• Contact and qualify leads - Prospect new sales leads by making an initial phone or email contact. • Engage the account and prepare them for the Account Executive. • Connect with as many leads as possible to encourage the purchase of the product offered. • Be the point person for your team's sales lead qualification process. • Manage current accounts – Stay in close contact with existing accounts or leads and create brand awareness, educational opportunities, and request referrals. • Coordinate in-person meetings and calls between the new clients and Account Executives. • Customer support – Answer calls and emails from clients, identify the issue and make suggestions for future or new products or services.

Role Description GovCIO is currently hiring for a Business Development Executive. This position will be a fully remote position. - Develops key business relationships in the government marketplace, with a primary responsibility for identifying and developing opportunities for business expansion. - Supports the development of customer or market penetration strategies and individual opportunity win strategies, account plans, technology development plans, and partnering strategies. - May lead capture efforts to secure new or re-compete contracts, or task order business. - Develops and maintains sales pipeline in commercial and federal markets to support commercial sales and other cyber-related products and services. - Acts as liaison with government agencies and offices. - Ensures that the business development strategy is implemented. - Makes recommendations for change or modification to strategy. - Leads teams in order to develop and deliver various professional services solutions to include whitepapers, demonstrations, proposals, and other internally developed products used to identify, qualify, and capture new business. - Assists in developing and facilitating the sales process for specific clients, including budget and pricing development, proposal writing, contract negotiations, and client presentations. - Builds key customer relationships to maintain a good position in the market. - Maintains extensive knowledge of the current developments in the government marketplace in order to assess the position of the Company and determine how to improve it. - Coordinates sales effort with marketing, management, accounting, contracts, pricing, and technical groups. - Manages the implementation and execution of commercial products and services specific to executed sales (this includes product or service development). - Participates in professional/trade association activities and customer events. - Interfaces directly with clients on a regular basis to ensure customer satisfaction with solutions, develop stronger ongoing relationships, build new and broader relationships, and identify additional opportunities for Company solutions. Qualifications - Bachelor's with 15+ years (or commensurate experience). Requirements - Demonstrated analytical, reasoning, planning, and problem-solving abilities. - Demonstrated skills in communicating technical information to non-technical and technical customers, as well as how core technologies translate into customers' critical capabilities. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. - Ability to work with executive and senior leadership. Preferred Skills and Experience - Secret Clearance is preferred. Posted Salary Range - USD $190,000.00 - USD $210,000.00 /Yr.

• Identify and research high-fit accounts within the Sage Intacct, Acumatica, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central ecosystems. • Execute high-volume outbound campaigns (60+ activities/day) using a mix of cold calling, personalized emailing, and LinkedIn engagement. • Conduct initial discovery calls to uncover prospect pain points, specifically around manual data exports, complex consolidations, and "reporting hairballs." • Qualify leads using frameworks like BANT or MEDDIC and schedule high-quality discovery meetings/demos for Account Executives. • Engage with ERP partners and consultants to identify "greenfield" opportunities where Velixo can solve immediate reporting gaps. • Maintain meticulous records in our CRM, ensuring all interactions are tracked and follow-ups are executed with precision.

• Support the Sr. Director of Business Development in achieving revenue, growth and profitability across financial services partnerships, including banking, credit cards, lending, and other fintech categories • Collaborate closely with vertical managers, editorial teams, product, and commercial stakeholders to identify and execute growth opportunities across the Forbes Advisor financial services portfolio • Planning, identifying and successfully onboarding new advertisers and products to deliver against commercial targets and ROI • Build strong relationships with affiliate networks and media agencies to unlock new advertiser opportunities that complement Forbes Advisor portfolio of properties • Responsible for the ongoing relationship, account management and optimization of Forbes Advisor publisher partnerships, ensuring all relevant growth opportunities are identified • Driving improvements in business development processes, including partner performance tracking, reporting, campaign optimization, and go-to-market execution to support scalable growth across the financial services business