Business Development Officer, or Business Development Manager, is responsible for overseeing the implementation of business development strategies to heighten company profitability. Their duties include leading a team of business development and sales professionals, identifying business opportunities to pursue and creating business proposals to support their ideas.

Business Development Officer duties and responsibilities

A Business Development Officer’s main goal is to identify opportunities for business growth and create marketing strategies based on those opportunities in order to meet and exceed revenue goals. A Business Development Officer’s typical responsibilities include:

• Analyzing current and past financial data and providing strategies to cut costs and increase revenue

• Leading the charge on market research plans to identify new opportunities

• Working with executives to implement marketing strategies and new opportunities

• Encouraging new and existing clients by creating and improving proposals

• Tracking expenses and maintaining the company budget

• Ensuring that the company meets revenue targets

• Providing training and mentoring to other members of the team

• Developing and pitching ideas for potential investors