BloomNation is searching for a Business Development/ Partnership Manager (BDM) to help support our incredible growth as we continue to expand the breadth of our Saas offering. Reporting to our Director of Sales, this role will lead initiatives to grow the BloomNation footprint across the US market, in floral and beyond.
The BDM will be both strategic and tactical, able to forge, manage, and optimize partnerships with major wholesalers and brands in the specialty retailer space. You will identify prospective partners, introduce our company and platform to them, nurture relationships, and ultimately sign and manage win-win business relationships with the leaders in our field. You will also be involved in managing our existing partnerships, including identifying ways to make them more successful for both parties.
Note - this is not a role where you are selling to a small business directly. This role is designed to hunt, negotiate and sign partnerships that will generate demand for our sales team through customer referrals, reseller partnerships, etc.
A successful candidate will be hungry, innovative, charismatic, organized and obsessed with leading demand-gen initiatives, as well as working in a highly collaborative environment with very high levels of autonomy. We like to give training, support goals and a budget - but let you deliver as you see fit.
As we scale and grow into 2025, this role would also be responsible for building a team of business development professionals, so leadership skills are a big plus.
More about us - Promenade
Promenade is a mission-driven company empowering local businesses with products and services that allow them to thrive online and offline. We build vertically-focused software catered to each industry we serve, leveling the playing field between the small business and large aggregators. Promenade was originally founded in 2011 as BloomNation, the nation’s premier network for local florists, disrupting the multi-billion dollar floral industry. After helping thousands of local florists across the country, we doubled down on our mission and began helping more small businesses who carried the same challenges of acquiring and retaining their own customers. Today, Promenade creates software for four industries - Floral (BloomNation), Food (Dig-in), Beverage (Swigg), and Breweries (Bevv). The company is based in Santa Monica, CA.
Additional highlights…
Backed by premier industry investors such as Andreessen Horowitz (AirBnB, Box, Facebook, Lyft, Twitter, etc.), Spark Capital (Tumblr, Upworthy, Warby Parker, etc.), and Crunch Fund (Square, Uber, etc.)
Named one of Entrepreneur’s “5 Sizzling Silicon Beach Startups to Watch”
Located one block away from the beach on the world-famous 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica
Why join Promenade?
If you want a front-row seat in seeing a company disrupt a massive industry and you love the idea of helping hardworking business owners that serve our local communities and neighborhoods, this is your place. At Promenade, everyone has a voice to create change and move the needle. No hierarchy, no bureaucracy, no politics...just real people working on solving real problems.