Business Development Associate Scottsdale, AZ

Business Development Associate

 

 

Job ID: Job-2545

location:       Scottsdale, AZ

Jobtype:        Permanent

Rate:   $30K - $60K

 

Description:   

• Generate client leads through direct marketing, cold & warm calling and e-mail, based on assigned targets.

• Identify and qualify key decision-makers. Typically these are Treasurers, CFOs, and Assistant Treasurers.

• Schedule appointments with them from database of qualified prospects and create new opportunities.

• Consult with prospects to identify client needs by asking great questions about financial topics.

• Understand the prospect’s business environment and communicate the firm's value proposition.

• Learn to craft counter positions to objections encountered with warm & cold prospects

• Collaborate with field sales reps.

• Assistance with marketing event registration.

 

Desired Skills & Experience

• Proven success achieving sales goals.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and work experience. MBA is a plus.

• Ability to source, identify, and develop new sales prospects.

• Experience nurturing prospects for calls & meetings.

• A self-starter with the ability to learn in a fast-paced environment.

• Ability to diagnose prospect needs and build relationships through a consultative approach.

• Excellent presentation, communication, writing, and listening skills.

• Ability to quickly build credibility with an executive level audience by having intelligent business conversations.

• Finance experience is a VERY STRONG plus.

• Proficient in the use of MS Office applications such as Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

• Prior experience using Salesforce is a plus.

 

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Senior Front End Web Developer Silicon Valley

Senior Front End Web Developer

 

 

Job ID: Job-2544

Job Title:      Senior Front End Web Developer

location:       Silicon Valley, CA

Jobtype:        Consultant

Rate:   $70 - $75 p/h

       

Required:

CSS, HTML, responsive websites, JavaScript, an eye for UI Design, a feel for UX, a desire to learn, and a love of working in an agile-ish environment.

 

Big plus if you have experience with:

Rails, Haml, Sass, Compass, Backbone.js, CoffeeScript, Ajax, Handlebars.js, Underscore.js, Highcharts.js, message busses (postal.js), state machines (machina.js).

 

About the Role:

We are looking for an exceptional engineer to join our front-end team to help build products powered by our technology platform. We have consumer facing products that extend from api's, widgets, mobile and a lot more. You will be part of the small team that is responsible for building the best in class consumer facing products and evolution of our product. If you consider yourself a strong Front End Developer with an eye for design then you are the candidate we want!

 

What you need for this position:

Strong with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with a deep understanding of how to make everything work harmoniously together

5+ years experience writing javascript, CSS, and HTML

Strong command of web standards, CSS-based design, cross-browser compatibility with progressive enhancement

You understand browser performance and how to prevent problems from arising and how to fix them if they do

Practical knowledge of REST and working with APIs, developing APIs. etc.

Implement new features and optimize existing ones

Work closely with product managers, back-end engineers and operations

Knowledgeable foundation in interaction design principles

Ability to work through product ideas by fast prototyping and quick iterations

PASSIONATE about realizing great design through code. You have opinions about the products you work on and aren't afraid to defend them / be criticized / be wrong. You know how to be confident and consultative at the same time

Ability to go off-book in JavaScript. You were doing front-end web development well before there were good JavaScript libraries out there (5+ years), so you are comfortable hand rolling the last 10% in JavaScript when that's the right thing to do

Experience writing code that interacts with a large, complex back end and working with talented server engineers - you need to be able to at least read complex server side code if not write it well. You must have some experience working in a server side scripting language, it would be great if it was Ruby since it’s our back-end language of choice

Experience with mobile application development a plus (Android, iOS, Windows 8)

 

What you'll be doing:

You enjoy pair programming, and understand that in the long run it makes for cleaner code, fewer bugs and better teams

Bridge the gap between design and technology, working with visual and interaction designers to implement and maintain pixel perfect user interfaces

Code. Make browsers SUBMIT to your will. You know best practices cold and are on top of bleeding edge techniques. Relish in the role of being a front-end specialist. We will look to you to solve hard problems and make our front-end more reliable, predictable, elegant and awesome

Share. We have weekly lunch-and-learns. We want you to share your expertise, making everyone else better and facilitating constant learning

Take pride in the quality of your work, continuously deploying test-driven code, delighting customers and making a difference every day

 

PLEASE QUOTE YOUR BEST RATE

 

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Accountant

Accountant

 

 

Job ID: Job-2543

location:       West Des Moines, IA

Jobtype:        Permanent

Rate:   $60K - $65K

        

Qualifications

2+ years accounting experience.

