Career Opportunities
BuyerZone is the leading Internet company that helps business buyers and sellers find each other. As a top business purchasing matchmaker for small and large firms, our platform intelligently aligns buyers with relevant suppliers so everybody comes out a winner.
We help thousands of buyers every day, and have facilitated more than $13 billion worth of transactions since we launched our flagship Request For Quotes service in 1992. Our company has earned multiple accolades including being recognized as one of the Fastest 50 Growing Companies in the Boston area for five years in a row. Behind these impressive stats, we have kept a lively, start-up culture that thrives on innovation as we continue to create new products and services for the B2B lead generation and marketing space.
If "B2B lead generation and marketing" sounds stodgy, think again. BuyerZone is fast-paced, growth-oriented, energetic, fist-pump-in-the-air, smart, fun, imaginative, cooperative, customer-focused, hang-out-with-your-coworkers-worthy, and entrepreneurial.
People who are smart and hard-working but also know how to laugh and enjoy themselves and each other will click with the BuyerZone crew. Hardworking employees deserve pampering, so we enjoy year-round activities like Red Sox games, harbor cruises, and the weekly happy hours we affectionately call “Beer Thursdays.”
If you want to have a real impact in your workplace and are driven to succeed, we invite you to check us out.
Full Time Positions Available
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Affiliate Manager
Position Description:
BuyerZone is a vibrant Internet marketing company that is currently growing and is in need of an ambitious, driven person to spearhead our affiliate channels.
This is an ideal position for someone who is self-motivated and enjoys working in the online space. The Affiliate Manager will grow our affiliate program as well as develop partner relationships to generate traffic for our desired target audiences.
Outstanding candidates must have excellent verbal and written communication skills, exceptional client relationship talent, and a strong aptitude for organization and attention to detail. Previous experience that demonstrates your ability to identify, qualify, negotiate and close online affiliate relationships in targeted market areas is a big plus.
Responsibilities:
- Research/prospect for new affiliates in targeted market areas
- Contact affiliates, through cold calls or by using existing contact lists
- Qualify promising affiliates who would be compatible to promoting our offers
- Effectively identify a prospect's needs and offer quality solutions
- Negotiate payouts for affiliates on all campaigns in the network
- Manage partner needs including negotiations, setup and reporting
- Manage accounts on an ongoing basis; identify issues and encourage growth
- Work closely with the Online Marketing teams to maximize opportunities and ensure partner quality
- Participate in strategy development
- Monthly revenue responsibilities
Requirements:
- At least 2-3 years of experience in sales or marketing.
- Strong track record of meeting and exceeding sales targets
- Solid understanding of online advertising and marketing, including pricing structures
- Strong understanding of Organic and Paid Search
- Excellent attention to detail, highly organized and flexible
- Superior oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently as a motivated team player
- Ability to work collaboratively to ensure smooth execution of partnerships
- Ability to handle multiple priorities
- Proven track record of seeking, maintaining, growing online affiliates
- Strong ability to analyze data and extract key learning's
- Proficient with Microsoft Office products (Excel, Word, Outlook)
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Associate/Assistant Marketing Manager
Position Description:
BuyerZone is looking for an outstanding creative and analytical marketer who can help continue to grow our business.
As a member of our marketing team, you’ll have your hands in many key areas of our business: attracting and retaining both buyers and sellers of business products and services through a variety of channels, mediums and strategies.
We’re looking for a rock star: someone who is smart, inquisitive and focused on success, and of course – is a great team player.
Strong candidates will have 2 to 3 years of professional experience in a marketing role – with understanding of both online and offline marketing. We’re looking for someone who is as comfortable writing and conceptualizing an email campaign as they are digging into numbers and calculating ROI.
Responsibilities:
- Work cross-functionally with many groups, but especially with our sales leaders and sales managers to support their selling needs by helping to attract, nurture, close and ultimately keep our seller clients
- Support our buyer acquisition and retention activities mainly though email marketing and website presentation/experience so we build lasting relationships
- Brainstorm, design (with a little help from our web developers) and execute successful marketing campaigns to both buyers and sellers and also track, interpret and report on results
- Write polished, snappy business copy for emails, collateral and our website
- Work with partners, affiliates and publishers to maximize relationships
- Help us explore and attack Web 2.0 social media tools like blogs, Twitter and LinkedIn to help enhance our business
Requirements:
- 2-3 years of professional experience in a marketing role
- B.A. or B.S required, ideally with a marketing or business focus
- Smart, high-energy person with a proven track record and willing to roll up the proverbial sleeves
- Outstanding attention to detail, communication and project management/organization skills
- Strong copywriting ability, especially writing to a primarily B2B crowd
- Analytically-minded person who welcomes the fact that marketing has both a creative and a numbers side (and who doesn’t view Microsoft Excel as a foe)
- An appreciation for a test and measure atmosphere with a clear ROI focus
- Experience with email marketing and familiarity with direct mail, whitepapers, collateral development and online/affiliate marketing
- Exceptional collaboration skills not just amongst marketing and sales but with technical folks, customer-facing team members and even management
- Confident, results-driven individual who likes to work hard and play hard but who cares about their work making a real difference
- A cover letter is not required but recommended.
