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Business Development Specialist jobs: 42 open roles

Open business development specialist jobs taken from employers’ own career sites and checked to still be open.

The market for business development specialist work

Every figure names its source. Skills and AI-skill shares describe the whole Sales function this title sits in. Outlook, pay and AI-use figures are for the government category “Sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel”, the closest occupation to this title.

Verified open business development specialist jobs
42

Source: NextChapter, checked against employer career sites, last 7 days.

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Employment outlook
Projected to grow 3% from 2025 to 2035 (about as fast as average).

Source: BLS Employment Projections, 2025–2035.

National median pay, all levels
$69,990

Source: BLS OEWS, 2025.

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Openings a year nationally, growth plus replacement
115,700

Source: BLS Employment Projections.

Sales openings that ask for AI skills
5%

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

Sales openings that are remote
12%

Source: NextChapter verified openings.

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Skills most often named in openings

  1. 1. crm13%
  2. 2. salesforce9%
  3. 3. excel8%
  4. 4. forecasting6%
  5. 5. quota6%
  6. 6. onboarding5%
  7. 7. powerpoint4%
  8. 8. procurement3%

AI skills worth building for this work

  1. 1. AI tools in daily work
  2. 2. Gen-AI assistants (ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude)
  3. 3. Prompt design
  4. 4. AI coding assistants
  5. 5. AI workflow automation
  6. 6. Automation platforms (Zapier, n8n, Power Automate)

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Where business development specialist jobs are

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Employers hiring business development specialists

  • FedEx 5
  • Ursa Major Technologies 2
  • Latham & Watkins 2
  • Brown & Brown 2
  • Gallagher 2
  • Gibson Dunn 2
  • Jensen Hughes 2
  • Top Echelon Network (recruiter member boards) 1
  • Cencora 1
  • A&O Shearman 1

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