Development At Jobs in Timonium, MD (NOW HIRING)

•  Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s degree in business administration, finance, economics, marketing, communications, public policy, city planning, or a related field preferred.
•  Minimum ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience in business attraction, economic development, sales, marketing, communications, or a closely related field
•  Minimum five (5) years leading teams, including managing managers, with a demonstrated ability to set unit goals and hold a team accountable to them
•  Demonstrated success building and converting a business development pipeline, or an equivalent record of measurable market-facing results
•  Strong brand, marketing, and media relations experience, including serving as a spokesperson or directing those who do
• Demonstrated effectiveness serving diverse business communities and markets, including small, minority-owned, and women-owned enterprises

• Experience with municipal government or quasi-governmental economic development organizations
• Experience with small business technical assistance, Main Street programs, or commercial corridor revitalization
• Understanding of entrepreneurship, venture capital, startup ecosystems, and the commercialization of arts and culture
• Familiarity with federal economic development and innovation funding programs (Commerce, EDA, SBA, MBDA, NSF)
• Experience in public-private partnership development

• Lead regional, national, and international business attraction — recruiting employers, investors, and expanding companies to Baltimore
• Build and manage a qualified pipeline of relocation and expansion prospects with defined conversion targets and a regular reporting cadence
• Position BDC as the single point of contact for investment in Baltimore City
• Represent Baltimore at industry conferences, trade shows, site selector forums, and national business networks, including those serving minority- and women-owned enterprises
• Develop international attraction initiatives, including outreach to immigrant-founded, export-ready, and foreign direct investment prospects
• Partner with the Chief Real Estate Officer and Chief Financial and Operating Officer to align attraction activity with available sites, incentives, and capital tools

• Oversee small business growth and retention strategies across the City.
• Make business retention and expansion visits, needs assessment, and follow-through systematic rather than episodic
• Connect small businesses to BDC’s capital, incentive, and technical assistance programs, and close gaps where products do not yet exist
• In coordination and partnership with the CSO and the Strategy Team, track and report outcomes: businesses retained and expanded, jobs supported, storefront occupancy, and revenue growth

• Own and extend BDC’s refreshed brand identity and messaging platform across all internal and external channels
• Maintain message discipline on BDC’s core positioning, including public investment rather than public subsidy, and BDC as the single point of contact for investment in Baltimore City
• Direct marketing strategy, campaign development, digital and social presence, web properties, and collateral
• Ensure brand consistency across programs, sub-brands, partner materials, and board- and Cityfacing communications

• Direct supervision of 18 FTEs across three units, including three vice presidents
• Management of a combined business attraction, marketing, and communications budget
• Oversight of external creative, public relations, media buying, and research vendors Senior spokesperson authority in coordination with the President & CEO

The Baltimore Development Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. BDC does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status in any of its activities or operations. We are committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.