Business Development Associate

Business Development Associate

SAP Consulting | Entry-Level | Full-Time | Onsite – Lisle, IL

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ASAR Digital is looking for a motivated, curious, and ambitious Business Development Associate to join our growing team in Lisle, Illinois.

This is an entry-level opportunity designed for a recent college graduate who wants to build a career in business development, technology sales, consulting, or enterprise software. You do not need previous SAP experience—we'll help you learn the technology, our solutions, and how enterprise technology sales works.

As a Business Development Associate, you'll play an important role in ASAR's growth. Working closely with our Demand Generation Manager and experienced business and technology leaders, you'll research prospective companies, identify decision-makers, conduct direct outreach, qualify potential opportunities, and help build our sales pipeline.

This isn't a role where you'll spend your first year watching from the sidelines. You'll have the opportunity to contribute, learn, and gain hands-on experience from the start.

What You'll Do

Research prospective customers: Identify companies that may benefit from ASAR's SAP consulting, implementation, and technology services.

Find the right people: Identify and research decision-makers and influencers across IT, Finance, Operations, Procurement, HR, and executive leadership.

Identify business opportunities: Look for signals such as ERP modernization, SAP S/4HANA migrations, cloud transformation, acquisitions, company growth, leadership changes, and other digital transformation initiatives.

Conduct direct outreach: Connect with prospective customers through phone calls, email, LinkedIn, and other professional channels to introduce ASAR and generate qualified conversations.

Qualify prospects: Learn about prospective customers' business challenges, technology environments, initiatives, and timing to determine whether there may be an opportunity for ASAR to help.

Coordinate meetings: Schedule qualified introductory conversations with ASAR's senior sales and consulting professionals.

Support outbound campaigns: Work alongside the Demand Generation Manager on targeted campaigns, messaging, prospecting strategies, and follow-up activities.

Manage the pipeline: Maintain accurate prospect information, research, outreach activity, follow-ups, and lead status within our CRM.

Build account intelligence: Prepare concise company and prospect research so our sales and consulting teams are prepared for customer conversations.

What We're Looking For

Recent college or university graduate

Interest in business development, sales, technology, consulting, marketing, or enterprise software

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Strong research and analytical abilities

Comfortable communicating professionally by phone, email, LinkedIn, and virtual meetings

Willing and motivated to conduct cold calling and direct prospecting as a regular part of the role

Organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities

Curious and able to learn new technology and business concepts

Self-motivated, dependable, coachable, and comfortable working toward measurable goals

Able to work onsite in Lisle, Illinois

Prior SAP experience is not required.

What You'll Learn

This position provides hands-on exposure to SAP consulting, Cloud ERP and S/4HANA transformation, enterprise technology, B2B sales, prospect qualification, CRM and pipeline management, campaign execution, and professional consulting services.

You'll work closely with experienced team members while learning how companies evaluate major technology investments and how a consulting organization develops new customer relationships.

As your knowledge and performance grow, you'll have opportunities to take on broader responsibilities within business development and the sales process.

What Success Looks Like

At ASAR, we're interested in more than the number of calls you make or emails you send. We care about the quality of the opportunities you uncover.

You'll learn how to identify the right organizations, find the right decision-makers, uncover meaningful business or technology needs, conduct thoughtful research, and give our sales team a compelling reason to pursue an opportunity.

Why ASAR Digital?

ASAR Digital is an SAP consulting and technology company helping organizations transform how they operate and serve their customers. Our teams work across SAP Cloud ERP, Customer Experience, BTP, integrations, data, analytics, AI, and emerging enterprise technologies.

As part of a growing organization, you'll have opportunities to work directly with experienced professionals and company leadership, gain exposure to real customer challenges, develop specialized technology and business knowledge, and make a visible contribution early in your career.

If you're competitive, curious, eager to learn, and excited by the idea of building relationships and creating new business opportunities, we'd love to meet you.