Business Development Executive - Canada
At a glance
Mid-level Business Development role at Atos. Mississauga.
Pay not stated
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What you'll do
- Find and approach new prospects, then open early conversations around their business problems
- Screen opportunities for buyer, budget, timing, and urgency before accepting them into pipeline
- Build credible, outcome-led conversations with senior executives and targeted accounts
- Bring in partners, advisors, alliances, and internal specialists to support access and co-selling
- Keep CRM records accurate, hand over qualified deals to Sales, and review next steps weekly
What you bring
- At least three years of success generating new business from previously untouched prospects
- At least three years building pipelines that Sales accepts as viable and winnable
- Confidence speaking with senior executives and managing stakeholders throughout client engagement
- A qualification discipline that includes rejecting opportunities without a credible path forward
- Comfort working toward targets, measured by outcomes, with resilience and personal drive
Who this fits
This role suits a competitive, persistent business developer who prefers opening new accounts over farming existing ones. You should be comfortable with ambiguity, executive conversations, strict qualification, and outcome-based targets. The position is based in Mississauga, Canada.
From the employer
About the Company
Atos Group is a global leader in digital transformation with c. 67,000 employees and annual revenue of c. €10 billion, operating in 61 countries under two brands — Atos for services and Eviden for products. European number one in cybersecurity, cloud and high performance computing, Atos Group is committed to a secure and decarbonized future and provides tailored AI-powered, end-to-end solutions for all industries. Atos Group is the brand under which Atos SE (Societies Europaea) operates. Atos SE is listed on Euronext Paris. The purpose of Atos Group is to help design the future of the information space. Its expertise and services support the development of knowledge, education and research in a multicultural approach and contribute to the development of scientific and technological excellence. Across the world, the Group enables its customers and employees, and members of societies at large to live, work and develop sustainably, in a safe and secure information space.
About the Role
We are looking for a pure hunter—someone who thrives on opening doors, creating momentum, and turning ambiguity into qualified opportunities. This role is focused on net-new pipeline creation, not account farming or order taking. You will be successful if you are naturally competitive, confident engaging senior executives, disciplined about qualification, and energized by targets—not intimidated by them.
Responsibilities
- Proactively identify, pursue, and engage net-new prospects
- Lead early discovery conversations to validate real business problems
- Qualify opportunities against clear criteria (buyer, budget, timing, urgency)
- Create sales-accepted, winnable pipeline—not inflated activity
- Target accounts aligned to defined industry buying motions
- Lead conversations with relevance, insight, and commercial confidence
- Position the firm based on outcomes, not product features
- Engage partners early to accelerate credibility and access
- Participate in joint account mapping and co-selling motions
- Leverage advisors, alliances, and internal experts strategically
- Hand off only fully qualified opportunities to Sales
- Maintain clean CRM hygiene and pipeline integrity
- Participate in weekly pipeline reviews with clear next steps
Qualifications
- Proven success in net-new business development
- Strong executive presence and verbal confidence
- Create sales-accepted, winnable pipeline
- Disciplined qualification mindset—knows when to walk away
- High energy, resilience, and personal drive
- Comfortable working targets and being measured on outcomes
Required Skills
- 3+ years of proven success in net-new business development
- 3+ years of experience creating sales-accepted, winnable pipelines
- Experience engaging senior executives with verbal confidence
- Excellent stakeholder management and client engagement skills.
- Sales Support, B2B Marketing, Enterprise Customer Intelligence, Business Development, Presentation Skills,
Preferred Skills
Here at Atos, diversity and inclusion are embedded in our DNA. Read more about our commitment to a fair work environment for all. Atos is a recognized leader in its industry across Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) criteria. Find out more on our CSR commitment.
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