Business Development Lead - US commercial… at Scalesource · SG

Description

This job is open to candidates working remotely from anywhere

Schedule: You must be available during core U.S. business hours, especially when coordinating with onsite sales, estimators, property managers, and field leadership. Exact schedule will be discussed during the interview process

Compensation: 1250 USD/month base compensation. This role also includes performance compensation designed to allow strong performers to earn an additional 2000+ USD/month (more info below)

Remote via ScaleSource | Commercial Landscaping | B2B Hunter Role

About Us

We are building a serious commercial landscaping company serving property managers, HOAs, multifamily communities, retail centers, office parks, banks, churches, schools, industrial properties, and other commercial accounts.

This is not a “wait for the phone to ring” business.

We are going after commercial maintenance contracts aggressively and professionally. We want to know who owns the property, who manages it, when the current landscape contract renews, when the bid cycle opens, who the decision maker is, what they care about, and how we can get in front of them before everyone else does.

We are hiring a Commercial Landscaping Sales / Business Development Lead to help build and run that engine.

This is a remote role through ScaleSource, but it is not a passive admin role. This is a hunter seat.

We need someone who can generate leads, research prospects, identify decision makers, coordinate quote execution, follow up like crazy, and help create a repeatable commercial sales machine.

If you are looking for a slow, comfortable, “send a few emails and hope someone replies” role, this is not it.

If you are a true B2B hunter who likes building lists, finding decision makers, chasing opportunities, coordinating proposals, and creating pipeline, this could be a great fit.

The Big Picture

Commercial landscaping sales is a timing game, a relationship game, and a follow-up game.

Most properties already have a provider.

That means our job is to:

Find the right properties

Identify the right decision makers

Learn when their contracts renew

Understand their pain points

Get in front of them before bid season

Create opportunities even when they did not ask for one

Coordinate with our onsite sales team and estimators to get accurate quotes delivered fast

Follow up consistently until we win, lose, or know the next bid cycle

We are also building a cold quote system.

That means we will proactively identify commercial properties, estimate their maintenance contracts, and present a professional proposal or property maintenance review to the decision maker before they ask us for one.

This is our foot-in-the-door strategy.

We are not waiting around for RFPs like everyone else.

Role Mission

Your mission is to build a high-quality commercial maintenance sales pipeline and help turn that pipeline into signed contracts.

You will be responsible for identifying prospects, researching properties, finding decision makers, tracking bid cycles, coordinating with onsite sales and estimating, and making sure proposals are delivered within 72 hours or less after a quote request whenever possible.

This role is about activity, discipline, follow-up, and ownership.

You are not just helping with sales.

You are helping build the sales engine.

What You’ll Own

1. Prospecting and Lead Generation

You will be responsible for finding and organizing new commercial landscaping opportunities.

This includes:

Building targeted prospect lists by property type, location, ownership group, and management company

Identifying commercial properties that are strong fits for maintenance contracts

Researching property managers, owners, facility managers, HOA boards, asset managers, and other decision makers

Finding email addresses, phone numbers, LinkedIn profiles, company websites, and other contact information

Tracking current vendors when possible

Identifying when contracts are likely to renew or go out to bid

Finding RFPs, bid opportunities, public notices, property management contacts, and local commercial development activity

Adding clean, accurate information into our CRM or tracking system

This is not random list building.

This is targeted commercial hunting.

2. Decision Maker Research

You will need to find the actual humans who can make or influence decisions.

This includes identifying:

Property managers

Regional property managers

HOA managers

Facilities directors

Operations managers

Asset managers

Commercial real estate owners

Developers

General managers

Office managers for commercial properties

Municipal or institutional purchasing contacts when relevant

You should be able to answer:

Who manages this property?

Who owns it?

Who controls the budget?

Who is unhappy with their current provider?

Who should receive the first outreach?

Who should receive the follow-up?

Who else might influence the decision?

When does this property likely go out to bid?

If you cannot find the decision maker, you keep digging.

That is the job.

3. Outreach and Follow-Up

You will help drive outbound outreach and follow-up through email, phone, LinkedIn, CRM tasks, and coordination with our onsite team.

This includes:

Sending professional outbound messages

Making follow-up calls or coordinating calls when needed

Tracking every touchpoint

Following up aggressively without being weird or annoying

Building multi-touch outreach sequences

Keeping prospects warm before bid season

Re-engaging old prospects

Following up after quotes are sent

Helping move deals from prospect to lead to quote to closed/won or closed/lost

The fortune is in the follow-up.

A lot of people say that.

Most do not actually do it.

We need someone who does.

4. Quote Coordination and 72-Hour Proposal Standard

When a quote request comes in, speed matters.

You will coordinate with onsite sales, field leadership, and estimators to make sure proposals are completed and delivered quickly.

Our target is:

All requested proposals delivered within 72 hours or less whenever possible.

Your job is to help make sure that happens.

You will be responsible for:

Logging quote requests immediately

Confirming property details

Gathering photos, maps, measurements, notes, service scope, and client expectations

Coordinating with onsite sales or estimators for site review

Tracking who owns the estimate

Following up until the proposal is completed

Confirming the proposal was sent

Scheduling follow-up after delivery

Tracking quote status in the CRM

You do not get to say, “I sent it to the estimator.”

