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Business Development Associate

LPL Financial, San Diego, CA, United States


Job Overview As the Business Development Associate (BDA), you will be responsible for driving Financial Advisor lead flow to LPL’s Advisor Recruiting team in order to increase sales. This will be done through prospecting, lead qualification, and effective reporting. Primary prospecting efforts will be phone based (cold-calling) with supplemental efforts using digital means (email campaigns and social media).

Responsibilities

Prospect financial advisors to gauge/create interest in meeting with a LPL recruiter

Use the news cycle, territory makeup and direction of the recruiters/leaders to execute on weekly prospecting campaigns

Use independent judgement to qualify a lead, determining if the lead should be introduced to the pipeline by presenting to the Internal Regional Director or field Regional Director

100 outreaches per day – cold calls (primary), individual emails and social media outreaches (LinkedIn)

Utilize Salesforce.com to track individual KPIs and understand the impact of lead flow on territory funnel and results

Develop skillset, knowledge base and industry experience in order to qualify for next level opportunity as an Internal Regional Director.

What are we looking for? We want high-energy, strong collaborators who can deliver a world class sales experience. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast‑paced environment, are client focused, team oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Ability to communicate effectively with leadership, field recruiting professionals, and internal recruiters

Sales experience or similar related degree

Core Competencies

Highly motivated and resilient by achieving sales targets consistently

Ability to quickly build rapport, primarily via phone based communication

Comfortable with some travel, two times per year for training

Experience with MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Salesforce, MS Outlook

Experience or understanding of broker/dealers, advisory, finance or sales principals

Preferences

Must be in office 3 days a week (Tuesday - Thursday)

Pay Range $25.24-$42.07/hour

Equal Opportunity Employer. EOE.

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