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VP, Business Development

Ansira
Chicago, IL, USAHybridMarketing and DesignDirector+Not Specified - Not SpecifiedPosted: today

About the role

The VP, Business Development is a senior-level individual contributor responsible for personally creating, advancing, and closing strategic new-logo business for Ansira. The VP will influence and coordinate cross-functional partners while maintaining personal accountability for pipeline, forecast, deal progression, and results. What you will own Personal new-logo growth: Develop and execute a territory and account strategy aligned to Ansira’s priorities.

Pipeline creation: Personally originate opportunities through outbound, account-based, relationship-led, partner-led, and executive-level selling. Complex sales: Lead multi-stakeholder pursuits involving business, marketing, technology, finance, procurement, legal, delivery, and executive stakeholders. Executive relationships: Build trusted relationships with economic buyers, sponsors, champions, technical evaluators, and implementation stakeholders. Solution development: Shape compelling solutions and business cases with Ansira's marketing, data, technology, creative, and delivery experts.

Commercial execution: Lead proposals, negotiations, risk management, close plans, and handoffs that are commercially sound and operationally feasible. Sales discipline: Maintain accurate CRM records, opportunity stages, forecasts, next steps, and close plans. Market insight: Bring buyer feedback, competitive intelligence, and actionable ideas back to Ansira leadership and cross-functional partners. What success looks like Deliver personal new-logo revenue, gross profit, or other approved quota measure. Build strong, self-sourced pipeline with credible stage progression.

Deliver healthy win rate, forecast accuracy, sales-cycle control, and commercial quality. Create strong executive and buying-committee engagement in strategic pursuits. Maintain alignment between sold work, delivery capability, margin, and client expectations. Establish repeatable account planning, discovery, business case, and deal management practices. Specific revenue, gross-profit, logo, pipeline, and quality goals will be documented in the compensation plan. What you bring Required experience Demonstrated success personally originating and closing complex new-logo business.

A track record of achieving or exceeding individual new-business goals in a consultative B2B environment. Experience navigating multi-stakeholder sales cycles involving executive, technical, financial, procurement, legal, and delivery stakeholders. Evidence of creating pipeline through outbound, account-based, relationship-led, partner-led, and executive-level selling. Experience translating complex services, marketing capabilities, technology solutions, or business-transformation offerings into measurable client outcomes.

Strong commercial judgment, negotiation skills, and understanding of value-based selling. Demonstrated use of CRM and sales analytics to manage pipeline, forecast, stage progression, and performance. Ability to influence and coordinate cross-functional partners without direct-management authority. Executive presence and comfort engaging senior decision-makers. People-management experience is not required. Experience as a senior individual contributor, strategic account executive, enterprise business developer, or similar new-business seller is highly relevant.

Preferred experience Marketing technology, agency services, customer experience, data, technology services, or another consultative environment. Selling to or through channel, partner, franchise, distributor, or distributed-market ecosystems. Large, complex client relationships and multi-year commercial arrangements. Long, multi-stakeholder sales cycles. Private equity-backed, high-growth, or transformation environments. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. Ansira is the leading marketing platform for brands that operate in distributed ecosystems.

By orchestrating the entire brand-to-local value chain, Ansira synchronizes global companies’ internal and external teams across channels, markets and regions. Ansira leverages AI-powered technology, vertical expertise, local insights and strategic partnerships to optimize marketing performance and empower partner growth at scale.

Minimum requirements

  • Proven success in originating and closing complex new-logo B2B sales with multi-stakeholder cycles.
  • Strong commercial judgment, negotiation skills, CRM proficiency, and ability to influence cross-functional teams.
  • Executive presence and experience as a senior individual contributor in consultative, strategic business development.

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