VP, Business Development

The VP, Business Development is a senior-level individual contributor responsible for personally creating, advancing, and closing strategic new-logo business for Ansira.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Personally originate opportunities through outbound, account-based, relationship-led, partner-led, and executive-level selling.
• Lead multi-stakeholder pursuits involving business, marketing, technology, finance, procurement, legal, delivery, and executive stakeholders.
• Build trusted relationships with economic buyers, sponsors, champions, technical evaluators, and implementation stakeholders.
• Shape compelling solutions and business cases with Ansira's marketing, data, technology, creative, and delivery experts.
• Lead proposals, negotiations, risk management, close plans, and handoffs that are commercially sound and operationally feasible.
• Maintain accurate CRM records, opportunity stages, forecasts, next steps, and close plans.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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

• 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.