Lead Business Development Manager
Chicago, Illinois
Job Description:
Sales employees will concentrate on acquiring new business and conducting customer visits in the field. When not in the field, they are expected to collaborate with their team from their assigned office location, if available.
About this Role
As a Business Development Manager for AT&T Consulting and Professional Services you will play a critical role in driving AT&T’s growth by generating and closing new business. You will be responsible for prospecting, qualifying opportunities, and setting up meetings to present and close Network/Cloud, Voice transformation and Mobility/IOT Consulting and professional services opportunities. You will have the benefit of working with an experienced team to assist with your business development efforts. The ideal candidate is passionate about a technology sales career, business acumen, possesses excellent communication skills, and has a strong drive to succeed.
Key Roles and Responsibilities
- Direct Responsibility to sell AT&T Consulting and Professional Services with minimal supervision.
- Identify and generate sales to new customers and expand existing revenue within an established account base.
- Demonstrate and apply consultative selling strategies to customer opportunities in collaboration with AT&T direct sales teams and other AT&T resources.
- Maintain knowledge of relevant technologies and services that drive customer investment to solve for customer’s business, organization, and informational challenges.
- Maintain accurate module performance metrics to facilitate consistent growth that aligns with management insight requirements.
What will you do in this role?
- Drive the entire sales lifecycle from prospecting to closing new opportunities.
- Travel and meet with client at their locations, leverage virtual meetings, phone calls, and written communication.
- Work with seasoned partners and management to provide subject matter expertise and facilitate the sales lifecycle.
- Develop expertise across a wide range of technologies and the associated consulting practices that support them to guide customers in their transformational efforts.
- Develop the administrative and reporting skills to help manage your office performance as well as meet organizational goals
- Work closely with AT&T Consulting Practice Leads, Consultants, and Core Sales Account teams to engage new clients and expand existing business engagements
- Develop, design, and deliver proposals, presentations, strategic pricing models in collaboration with internal and external partners to solve customer strategic business challenges.
Compensation Offered:
Our Lead Business Development Manager, earns between $122,000 - $183,000 + $80,000 in commissions with a total target compensation of $202,000 - $263,000. Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.
Ideal candidate:
Education:
- requires a Bachelor’s degree
Experience:
- Requires a minimum of 8 years exceeding targets as an individual contributor selling IT services to Enterprise and/or SLED customers
- Requires a minimum 3 years’ experience selling IT Consulting and professional services
Supervisor:
- No
Job Contribution:
- A senior-level sales representative with advanced understanding of sales principles, practices, products, and services.
- Manages large, complex sales with light supervision.
- Responsible for higher-than-average sales quota or territory.
- Demonstrates effective communication, advanced data analysis, leverages extensive experience, and problem-solving skills.
- May introduce new products, lead training, and mentor colleagues.
- If the sales career path includes multiple positions at the I11 level, the more senior role entails higher sales targets, broader scope, and greater complexity.
Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:
- Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Caregiver Leave
- Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
- Adoption Reimbursement
- Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
- Life and Accidental Death Insurance
- Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
- Extensive employee wellness programs
- Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories,
- AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone
Ready to join our sales team? Apply today
Weekly Hours:
40Time Type:
RegularLocation:
Chicago, IllinoisSalary Range:
$122,000.00 - $183,000.00It is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made.
Job ID R-78743 Date posted 08/12/2025
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