If you think you want to join the band (you know, keeping the rockstar analogy going), apply today!
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Customer Care Representative
Position Description:
BuyerZone.com, the leading online marketplace for business purchasing, is seeking a Customer Care Representative to play a key role in helping continue its record growth pace.
In this position, you will handle customer calls in a call center environment. You will provide top notch customer support and help our clients achieve success with the BuyerZone program. You will educate customers on BuyerZone’s offerings by positioning and aligning products and services within the context of the customer’s interest. Help us help businesses purchase and sell.
Ideal candidate is someone who thrives in a fast-paced, positive team environment, is able to work individually and as a team member to solve problems.
Responsibilities:
- Client management and support via phone and email
- Work closely with sales team to provide high level of customer satisfaction
- Educate clients regarding BuyerZone products and programs
- Help to refine client profiles to ensure optimal success
- Help purchasers submit product requests to appropriate suppliers
- Validate customer requests
- Utilize the internet to research and obtain accurate data
Requirements:
- 1-2 years of previous customer service experience
- Excellent knowledge of Internet navigation
- Ability/Willingness to build relationship with customers
- Ability to analyze customer needs…analyze situations and act accordingly
- Think clearly and act quickly
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Able to work under pressure and change priorities while working with interruptions
- Self-motivated, stress and pressure resistant, as well as a quick learner
- Positive, upbeat, and professional attitude with customers and co-workers
- Strong decision-making and organizational skills
- Detail oriented team player with superior follow through
- Great listening and negotiation skills
- High energy, great attitude
- B.A./B.S. not required, but preferred
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Product Manager
BuyerZone.com, the leading online marketplace for business purchasing, is seeking a product manager to manage a portfolio of core RFQ (Request for Quotes) business areas and oversee development of new markets and applications for its lead generation service - including development of new domestic categories and international opportunity assessment and management.
As a product manager, you will have P&L ownership over a portfolio that will include managing and expanding existing BuyerZone categories and pursuing financial growth via launching and developing new RFQ categories and services. You will also have direct ownership over a segment of the RFQ product that extends beyond your specific business area and which will impact the entire BuyerZone service. This highly cross-functional position is an outstanding opportunity for a smart, energetic, independent thinking person with a strong ability to successfully lead projects.
Responsibilities:
- P&L responsibility for new and existing RFQ categories, including localized domestic categories and international development
- Craft product strategy and define specifications for portfolio categories and the RFQ service overall
- Identify, research, & evaluate new category opportunities
- Lead development of market entry strategies
- Develop and manage online marketing programs
- Identify and implement activities and process improvements to speed and grow new category efforts
- Identify and approach business development prospects
- Analyze effectiveness of new categories, including results for BuyerZone and quality for category users and supplier partners
- Work with other departments across the company to support development, project management, launch/execution and follow-on analysis of expansion efforts
- Conduct ad hoc strategy and analysis projects
Required Skill Set:
- 3-6 yrs relevant experience for an Internet/online marketing company
- Roll-up-the-sleeves attitude – proven ability to move quickly, get hands dirty and execute successfully
- Proven ability to work with groups and lead teams from conception to execution
- Strong attention to detail
- Creative, strategic, on-your-feet quick thinker
- Problem solver, analytical
- Strong written and verbal communicator
- Ability to juggle multiple projects at one time with relative independence
- Proactive, creative, high-energy, self-motivator, self-starter
- Competitive spirit and collaborative work approach
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About BuyerZone
Join the company that has been named one of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in New England for five consecutive years. BuyerZone is the leading online marketplace for business purchasing and has facilitated more than $5 billion in purchasing transactions over the last three years. BuyerZone makes it possible for small to large sized companies to find great suppliers for the products and services they need to run their business.
BuyerZone is part of the Reed Elsevier family, which also owns Lexis-Nexis, Variety, Reed Business Information and North America’s leading business publications.
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Forward resumes for full time positions to: jobs@buyerzone.com
Attn: Michelle Misuraca, Human Resources Manager
Human Resources
BuyerZone
225 Wyman Street
Waltham, MA 02451
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