Job Description

Business Development Manager - Creative Agency

Hybrid / In Office - Singapore-Apac

Permanent, full-time

We have a rare and exciting opportunity for a proactive and thoughtful Business Development Manager with experience in creative, digital or advertising agencies - to join us here at Orchid on our mission to help global brands bring empathy to complexity.

Working with some of the world\'s biggest and most innovative brands, we are looking to expand our existing business development team - with a BDM who loves consultative sales, who is comfortable with outreach and can quickly learn our services and USPs as well as our culture and values. This person will be working closely with our Business Development Director, CRO and CEO to grow our client base in the xxx region.

This person will play a key role in the agency, alongside a team of deeply skilled, passionate and like-minded people across the world by building and managing your own pipeline of opportunities, researching and reaching out to relevant new prospects and keeping an ear to the ground on the latest news, trends and opportunities for growth.

We\xe2\x80\x99re looking for a great collaborator and communicator, someone who understands the principles of brand strategy or design in general and has good experience managing prospect/client expectations and communication. Our perfect candidate will be naturally driven, a true self-starter with a willingness to succeed and grow within the agency and within their lives.

We are an independent and fairly modest agency in size, which means we have to be flexible and adaptable in chosen moments, try on new hats and help out in areas of the business that may need the support. The ideal candidate will love the idea of collaborating across the agency for the benefit of the wider team.

Requirements:
- You are respectful, committed, open-minded, courageous, thoughtful and a great person to represent Orchid in anything from boardrooms and workshop sessions to conference stages, drinks, parties.
- 2+ years in a business development or account growth role, within creative, digital or advertising agency
- Ability to build great relationships with clients to truly understand their objectives and deliver on them.
- Sales pipeline management and sales administration
- An interest in best practice for design, tech and innovation
- High level of self-certainty, integrity and motivation
- Adaptable and flexible in your approach

- Excellent written and verbal communication as well as great listener
- Comfortable presenting to large groups and senior management or board level stakeholders, both client and agency side
- Native/Bilingual English level is required. Any additional language is a huge plus.

_ Have the right to work in Singapore already as a resident or PR, will not be sponsoring a visa application.

About Orchid

Orchid is a strategic design collective who empower future-making brands, by bringing empathy to complexity and delivering results through innovation.

We are a truly unique place, run by a diverse group of people with various backgrounds and perspectives. What started in 2008 in Paris is today more than 50 people, with 15 different nationalities, who speak 13 different languages. Our main hubs are in Paris, London, NYC, S\xc3\xa3o Paulo and Singapore. But we work as one single organism. Decentralised, local but globally connected, all at the same time.

Having presence across 3 different time zones gives us the possibility to be open 20 hours a day for our clients, whilst allowing normal work hours for our team, in turn allowing us to offer high responsiveness to our clients needs no matter where in the world they are based.

We deliver the highest quality work for some of the world\'s biggest brands in tech, retail, FMCG and tourism, but also for SMBs who think outside the box and push the boundaries of expectation in whatever sector they work.

Why do we exist?
1 - To empower local creative talents.

2 - To generate new social and economic opportunities for our people and their communities.

Our Values
Freedom
Be adventurous, be autonomous, express your potential to build and rebuild.

Honesty
Speak your mind, be candid, fair, direct & transparent

Openness
Be curious, respectful, kind / friendly and inclusive.

Resilience
Be patient, be healthy, be flexible and a resourceful solution, constantly forward thinking.
Authenticity
Be yourself, passionate, reveal your talent and build bridges.

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