That is not ownership.

Ownership means it gets tracked until it is delivered.

5. Cold Quote System

We want to build a system where we proactively quote strong-fit commercial properties before they ask.

This will include:

Identifying properties that fit our ideal customer profile

Researching the property and likely decision maker

Coordinating with our estimator or onsite team to create a maintenance quote or property review

Helping prepare a professional “we already looked at your property” style outreach

Sending or coordinating the delivery of cold quotes

Coordinating with our onsite cold caller for drop-offs and site visits

Tracking follow-up until we get a conversation, a no, or a future bid date

Building a repeatable system that lets us produce cold quotes every week

This is a key part of the role.

We are not just asking, “Can we bid your property?”

We are showing up with value.

6. Coordination With Onsite Team

You will be remote, but you will work closely with our onsite team.

This may include:

Coordinating with onsite salespeople

Coordinating with estimators

Coordinating with our onsite cold caller doing drop-offs and site visits

Providing property lists for in-person visits

Preparing call/drop-off notes

Tracking who visited which property

Updating the CRM after site visits

Following up with prospects after onsite contact

Making sure the onsite team has what they need before they walk into a property

Remote does not mean disconnected.

This role needs to make the onsite team more dangerous.

In a good way.

7. CRM, Pipeline, and Reporting

You will be responsible for keeping sales activity clean, visible, and accountable.

This includes:

Updating all prospects, contacts, properties, notes, next steps, and follow-up dates

Tracking outreach activity

Tracking leads generated

Tracking quote requests

Tracking proposals sent

Tracking bid cycle dates

Tracking closed/won and closed/lost opportunities

Preparing weekly sales pipeline updates

Flagging stuck opportunities

Identifying which property types, messages, or sources are working best

If it is not in the CRM, it basically did not happen.

We need someone who gets that.

Weekly Activity Expectations

This is a hunter role. Activity matters.

The exact targets may adjust as the system improves, but the starting weekly expectations are aggressive:

150+ commercial properties researched or reviewed per week

75+ new qualified prospects added to the CRM per week

40+ new decision makers identified per week

100+ outbound touches per week through email, phone, LinkedIn, or coordinated onsite follow-up

25+ follow-up touches on existing prospects per week

15+ meaningful responses, conversations, bid cycle updates, or next-step confirmations pursued per week

10+ quote opportunities, bid cycle dates, or future proposal targets identified per week

7+ cold quote targets prepared per week

3+ cold quote packages coordinated per week

100% of requested proposals tracked until delivery

100% of requested proposals followed up on after delivery

Weekly sales pipeline report completed every week

This is not busywork.

The goal is signed commercial maintenance contracts.

But in sales, if the activity is weak, the results usually suck.

We are going to track both.

First 90-Day Expectations

By the end of the first 30 days, you should have:

Learned our services, ideal customer profile, property types, market, and sales process

Built or cleaned the starting CRM pipeline

Identified at least 300 qualified commercial prospects

Identified at least 125 decision makers

Built a bid cycle tracking system

Started outreach and follow-up sequences

Coordinated your first cold quote targets with the onsite team

Produced a weekly pipeline report that leadership can actually use

By the end of the first 60 days, you should have:

Added at least 600 qualified prospects to the pipeline

Identified at least 250 decision makers

Built a clear follow-up system by property type, property manager, and bid cycle

Coordinated at least 20 cold quote targets

Helped produce at least 10 cold quote packages

Identified at least 20 quote opportunities, bid cycle dates, or future proposal targets

Created consistent weekly reporting around outreach, quotes, follow-up, and next steps

By the end of the first 90 days, you should have:

Added at least 900 qualified prospects to the pipeline

Identified at least 400 decision makers

Helped generate at least 40 quote opportunities, bid cycle dates, or future proposal targets

Coordinated at least 30 cold quote packages

Built a repeatable outbound follow-up system

Helped create a clear commercial maintenance sales pipeline we can scale

The goal is simple:

Build a machine that helps us win commercial maintenance contracts.

Our Core Values and Mindset

1. Have Fun

Sales is hard. Building a business is hard. Commercial landscaping is not exactly champagne and yacht club stuff.

So we want people who can work hard, laugh, bring energy, and not make everything weird and miserable.

We are serious about results, but we do not need boring robots.

Bring personality. Bring energy. Bring a little humor. Just also bring results.

2. Try New Things Fast

We are going to test lists, messages, cold quote ideas, property types, follow-up sequences, drop-off strategies, email angles, call scripts, and whatever else helps us win.

We do not need someone who waits six months to test a better idea.

Try it. Track it. Learn from it. Improve it.

Fast.

3. Best in the World

This does not mean we think we are already the best in the world.

It means that is the standard we are chasing.

We want the best commercial landscaping sales engine in our market.

That means better research, better follow-up, better proposals, better communication, better speed, and better discipline than the other guys.

If “good enough” is your standard, this will probably annoy you.

4. Get the Work Done

Sales is not magic.

