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Business Development Manager Jobs in South Africa at DesignRush

Title: Business Development Manager

Company: DesignRush

Location: South Africa

DesignRush.com is a B2B Media Platform that drives brand discovery & growth, is seeking a Business Development Manager. The site generates over 600,000 high‑intent B2B visitors monthly seeking growth insights, tools, and partners.

The Business Development Manager’s tasks is to:

  • Generate targeted leads
  • Show value to prospects, such as how they can increase their brand awareness, engagement, and lead generation by being featured on the DesignRush platform.
  • Sell media and exposure packages
  • Retain and upsell relationships

This position offers a base salary and monthly bonuses. This is for a full-time, remote-work-at-home position.

As our clients are US-based, this position requires candidates who work up until 5 pm EST.

DesignRush is seeking to make IMMEDIATE hires.

Goals for this Position:

  • Grow revenue by selling brand exposure and media packages
  • Nurture and manage relationships with brand clients.
  • Educate prospects on how DesignRush drives awareness, authority and leads
  • Meet and exceed monthly sales targets

Key Responsibilities:

  • Own the full Brand sales cycle: prospecting, closing, relationship management
  • Sell contributor columns, PR campaigns, newsletters, podcast features, digital PR and social media exposure packages
  • Identify and approach qualified brand decision-makers
  • Build trusted partnerships with key clients, increasing retention and revenue over time
  • Maintain pipeline activity in CRM
  • Collaborate with marketing and Sales Ops team

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of experience in business development and outbound sales to the digital sector
  • Experience selling marketing or visibility solutions preferred
  • Proven ability to sell and grow a client base
  • Proactive, analytical, tech-savvy, and has a growth mindset
  • Must have exceptional English communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Has a strong drive to help customers and enhance their experience
  • Experienced in working within cross-functional teams and is a true team player
  • Excellent organizational skills with proficiency in CRMs (HubSpot)
  • Must have a reliable computer and stable internet connection.
  • Able to work EST hours.

Recruitment steps:

  1. Apply via LinkedIn
  2. Receive a short questionnaire
  3. Send back answers + CV
  4. Recruiter Interview
  5. Technical Test
  6. Have an interview with our Hiring Manager and our General Manager
  7. Get feedback

We kindly ask for your CV and all correspondence to be in English.

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