Business Development Specialist — AgencyIQ

Job Description:

POLITICOs mission from the very beginning was to win the audience. We dedicate ourselves to providing accurate non-partisan impactful information to the right people at the right time so that they can act with confidence and speed.

POLITICO is seeking a Business Development Specialist to join AgencyIQ a regulatory research and intelligence division of POLITICO.

As a Business Development Specialist (BDS) you will be an integral part of the new business team responsible for identifying and engaging future AgencyIQ subscribers across the life sciences and food industries helping to deliver a high-value subscription product to a sophisticated audience of regulatory and policy professionals.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of sales research communication and strategy.

How Youll Do It

Identify and engage prospective subscribers using strategic outbound prospecting inbound qualification LinkedIn engagement email outreach phone outreach events and relationship-building initiatives;

Use AI-enabled sales and research tools to improve prospecting efficiency personalization account research and market signal detection;

Schedule high-quality meetings with senior regulatory policy quality and executive stakeholders through thoughtful consistent and creative outreach;

Research life sciences and food organizations regulatory teams market dynamics and emerging regulatory/policy developments to improve outreach relevance and effectiveness;

Develop strong knowledge of AgencyIQs content platform capabilities and the regulatory environments impacting prospective clients;

Build executive-ready pre-meeting briefs stakeholder maps and account intelligence summaries for the commercial team;

Partner closely with Commercial Leadership to provide insights and data around visit acquisition trends tactics and drivers;

Maintain accurate pipeline and engagement data within Salesforce and other GTM systems.

What Youll Need

Strong written and verbal communication skills in a professional setting;

Intellectual curiosity and interest in life sciences food policy regulation public policy research or current events;

Ability to synthesize information quickly and communicate clearly to both prospects and internal stakeholders;

Competitive drive and demonstrated initiative through academics athletics leadership roles internships entrepreneurial projects or other high-performance environments;

Interest in sales business development market strategy communications or client engagement;

Comfort using AI tools and modern sales technologies to improve productivity research quality and workflow efficiency.

Ideal Backgrounds

Experience in competitive environments through athletics academics leadership entrepreneurship research or policy-related work;

Leadership roles in student organizations academic programs campus initiatives or entrepreneurial ventures;

Internships in life sciences food policy biotechnology pharmaceuticals consulting communications public policy commercial organizations or startups.

Preferred Areas of Study

Public Health Health Policy Food Policy Regulatory Science;

Biology Chemistry Neuroscience Biotechnology Food Science Nutrition;

Political Science International Affairs Communications Economics or Business.

Bonus Points If You Have

Familiarity with pharmaceutical biotechnology medical device diagnostics food or agriculture industries;

Experience with Salesforce LinkedIn Sales Navigator ZoomInfo Outreach Apollo Gong Clay or similar GTM tools;

Experience using AI tools for prospecting research workflow automation or account intelligence;

Experience in startup entrepreneurial or other fast-paced high-growth environments.

We value our people.Clickherefor more on what we offer and whatitslike to work for POLITICO.

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About Us.

POLITICO illuminates the forces shaping global power. Since 2007 we have delivered intelligence thatanticipatestomorrows headlines not reports on yesterdays news. As politics has increasingly become the defining force of our era our work has never been more vital.

Cabinet secretaries and Ministers start their mornings with our analysis. CEOs shape strategy around our reporting. Advocacy leaders rely on our insights to move policy. We deliver the straightforward facts and clear-eyed analysis they need to navigate the most complex political landscape of our lifetimes.

Our 1100 publishing professionals across the worlds key democratic capitalsWashington Brussels London Paris Berlin Sacramento and New Yorkform the worlds premier politics and policy newsroom. We tell the story of how power really works by explaining who wields it and how they plan to exercise it connecting dots others miss and delivering scoops from sources othersdonteven know exist.

Innovation has always been a core tenet of our story. At launch we bet that depth would trump scale that talent would trump traffic and that politics would become central to modern 2011 we made another bet and launched POLITICO Pro to help decision-makers understand the business of government transforming both how they shape government action and the business of journalism itself.

These bets have made POLITICO the most successful digital news startup of its generation and the indispensable resource for leaders who shape the future. Today we are a rarity inmedia: a growing profitable and sustainable news organization.

POLITICO is a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE a family-owned transatlantic media company headquartered in Berlin and New York. Axel Springer is dedicated to shaping the future of journalism in the free world believing that a free and informed society is essential to democracy. The companys guiding principles - first articulated asThe Essentialsby founder Axel Springer in the aftermath of World War II - remain a cornerstone of the companys foundation today.Learn more about Axel Springer.

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