It is research, outreach, follow-up, CRM discipline, quote coordination, rejection, more follow-up, better questions, more research, and another round of outreach.

This role requires someone who will actually do the work.

Not talk about the work.

Not make excuses about the work.

Get it done.

5. Hold Accountability

We track what matters.

Prospects added. Decision makers found. Touches completed. Quotes generated. Proposals delivered. Follow-ups completed. Deals won. Deals lost. Next bid dates captured.

This is not because we love spreadsheets.

It is because accountability creates freedom, clarity, and results.

If accountability feels threatening, this is not the right seat.

Tools You May Use

You do not need to know all of these, but you need to be comfortable learning and using tools like:

Google Workspace

Google Sheets

CRM systems

HubSpot, Pipedrive, Monday.com, ClickUp, Jobber, Aspire, LMN, Service Autopilot, or similar platforms

LinkedIn

Apollo, ZoomInfo, Seamless, or similar prospecting tools

Google Maps

County property records

Commercial real estate websites

Property management company websites

Email sequencing tools

Loom or video update tools

Slack / WhatsApp / internal messaging tools

Zoom / Google Meet

Requirements

Required Qualifications

Please do not apply unless you meet these requirements.

7+ years of total professional experience

5+ years of B2B sales, business development, outbound prospecting, lead generation, appointment setting, sales development, or account development experience

3+ years selling to, researching, or supporting U.S.-based businesses or U.S.-based clients

3+ years of experience in commercial landscaping, property management, facility services, construction, field services, janitorial, pest control, security, exterior services, or another service-based B2B industry

2+ years in a role with weekly outbound activity targets

Proven experience managing 100+ outbound sales touches per week

Proven experience building prospect lists of 500+ contacts or companies

Proven experience identifying decision makers across multiple companies or properties

Proven experience using a CRM, spreadsheet, or sales pipeline system to track prospects, follow-ups, quotes, and deal status

Strong written and spoken English at a professional business level

Comfortable making calls, sending cold emails, using LinkedIn, and following up repeatedly

Comfortable coordinating with remote and onsite sales, estimating, and field teams

Able to work during core U.S. business hours

Able to manage high-volume prospecting without needing to be babysat

Strong enough commercially to understand property types, decision makers, contracts, bid cycles, and proposal follow-up

Preferred Qualifications

These are not required, but they are a big plus.

Direct experience in commercial landscaping sales, estimating support, or maintenance contract sales

Experience selling or supporting recurring maintenance contracts

Experience working with property managers, HOAs, multifamily properties, retail centers, office parks, or commercial real estate groups

Experience researching property ownership and management contacts

Experience with cold email campaigns or outbound sales sequences

Experience coordinating proposals or estimates

Experience using Google Maps, county property records, property management websites, LinkedIn, Apollo, ZoomInfo, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Monday.com, ClickUp, or similar tools

Experience supporting outside sales reps or field sales teams

Experience helping build a sales process from scratch

Experience tracking renewal dates, bid windows, RFPs, or contract cycles

Who This Role Is Perfect For

This role is perfect for someone who:

Likes the hunt

Enjoys finding decision makers

Is not scared of follow-up

Understands B2B service sales

Can build lists without needing every step explained

Knows the difference between activity and useful activity

Gets excited about building a pipeline from scratch

Can coordinate people without creating chaos

Has enough industry knowledge to know what a good commercial maintenance prospect looks like

Wants to be paid for real results

Who This Role Is NOT For

This role is not for someone who:

Wants inbound leads handed to them

Hates cold outreach

Gives up after one email

Needs to be told what to do every hour

Cannot keep a CRM clean

Does not understand B2B sales

Has never worked around service businesses, property management, commercial services, or field operations

Thinks “following up” means checking back once two weeks later

Is uncomfortable with aggressive weekly targets

Wants a safe admin role with a sales title

This is a hunter seat.

Benefits

Compensation

Base compensation is 1250 USD/month.

This role also includes performance compensation designed to allow strong performers to earn an additional 2000+ USD/month.

Commission / bonus structure:

50 USD bonus for each true qualified quote opportunity generated

1% commission on collected revenue for projects, contracts, or sales opportunities where you were meaningfully involved

Commission is paid on collected revenue, not just signed contracts.

To qualify for the 50 USD quote opportunity bonus, the opportunity must be a real commercial opportunity that includes:

A qualified commercial property

A real decision maker or clear path to decision maker

Confirmed interest, bid cycle, quote request, or legitimate reason for us to quote

Clear property details

Clean CRM notes

Next step documented

Acceptance by leadership, onsite sales, or estimating as a legitimate quote opportunity

Commission eligibility requires clean CRM notes, documented source, decision maker, follow-up history, proposal status, and your involvement in the opportunity.

We want this role to pay well for results.

But we are not paying for fake activity, messy notes, or “I think they might be interested.”

Track it. Move it. Help close it.

How to apply

When applying, you'll be asked a few questions. Specific, numbers-based answers are expected. This helps us filter the best candidates at early stages of the process. If you have the right experience and you put the effort, it will be noticed. Vague answers won't move forward.

A short video submission might be required at the right stage of the process.