneurial spirit in how we work. We build and iterate innovative customer solutions in a fast-paced, collaborative, creative environment.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years of professional or military experience
- Experience structuring and negotiating complex agreements and leading cross-functional groups to orchestrate and successfully complete deals
- Experience with sales CRM tools such as Salesforce or similar software

Job Tags

Full time, Work experience placement,

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