Kline + Company is a global market intelligence and advisory firm specializing in Energy, Chemicals, and Beauty sectors. Celebrating 65 years of industry leadership in 2024, Kline delivers data-driven insights, deep industry expertise, and actionable strategies to help clients achieve sustainable growth.
We are seeking a Senior Business Development Manager to join our Global Food and Nutrition practice. This practice delivers strategic insights and advisory support across the food, beverage, and nutrition value chain. From health ingredients, plant-based proteins, and sweeteners to emerging trends such as longevity and precision fermentation, we help clients make confident, data-backed decisions in a fast-changing market, enabling them to navigate disruption, unlock growth, and drive innovation.
The role will be to identify and seize new business opportunities and encompass selling syndicated market and competitive intelligence solutions as well as consulting services to leading global companies. You will also be involved with cultivating lasting, value-driven relationships with existing clients as well.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key decision-makers in strategic accounts.
- Drive the end-to-end sales process, from lead generation to negotiation, procurement, and account management.
- Identify and capitalize on new business opportunities within existing and new accounts.
- Employ a consultative selling approach to create tailored proposals that address client needs.
- Collaborate with internal teams, including customer success, IT, and marketing, to ensure seamless solution delivery and promotion.
- Develop and execute strategic account plans to achieve sales targets and business objectives.
- Provide leadership with regular updates and reports on account performance and progress.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 7 years of experience in a Business Development Management role, preferably in market research, consulting, or information services.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field; MBA is a strong advantage.
- Proven success in selling syndicated and custom solutions as well as consulting services to large companies (revenues exceeding $10 million).
- Strong ability to network across multiple departments such as strategic insights, marketing, innovation/R&D, and procurement to identify and close opportunities.
- Demonstrated capability to effectively manage a sales pipeline, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, both in-person and virtual.
- Proficiency with MS Office, Salesforce, and LinkedIn.
