Business Development Representative

Job Description

Business Development Representative | Alignd

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Alignd, located in Chicago, IL. Alignd builds an AI-powered platform designed to modernize ingredient sourcing for food and consumer goods brands, offering smarter sourcing, automated ordering, and embedded credit. This role is a ground-floor opportunity to expand a proven European success into the USA market by building out the commercial team to match its ambition.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid, Chicago, IL
• Pay: $65000–$75000 yearly
• Mission: Own the outbound pipeline generation and precise qualification of scaling USA food and consumer goods brands.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Prospect: Identify and engage scaling USA food and consumer goods brands for new business development.
• Outreach: Conduct outreach across multiple channels, including phone, LinkedIn, email, and in-person industry events.
• Discover: Run discovery calls to understand operational pain, cashflow pressure, and supply chain challenges experienced by brands.
• Qualify: Precisely qualify potential leads based on identified pain points before handing them off to Account Executives.
• Inform: Provide real market intelligence and insights back to the Growth, Marketing, and Product teams.
• Shape: Join early enough to influence sales playbooks and territorial ownership as the business scales.

The Must-Haves
• Background: An early career professional with a commercially driven and consultative approach to sales.
• Experience: Demonstrated aptitude for outbound-led business development and a readiness to own an individual pipeline.
• Skills: Proficient in prospecting across phone, LinkedIn, and email; capable of leading discovery calls; precise lead qualification.
• Bonus: An entrepreneurial mindset with an eagerness to shape business strategies and grow into leadership within a scaling organization.