- BA/BS in Accounting or business related field

- 2+ years of SEC and Regulatory reporting experience

- 2+ years of public accounting experience

- 2+ years of control environment process analysis

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Strong teamwork and organizational skills

- High level of accuracy and attention to detail

- Strong leadership qualities

- Strong problem solving and analytical skills

- Ability to build strong partnering relationships

- Strong knowledge of Excel

 

Preferred Skills

- CPA/MACC/MBA

- 5+ years of accounting experience

- 2+ years of mortgage industry experience

- Strong knowledge of Access, Essbase, IRIS and Eagle

 

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Research and Development Licensing/New Ventures Manager Morrisville, NC

Research and Development Licensing/New Ventures Manager

 

 

Job ID: Job-2541

location:       Morrisville, NC

Jobtype:        Permanent

Rate:   160K - $180K +bonus

 

Description:   

• Degree (PhD with minimum of 8 years of asset or investment management experience, MBA with minimum of 12 years of asset or investment management experience, or BS with minimum of 14 years of asset or investment management experience)

 

• Broad knowledge and professional experience in asset management, licensing practices, preferably with investment bank or venture capital experience, preferred field of expertise Agriculture (at least 12 years)

 

• Excellent understanding of asset management including valuation, transaction, and innovation management processes

 

• Outstanding experience in managing complex strategic portfolios and projects

 

• Proven experience to work with various stakeholders

 

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, excellent presentation skills

 

• Outstanding organization skills, negotiating and influencing skills

 

• Relationship management skills

 

• Solution / goal and action oriented.

 

 

• Oversee and ensure execution for the transaction (in/out) of R&D technology (prior proof of commercial concept) for all indications by preparing the relevant information to drive internal decision and by negotiating jointly or in liaison with the respective  functions (Business Development and Licensing (BD&L), Legal, IP) with third party

 

• Develop, oversee and deliver on the implementation plan for Venture Capital investment by identifying and assessing opportunities, preparing the relevant information to drive internal decision

 

• Ensure operational readiness, alignment of activities and execution oversight to deliver on the implementation plan for R&D licensing by:

-Planning, identifying and fostering interaction with the private sector innovation networks

-Improving processes for executing an agreed deal flow timelines

-Coordinating with relevant functions the valuation of R&D technology, expectations/risks

-Reporting on execution of the implementation plan

 

• Ensure operational readiness, alignment of activities and Execution oversight to deliver on the implementation plan for Venture Capital Investment by:

 

-Planning, identifying and fostering interaction with the Venture Capital community

 

-Establishing and improving processes in liaison with other business units for executing an agreed implementation plan

 

-Establishing a reliant metrics monitoring process/system (KPIs) and track metrics on Venture Capital investments-Coordinating budget/resource/timing expectations/risks

-Organizing and/or attending regular meetings with key stakeholders

 

• Lead the R&D licensing extended team activities and act as coach

For team members up to Best in Class norms and model successful management behaviors including people development. Establish and ensure that relevant governance and best practices do prevent any Intellectual Property contamination and risks to R&D

 

• Act as liaison manager with the Venture Capital and investment community in the field of Agriculture and Biotech and represent the strategic interest

 

• Leverage synergy across the organization and corporate to optimize the implementation of Licensing and Venture Capital investment by exchanging best practices, common processes, information management, etc.

 

• Ensure effective communication within the division and the corporate group through management excellence by organizing regular meetings, reporting and pro-actively resolving any issues

 

Email resume in Word to JeffAltman@TheBigGameHunter.us. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. NOTE: WE WILL ONLY RESPOND IF YOUR RESUME APPEARS TO FIT A ROLE

 

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