Laminar Projects Hiring for Engaging Business Development Leader – USA at United States Full Time

Do you know the construction industry? Are you a natural problem solver and keen networker who thrives on building genuine, long-lasting relationships? Well look no further, this is the perfect job for you. We’re looking for someone to spearhead our business development efforts in a new region for us, North America. You will help us find clients and projects while establishing our presence in the region

You will be one of the frontline ambassadors for our growing, world-renowned consulting team. This is both an incredibly important and highly rewarding role in which you can make a huge impact. Sound good? Well read on.

(this will be a long write up but we like to give you all the details before you spend your time applying)

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We are Laminar Projects!

If you have already heard about us, you are probably reading this because you are tired of the typical old-fashioned and chaotic ways of doing things in construction. But in case you haven’t; we are a high-end construction project management consultancy and also a construction management tech developer. Improving construction strengthens the very foundation of human civilisation.

Watch our short film about it here https://rb.gy/tz51wp

As a consultancy, we are focused on genuinely upgrading the way construction projects are delivered. We bring control and clarity to projects using a pragmatic mix of the latest technology, our own processes, and a big dose of common sense.

We then take the deep understanding of the projects we work on and all of our spare revenue to develop construction management software products that anyone can use to deliver their projects better. Our tech team are building a full suite of products one module at a time – kind of like office 365 but for construction management.

Check out www.shape.construction, our construction management tech and watch this video about what we are doing here: http://y2u.be/tgi4hW3G_NY

The core of all this is our true secret sauce; people. We only recruit the very best both in capability and personality. We are deeply focused on designing a new type of organization that is optimised for the flourishing of the people in the team first and foremost. People that join us develop fast as a whole person in ways they never imagined.

This approach has allowed us to grow from just 2 people in 2017 to over 160 today and we are still very much at the beginning! Joining us isn’t just some “job”, it is a transformative educational experience. We challenge you to be your best self in all aspects of life.

Any role that you start with at Laminar should be seen only as a starting point. Our fast growth means that there are many diverse and interesting challenges available and it is up to you to guide yourself into whichever areas you are most interested in – we will enable it.

Get to know us better by watching a few of our videos here: https://rb.gy/tvakes

4 core values for a good life

We believe a life of human flourishing is all about meaningful relationships with others and challenging yourself to create a positive impact. So our values reflect the 4 levels of relationships that each of us has:

• Grow yourself – Your relationship with yourself
• Care about people – Your relationship with others around you
• Execute to greatness – Your relationship with your team
• Build civilisation – Your relationship with humanity and the world

This goes much deeper but for the sake of brevity, we will keep the summary version!

We enshrined our values in our vision:

We exist so that everyone in our team can thrive in a high-impact community that:

• Connects us with meaningful relationships
• Inspires us to develop ourselves to become better humans
• Empowers us to pursue our own learning adventures

We believe that, by first doing this, we can achieve the highest levels of value for the world.

And enable the achievement of our vision through our dual missions:

• To fully digitise the construction of human civilisation
• To create a new type of organisation that enables human flourishing while delivering a huge positive impact on society

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The Role

Purpose of the role

You will be expanding our global reach and supporting our growth through developing new business strategies, forming new relationships and ultimately winning us new projects and clients to work with in North America.

Team

Our Growth team is made up of our sales, marketing & video teams. Together, we tell the Laminar story to the world and make sure we are in the best possible position to continue establishing long-lasting relationships with new and existing customers. Your overall leader will be our Growth Director.

Your top 3 objectives

1. To build genuine relationships with our customers while guiding them through our buying process
2. To develop and execute innovative new business strategies that really work
3. To keep us two steps ahead of our competition through market insights & research

Your top 5 responsibilities

1. Ownership of several key market segments: you’ll have full autonomy as you oversee our end to end sales process for several key market segment areas, working closely with a range of our senior leaders to drive our business development efforts
2. Improve our processes and strategy: through providing ongoing feedback from your conversations with those in the field, development of new ideas and service offerings and consolidation of our best practice
3. Implement new things: Keep up to date with the latest in sales & marketing systems and techniques, making recommendations on what we should be doing to stay ahead of the curve
4. Expand your industry knowledge: Continuously develop your industry & market knowledge and help us identify target growth areas and develop our business plans
5. Develop everyone around you: Maximise the development of your team personally and professionally and educate our wider team and clients as well through sharing knowledge

Your Capabilities

You will be a natural effective communicator and influencer with excellent relationship building skills but also the aptitude to quickly understand complex problems through intelligent questioning and a sound understanding of the construction industry and building a b2b business.

Must-Have (The fundamentals)

• Mastery: An excellent overall knowledge of the construction industry, regional markets and the market research skills to perform deep-dive analyses and investigations that uncover intelligence to shape our sales and expansion strategies
• Communication: A confident and clear communicator who can build rapport with people from all backgrounds and at all business levels
• Leadership: You lead yourself proactively and lead others by asking the right questions and challenging them
• Impact: A track record of successfully managing a b2b service-based sales process from prospecting through to onboarding

Nice to Have (If you don’t have it now you will after joining)

• Mastery: An amazing bid writer with a high win rate when creating responses to RFP’s and tenders related to our services
• Communication: A true master in the art of influencing and persuasion with an extensive network in the construction and tech start-up industries
• Leadership: A proven leader/coach/developer of teams or teams of teams
• Impact: A track record of developing and executing new business strategies that have had huge business impact and improving internal processes beyond just sales

Laminar isn’t the place for you if any of the following is true:

• You want an easy, chilled-out role without much challenge
• You like to be the smartest person in the room
• You don’t like continuously receiving honest candid feedback
• You prefer to do your own thing rather than work with a team

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Salary and Benefits

Standard Stuff

• Paid Annual Leave 25 days + statutory Bank Holidays
• Flexible hours
• Pension & private health insurance
• IT Equipment
• All travel costs outside of your local area are covered

The Life-Changing Stuff

• Grow your whole self: Our leaders are more like coaches and one of our main objectives is to give 5 years’ worth of learning and development for every 1 year with us. You have a coach, mentor, well-being therapist and a development-orientated environment: That’s literally what our vision is all about and the primary reason Laminar exists. Check our coaching program here: http://y2u.be/beMKLDLa4qM
• Be surrounded by the best: We only hire and retain the very best people. You might be used to being the smartest in the room but that won’t be the case in Laminar. You will be surrounded by people you can learn from. We are 100% meritocratic so fast progression is the norm. You will be supported to excel in whichever areas you are most interested in! With Laminar, development is unbounded
• Long-term impact: We are focused on solving the biggest issues in construction project delivery in a way that can spread and outlast us
• A generous equity scheme: as a fast-growing consultancy as well as the fact we are building software this has a huge upside, particularly for people that stay with us through our growth

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Applying properly !!!Important!!!

We get thousands of applications so please write us a letter as part of your application explaining:

• Why do you want to join us?
• What do you think you bring to the team?

We aren’t a giant faceless corporation; we really care about the people who want to join our team so all letters will be read thoroughly.

After that, we will reach out to you to schedule a casual conversation to help you to know us a bit better and tell us a bit about yourself.

After that, we will schedule a couple of technical assessments to understand what your level of capability is based on our own development matrix. This is to ensure that when you join you are starting at the right level of responsibility based on your capability.