Entry-Level Business Development Representative

About the Role

Bisnow is hiring an early-career sales professional to join its Commercial Real Estate advertising and event sponsorship team. In this position, you will help CRE clients grow their visibility and business through media partnerships and live networking experiences. The role offers a defined path toward Business Manager and reflects a strong focus on developing talent internally.

This is a hybrid role based in Philadelphia, with an expectation to work from the office 3 to 4 days each week at 230 S. Broad St. Candidates who have built relevant experience through internships, academic work, or early professional roles are encouraged to apply. The preferred start date is July 6, 2026.

Company Overview

Bisnow is a B2B media company focused on the commercial real estate sector. The business brings CRE professionals together through news coverage, events, marketing services, recruiting offerings, and sales tools designed to create measurable outcomes.

With more than 1.7 million subscribers and over 400 events each year across 47 markets in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands, the company combines broad reach with local market execution.

Role Summary

As a Business Development Representative, you will receive training across the products and solutions sold to the CRE market, then support the sales team in creating meetings, proposals, and contracts. Your routine will include learning, client meetings, and event attendance to build industry knowledge and relationships. The long-term objective of the role is to move into a Business Manager position and eventually manage your own portfolio of business.

Responsibilities

• Build and sustain relationships with marketing decision-makers across the target asset classes and market segments.
• Generate sponsorship revenue for events by researching prospects and confirming sponsor participation for both digital and in-person programs.
• Continuously source new business opportunities to strengthen the pipeline for senior sales leadership.
• Reach out to sponsorship prospects through phone and email, while also handling inbound leads.
• Support the event production team in shaping sponsor-friendly event programs that align with client interests.
• Contribute ideas for timely and relevant event topics based on market trends.
• Track and manage individual and team KPIs, aiming to meet or exceed daily, weekly, and monthly targets.
• Record daily activity in Salesforce CRM.
• Partner closely with the sales team to speed up the sales cycle and expand outreach into target accounts.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teammates to support the sponsorship, marketing, and financial performance of events.

Requirements

• 0 to 2 years of sales experience.
• Strong drive, quick thinking, and enthusiastic energy.
• Ability to work with an entrepreneurial mindset while staying disciplined, organized, ambitious, and humble.
• Capacity to learn quickly and adapt to newly launched digital and event offerings.
• Proven ability to perform well in team-based environments.
• Interest in moving into a client-facing sales role or a similar position.
• Genuine interest in commercial real estate.
• Strong curiosity about media and digital marketing solutions.
• Openness to feedback and constructive criticism.
• Comfort working in a fast-moving, high-energy, and frequently changing sales setting.
• Must be authorized to work full-time in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future.
• Bisnow will not sponsor employment-based visas for this position, including H1-B and other nonimmigrant visa types.
• Candidates must share the company values and culture, including curiosity, self-awareness, discipline, teamwork, communication, inclusivity, and accountability.

Perks and Benefits

• Competitive compensation package with uncapped monthly bonuses.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Maternity and paternity leave.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Flexible spending account.
• Dependent care account.
• Health savings account.
• Unlimited vacation time.
• 7 paid sick days.
• 9 paid holidays.
• Referral bonus program.
• Opportunity to work with driven, thoughtful, and collaborative colleagues in a low-bureaucracy environment.

Additional Information

The company values curiosity, self-awareness, courage, consistency, discipline, kindness, strong communication, accountability, and a team-first approach. It also emphasizes inclusivity and the active rejection of racism, gender bias, and other forms of inequality. Applicants should be prepared for a culture that expects effort, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Bisnow also notes that AI tools may be used to support parts of the hiring workflow, such as resume review or response assessment, but final hiring decisions are made by humans.