Manager, Strategic Business Development

  • Montreal (Province of Quebec, Canada)
  • Business Development
  • Full-time
  • Hybrid
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Turn strategic account priorities into meaningful business opportunities.

What does it take to turn a strong account strategy into meaningful engagement with the right stakeholders? At Coveo, we're looking for a Manager, Strategic Business Development to bridge Sales strategy and business development execution, ensuring our most strategic accounts receive the focus, expertise, and coordination they deserve.

As a trusted partner to Sales and Business Development leadership, you'll guide Senior Sales Development Representatives, strengthen collaboration with Account Executives, and contribute directly to high-priority opportunities. Your impact will come from connecting people, sharpening execution, and making successful approaches repeatable.

As our Manager, Strategic Business Development, you will:

  • Partner with Sales and Business Development leadership to identify, prioritize, and coordinate strategic assignments, ensuring resources are focused on the highest-impact accounts and opportunities.
  • Translate Account Executives' account strategies into actionable prospecting and stakeholder engagement plans, helping SDRs navigate complex accounts effectively.
  • Coach Senior SDRs on account mapping, multithreading, personalized outreach, and complex prospect conversations, strengthening their strategic prospecting capabilities.
  • Facilitate regular alignment sessions between Account Executives and Senior SDRs to clarify priorities, exchange account intelligence, and continuously improve collaboration.
  • Maintain a reduced portfolio of strategic accounts, directly supporting targeted opportunities and partner-led initiatives while sharing market insights and engagement trends with Sales.
  • Monitor the effectiveness of strategic assignments, identify successful approaches, and turn insights into repeatable practices and enablement initiatives.

Here is what will qualify you for the role:

  • Solid experience in business development, sales development, or strategic account prospecting within a business-to-business environment.
  • Strong understanding of complex sales cycles, account-based prospecting strategies, and multistakeholder engagement.
  • Demonstrated ability to coach experienced sales development professionals, influence without direct authority, and build trusted relationships across teams.
  • Excellent communication, analytical, and organizational skills, with the ability to navigate competing priorities and translate strategy into actionable plans.

What will make you stand out:

  • Experience working closely with enterprise Account Executives on complex, high-value opportunities.
  • A track record of improving collaboration between Sales and Business Development teams.
  • Experience developing prospecting playbooks, coaching frameworks, or enablement initiatives that improve execution.
  • Familiarity with partner-led sales motions and using engagement data to identify opportunities for improvement.

Do you think you can bring this role to life? Send us your application, we want to hear from you!

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Coveo is a Quebec-based company, pioneer in AI-powered search and recommendations. Coveo uses AI technologies and intelligent search to personalize every digital experience for customers, partners, dealers, and employees. Coveo combines unified content, unified interactions behavioral data and machine learning to deliver relevant information and recommendations across every business interaction, making websites, e-commerce, contact centers and intranets efficient, effortless, content-rich, thus boosting conversion.

If it were easy, someone else would have done it. All of our colleagues at Coveo find the drive to continuously seek new challenges and test roads no one else has ever explored. This ethos has allowed us to become a world leader in an innovative industry and to create a collaborative, diverse and trusting place to work filled with amazingly talented and passionate people. We love a good challenge, and we never say no to an opportunity to learn and develop new cutting-edge skills. Discover our values here

In-person
This role requires you to be in the office full-time, whether it be at our Quebec, Montreal, Weert, or London locations. Our modern infrastructures are designed to enhance cross-team collaboration and promote overall well-being.

Hybrid
Our offices in Quebec City, Montreal, London and Weert are designed to foster collaboration and your well-being. We gather there on our pillar days two times a week to strengthen in-person interactions and encourage creativity, all while providing you with the flexibility of a hybrid environment.

Remote
We hire from all over the world because the diversity of backgrounds fuels our continuous innovation. Our benefits will enable you to work comfortably from home, but you may be required to travel to attend our in-person team-building events.

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