Writing a business development manager resume

Everything below is counted from 1,845 live business development managerpostings, taken from employers’ own career pages rather than a job board. Nothing here is advice about what usually works. It is what these specific postings say.

Open roles: 1,845
Employers: 660
Remote: 21%
Typical pay: $80k–179k
Verified live (7d): 1,726

What they ask for

Counted across 850 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

Customer Relationship Management63%
Microsoft Excel20%
LinkedIn13%
Microsoft PowerPoint11%
Microsoft Outlook7%
Workday4%
LexisNexis4%
Enterprise Resource Planning2%
SAP2%
Instagram2%
SAP Business Intelligence2%
GDPR2%
Microsoft Azure1%
Amazon Web Services1%

This is a floor, not a ceiling: the reader behind it only counts terms it recognises, so a skill missing here means it was not matched, not that nobody wants it. Put what you actually have on the page.

Who is hiring right now

RELX Inc. Company31
Jobs for Humanity29
Yell Ltd26
DIVERSEY INC22
Black & Decker (U.S.) Inc.17
Hyphen Connect Limited17
SGS16
Avomind15
Tencent America LLC15
Uptalent.io15
QIMA14
Deliveroo14

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