BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE - Full Time

The Drive TLV Team is Growing! Here's your chance to join us!

Drive TLV is an innovation hub focused on sustainable smart mobility. We bring together the world’s leading corporations and startups to create meaningful collaborations between the two.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop relationships with existing partners, in order to build trust and familiarity as well as deepen the new team member's professional competence with the goal of managing selected partnerships, once the ground is set. 
• Enable deeper acquaintance, familiarization and trust building with each and every partner, through expansion of Drive's reach and impact within each of its partners, as means for retention and for guaranteeing ultimate conditions for success. 
• Nurture relationships with new prospecting partners / pipeline companies & Drive's extended ecosystem: keeping close ties with the leading players in the ecosystem to enable reputation growth + capitalizing on possible partnership opportunities, once relevant.

Tracking progress vs goals across Drive's partnerships and pipeline related efforts:

• Existing Partners: maintaining successful retention goals, existing partnerships nurturing, active dialogue management and progress tracking, meetings prep and open items monitoring.
• Prospecting Partners: pipeline growth, events creation, follow up monitoring etc, ensuring momentum maintenance and continuous communication channels across the pipeline.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

• Proven experience in managing global accounts and working with senior stakeholders, with a proven track record of exceeding targets
• Patient individual, keen interest to grow relationships, get deeply acquainted with organizations and people with the determination to push each partnership to its ultimate goals.  
• 2+ years professional experience, involvement in company efforts associated with growth
• Direct sales and or account management experience
• Natural leader, comfortably independent, collaborator and team player 
• Ability to fly frequently, up to 8 days per quarter, in avg. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English