This position supports the Chief Business Development Officer and includes coordination of a broad range of activities that help to advance the organization’s aggressive business development priorities which include an emphasis on existing business retention/expansion and assistance with new business attraction. The Business Development Manager assists existing businesses in maintaining their competitive positions, promotes workforce development partnerships, maintains a comprehensive knowledge of key community assets and resources, and cultivates positive relationships with private business, community organizations, city/county public staff and state, local and/or regional partner economic development organizations, as well as FloridaWest and Pensacola-Escambia Promotion and Development Commission (PEDC) board members.
