The role
We are looking for a Business Development Manager to join our talented Sales team based in either New York or Los Angeles.
Salary range - $80,000 - $87,000
This is an office-based role out of our New York / LA office
Working at WGSN
Together, we create tomorrow
A career with WGSN is fast-paced, exciting and full of opportunities to grow and develop. We're a team of consumer and design trend forecasters, content creators, designers, data analysts, advisory consultants and much more, united by a common goal: to create tomorrow. WGSN's trusted consumer and design forecasts power outstanding product design, enabling our customers to create a better future. Our services cover consumer insights, beauty, consumer tech, fashion, interiors, lifestyle, food and drink forecasting, data analytics and expert advisory. If you are an expert in your field, we want to hear from you.
Role overview
WGSN has ambitious plans for 2025/26 and therefore, we are looking for a talented Business Development Manager to join our dynamic Sales team in North America.
What will you be doing?
You will identify business opportunities, build key prospect relationships, negotiate, and close business deals and maintain extensive knowledge of current market conditions. You will use a consultative sales style to create, implement and manage a strategy to help achieve aggressive sales goals.
This opportunity is ideal for an individual who has demonstrated success within previous sales positions, with a few years of solid experience.
Experience with consultative selling is a plus, as is sales in the SaaS space. Experience in the Consumer Tech and Food & Drinks space is also a huge bonus. We offer extensive training and clear career progression for successful individuals.
You will be interacting with small to enterprise size companies, focused on a variety of industries such as Fashion, Beauty, Food & Drink, Consumer Tech and Interiors.
This role does not involve line management but will involve managing the sales process for closing large and mid-size customer opportunities while achieving individual targets and KPI’s.
The team
You will be part of a dynamic and supportive new business sales team made up of Business Development Representatives, Business Development Managers and Strategic Business Development Managers, selling the world's leading consumer insight and trend forecasting suite of products. We have a great team spirit that promotes collaboration which leads to success.
Our teams are diverse, tenacious, resilient, and extremely dedicated because they wholeheartedly believe in the value WGSN services brings to our global clientele who operate in Fashion, Beauty, Interiors, Food & Drink, Insight, Consumer Tech and beyond. We never compromise on collaboration which allows us to have a strong team dynamic and we always achieve our sales goals.