Business Development Associate

Job Overview As the Business Development Associate (BDA), you will be responsible for driving Financial Advisor lead flow to LPL's Advisor Recruiting team in order to increase sales.Primary prospecting will be phone‑based (cold‑calling) with supplemental efforts including digital means such as email campaigns and social media outreach.Responsibilities Prospect financial advisors to gauge or create interest in meeting with a LPL recruiter.Use the news cycle, territory makeup, and direction of recruiters or leaders to execute on weekly prospecting campaigns.Use independent judgment to qualify a lead, determining if it should be introduced to the pipeline by presenting it to the Internal Regional Director or Field Regional Director.Make 100 outreaches per day – primarily cold calls, followed by individual emails and social media outreach (LinkedIn).Utilize Salesforce.com to track individual KPIs and understand the impact of lead flow on the territory funnel and results.Develop the skill set, knowledge base, and industry experience required to qualify for the next‑level opportunity as an Internal Regional Director.Requirements Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, or related fields.Ability to communicate effectively with leadership, field recruiting professionals, and internal recruiters.Must be in office three days a week (Tuesday–Thursday).Core competencies: highly motivated and resilient in achieving sales targets consistently.Ability to quickly build rapport, primarily via phone‑based communication.Comfortable with some travel, two times per year for training.Experience with MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Salesforce, and MS Outlook.Experience or understanding of broker/dealers, advisory, finance, or sales principles.Compensation & Benefits Pay includes a base salary and potential sales incentive compensation based on the applicable incentive plan. The base salary is determined by factors such as skill, experience, education, peer comparisons, performance, and geographic location. Incentives are contingent upon achieving established goals.LPL Total Rewards is competitive and includes 401(k) matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more.Legal Principals only. EOE.#J-18808-Ljbffr