Field Sales & Business Development Representative

Job Title

Senior Marketing Specialist

Functional Title

Field Sales & Business Development Representative

Contract position State Location

VA - CHANTILLY, VA 20151 US (Primary)

Education

Bachelor's Level Degree

Job Type

Full-time

Job Description

Local Threads is a growing startup building an online marketplace for the businesses, organizations, and places that make communities feel like home. We partner with local restaurants, bars, coffee shops, gyms, marinas, shops, teams, and other community favorites to help them sell their official apparel online without having to manage inventory, fulfillment, or an e-commerce operation themselves.

For customers, Local Threads is a place to shop and represent the community staples they know and love, discover exclusive merchandise from places they may not have heard of yet, and feel good knowing every purchase supports a local business.

Local Threads is a subsidiary of Quantech Services. Payroll and benefits are administered through our parent company, Quantech Services.

We're looking for a motivated, creative, and outgoing Business Development & Client Success Representative to help expand Local Threads.

This is a unique opportunity to own the entire client lifecycle, from identifying and securing new business partnerships to developing products, building storefronts, and launching new clients on the Local Threads marketplace.

You'll spend time in local communities building relationships with business owners, introducing them to Local Threads, and bringing new partners on board. Once a partnership is established, you'll serve as the primary point of contact throughout onboarding, working directly with clients and our internal team to develop merchandise concepts, create product mockups, build their online storefronts, and prepare them for launch.

We're looking for someone who is equally excited about sales and the creative, operational work that goes into bringing a new business to life on our platform. You'll need to be comfortable managing multiple projects, taking initiative, and seeing opportunities through from start to finish.

As an early-stage company, Local Threads offers the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on how we grow. You'll have a voice in developing our sales strategies, improving our onboarding processes, identifying new markets, and helping shape the future of the business.

• Identify and prospect local businesses and organizations that would be strong partners for Local Threads.
• Conduct outreach through in-person visits, phone calls, email, social media, and community networking.
• Build relationships with business owners and decision-makers, communicate the value of Local Threads, and secure new partnerships.
• Manage an organized sales pipeline, documenting outreach activity, conversations, follow-ups, and partnership status.
• Independently manage opportunities from initial prospecting through partnership agreement.
• Identify creative ways to generate referrals, introductions, and new business opportunities.

• Own the onboarding process for newly signed clients, serving as their primary point of contact from partnership agreement through storefront launch.
• Collect and organize client logos, branding assets, product preferences, and other materials needed for onboarding.
• Collaborate with clients to develop merchandise concepts that reflect their business, brand, and audience.
• Create initial product mockups and work with the internal team to refine designs and develop merchandise offerings.
• Build and configure client storefronts on the Local Threads platform,…