Business Development Manager – Player-Coach

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About the role

  • Business Development Manager building TOOLBX’s outbound sales engine for building-supply distributors across Canada and the US. Coaching SDRs while booking qualified meetings and shaping sales playbooks.

Responsibilities

  • Build TOOLBX’s outbound prospecting function from the ground up
  • Cold call across all territories into lumber and building materials, hardware, plumbing, and PHCP distributors and buying groups across Canada and the US
  • Book qualified meetings for Account Executives
  • Run discovery-lite conversations and qualify prospects against the ideal customer profile
  • Write and test call scripts, voicemail and email cadences, objection handling, and qualification criteria
  • Define SDR targets, metrics, and ramp plans
  • Help determine hiring needs, recruit, onboard, and train initial SDRs
  • Run call reviews, role-plays, and weekly 1:1s while continuing to make calls
  • Coordinate with Account Executives on territories, lead handoff standards, and feedback loops
  • Partner with marketing on trade shows, webinars, campaigns, and messaging feedback
  • Share market insights with product, marketing, and leadership
  • Log calls, update records in HubSpot, and report on activity, connect rate, meetings booked, and pipeline sourced

Requirements

  • 3+ years of outbound B2B sales or business development experience (SDR, BDR, inside sales, or similar)
  • Record of meeting or beating activity and meetings-booked targets
  • Comfort making high volumes of cold calls every day
  • Strong discovery instincts and ability to qualify prospects
  • Experience building or improving scripts, cadences, or targeting processes
  • Desire to coach and develop others; prior mentoring, training, or managing experience is a plus
  • Comfort selling to owner-operated, relationship-driven businesses
  • Working fluency with a CRM and sales engagement tools such as HubSpot or Apollo
  • Discipline to maintain clean CRM data
  • Self-direction and comfort with remote-first, early-stage ambiguity
  • Bonus: experience in building materials, hardware, plumbing, PHCP, or wholesale distribution
  • Bonus: experience selling SaaS, ecommerce, payments, or ERP-adjacent software into distribution
  • Bonus: experience hiring, onboarding, or coaching SDRs or BDRs
  • Bonus: familiarity with HubSpot, Apollo, Gong, or similar sales tools

Benefits

  • Competitive benefits
  • Equity
  • Variable pay tied to meetings booked, pipeline sourced, and team results
  • On-target earnings of roughly CA 110,000–130,000

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

CA$80,000 - CA$90,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

ApolloERP

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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