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AI Business Development Manager

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Experience in regulatory or certification industries.
  • Proven track record in consultative B2B sales, including taking new products into new markets.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to manage complex client requirements and build executive-level relationships.
  • Strong knowledge of upcoming AI regulations and related guidance, with ability to explain AI standards development processes to clients.

Responsibilities

  • Proactively engage with new and existing clients and identify new prospects to grow the client base.
  • Account opportunity management to develop a solid sales pipeline and ensure timely delivery aligned with client expectations.
  • Accurately record sales and order information in the CRM; stay up-to-date with developments in AI regulations and standards.
  • Deliver presentations and clearly communicate complex AI-related concepts and BSI product offerings to clients.

About the company

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BSI is your business improvement partner. We have shaped best practice for over 100 years, helping organizations around the world embed excellence, build competence and capability for sustainable growth.

Company details

Company typeLarge
IndustryLearning & development
Company size1001 - 5000

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Additional Job Description

Job Title: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Sales Manager

Location: UK

Field based: Remote/Field based

Our AI Business Unit (AI BU) is seeking a highly recognised, energetic and market visible Sales/Business Development Manager with prior experience of selling AI services or SaaS in a consultative, business to business sales environment.

The AI BU has been recently established and the ideal professional will leverage BSI’s reputation, capabilities, and global network of top tier expertise to create sales opportunities in previously unrecognized markets; successfully sell to new and existing clients; and expand market share across the industries such as Biometric, Manufacturing, and many more.

Our AI Business Development Manager will identify and develop sales opportunities by gleaning an in-depth understanding of clients’ business needs and drivers through a thorough, structured business review. Equally as important is the efficient account management of our client base, following a structured contact strategy, ensuring maximum client retention.

If you have some experience of the AI market and have strong, proven sales and business development skills, this may be a perfect opportunity to you to join a highly respected organisation at a key time.  All the excitement of a start-up, and all the security of an established and respected global leader in one opportunity!

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

  • Proactively engaging with existing & new clients.

  • Identifying new prospects and growing the client base.

  • Accept responsibility for the timeliness of delivery in line with the clients’ expectations.

  • Account & opportunity management to develop solid pipeline.

  • Accurately record sales and order information in the CRM.

  • Remain up to date with developments in global AI Acts and the standards industry. Also be able to explain the standards development process and upcoming AI technical/quality management standards (e.g. 42001, 42006, etc) to clients.

  • Effectively conveying complex ideas & business proposals showing breadth & depth of BSI product offering, including giving presentations.

Skills & Experience required:

  • Ideally you will be experienced in working in the regulatory &/or certification industry.

  • You must be experienced and comfortable holding technical conversations with clients around software development & the software life cycle.

  • Business level English language skills, written and oral.

  • Substantial experience of working in a regulated industry, professional service environment.

  • A track record of successful consultative sales accomplishments (local, regional, national, global account growth & development)

  • Excellent interpersonal skills & ability to build good relationships at executive level.

  • Have proven sales track record in taking new products into new markets

  • Be able to demonstrate successful management of complex client requirements

  • Good knowledge of up-coming AI regulations and related guidance

  • Excellent verbal & written communication skills including presentation design & delivery.

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As the leading global business standards company BSI helps 80,000 clients worldwide to improve their businesses. From business continuity to recycling waste, from medical devices to the exploration of space, we help businesses embed the habits of excellence so that they perform better, manage their risks more effectively and achieve sustainable growth and in doing so we touch the lives of many across the globe.

Our Excellence Behaviours: Client-centric, Agile, Collaborative. These three behaviours represent how we do things at BSI. They help us ensure that BSI is a great place to work and a highly successful business.

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BSI is committed to ensuring the diversity of our workforce reflects that of our clients and the communities in which we operate. Our goal is to create a sense of belonging for all employees by providing opportunities to develop, grow, and engage with our global organization all while having fun doing great work. BSI is a community where everyone can thrive.

If you require any reasonable accommodations to be made on account of a disability or impairment throughout out our recruiting process, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner.

About Us

BSI is a business improvement and standards company and for over a century BSI has been recognized for having a positive impact on organizations and society, building trust and enhancing lives.
 
Today BSI partners with more than 77,500 clients in 195 countries and engages with a 15,000 strong global community of experts, industry and consumer groups, organizations and governments.
Utilizing its extensive expertise in key industry sectors - including automotive, aerospace, built environment, food and retail, and healthcare - BSI delivers on its purpose by helping its clients fulfil theirs.
Living by our core values of Client-Centricity, Agility, and Collaboration, BSI provides organizations with the confidence to grow by partnering with them to tackle society’s critical issues – from climate change to building trust in digital transformation and everything in between - to accelerate progress towards a better society and a sustainable world.

BSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

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