This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Vice President, Business Development based in United States.
Lead the day-to-day execution and performance of a mission-driven corporate business development and revenue organization.
You will own the systems, processes, cadence, and talent required to achieve and scale annual revenue targets of approximately $20M.
The role spans fee-for-service offerings, sponsorships, memberships, and events, with a strong focus on enterprise relationships and sustainable growth.
You will translate commercial strategy into disciplined execution while maintaining visibility into pipeline health, forecasting, conversion, and performance.
As a senior operational leader, you will manage sales leaders and revenue operations professionals while building a high-performing, accountable, and collaborative team.
You will work closely with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to strengthen customer acquisition, retention, partnerships, and operational efficiency.
This is a remote-first leadership opportunity for an entrepreneurial, data-driven executive who is motivated by building scalable revenue capabilities in the social sector.
Accountabilities:
- Own execution of the annual sales plan and drive performance toward team revenue targets of approximately $20M across multiple revenue streams.
- Manage performance across fee-for-service offerings, sponsorships, memberships, and events, identifying gaps and reallocating resources as needed.
- Maintain a strategic portfolio of approximately $10M–$20M+ annually, including new business generation and enterprise-level, multi-year, and cross-program partnerships.
- Develop and execute customer acquisition, retention, and growth strategies in collaboration with Corporate Programs leadership.
- Translate strategic priorities into actionable revenue plans with clear segmentation, portfolio assignments, performance expectations, and pathways to goal.
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to executive leadership, using pipeline data and business insights to inform decisions.
- Review and provide input on corporate partnership proposals, budgets, pricing, and related commercial strategies.
- Own day-to-day revenue pipeline management, maintaining 3x+ pipeline coverage and disciplined opportunity management practices.
- Oversee current-year forecasting and future-year pipeline development, ensuring forecasts are grounded in verified activity, conversion assumptions, and pipeline quality.
- Establish a consistent operating cadence through team meetings, pipeline reviews, portfolio reviews, performance tracking, and accountability processes.
- Develop performance dashboards and reporting focused on pipeline health, activity levels, conversion rates, and overall Corporate Programs performance.
- Manage frontline sales leaders and revenue operations team members, setting clear goals, expectations, and performance standards.
- Provide coaching, mentorship, and professional development to build a high-performing and mission-aligned revenue organization.
- Serve as a senior operational liaison across Development, Marketing, Nonprofit Programs, Corporate Programs, Finance, and executive leadership.
- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to strengthen partner experiences, fundraising outcomes, operational efficiency, and mission delivery.
- Engage executive leaders and board-level stakeholders in high-level relationship management and prospecting activities.
- Identify opportunities for innovation, process improvement, and scalable ways of working that reduce friction and improve organizational performance.
- Lead or support strategic projects assigned by the Chief Marketing and Commercial Officer.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- 15+ years of progressive B2B sales or revenue leadership experience, ideally involving services, solutions, memberships, or other intangible offerings sold to large corporations.
- Demonstrated success leading revenue generation within a national organization and securing multi-year, multi-million-dollar corporate and foundation partnerships or giving.
- Proven experience managing teams responsible for $30M+ in annual revenue.
- Experience building, scaling, and developing high-performing sales or development teams.
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively at both strategic and hands-on operational levels.
- Strong enterprise revenue leadership experience across complex, multi-stream portfolios.
- Strong systems-thinking and operational excellence skills, with the ability to build scalable processes, structures, and performance systems.
- Data-driven approach to decision-making, including strong pipeline analysis, forecasting, performance management, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Exceptional interpersonal and relationship-building skills, with the ability to establish trusted relationships across diverse stakeholders and organizational levels.
- Excellent proposal writing and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate value, impact, and partnership opportunities.
- Strong communication, organizational, time management, and attention-to-detail skills.
- Demonstrated ability to drive results while navigating complex organizational environments.
- Hands-on experience with donor or revenue management databases; Salesforce experience is preferred.
- Ability to create a welcoming, collaborative, respectful, and inclusive work environment.
- Willingness and ability to travel up to 40%, including some international travel.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, solution-oriented environment.
Benefits:
- Salary of $145,000–$180,000 annually.
- Remote-first work environment for U.S.-based employees in Eastern or Central time zones, with Washington, DC preferred.
- 18 days of PTO, increasing to 20 days after three years of service.
- 10 paid holidays.
- Organization-wide closure from December 25 through January 1.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- Free life insurance.
- Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- 403(b) retirement plan with employer match.
- Paid parental leave.
- One day of volunteer time off per month.
- Opportunity to lead a mission-driven revenue function with broad organizational and community impact.
- Collaborative culture focused on innovation, dedication, teamwork, respect, and solution-oriented execution.
How Jobgether works:
We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.
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