Vervoe logo
Try it Now
Request Demo
Sales

Business Development Manager Skills Assessment

Assessment Category

Sales

Business Development Manager Skills Assessment

Assessment Details
Author
Vervoe
Questions
9
AudioTextVideo
Skills
3
NetworkingSalesStakeholder Management
Use Assessment Template
Assessment Summary
Business Development Managers are responsible for networking and relationship building with prospects and clients for the purpose of creating revenue opportunities. They partner with the technical team to develop proposals that align to the client’s objectives and requirements. This assessment contains 9 questions that test the candidate’s ability to network, identify prospects, pitch the business and stakeholder manage.
Skills tested in this assessment
The skills tested in this assessment for a Business Development Manager include their ability to network, how they identify prospects, how they pitch the business, tactics for negotiating and how they stakeholder manage. The questions should showcase their ability to sell the business to potential clients, problem solve issues clients have, prioritize clients that are more valuable to the business over others and think strategically.
What to test with this assessment
You can expect to learn whether the candidate can be relied upon to sell the business at events, identify appropriate prospects, how much they know about the industry and how well they negotiate. You’ll get a sense of their personality and charisma in the video questions, along with their ability to pitch. And you’ll see how they balance the business’ broader goals with the need to keep stakeholders happy.

About the Business Development Manager Skills Assessment

Want to hire the best Business Development Manager to help your business? Use our expert Business Development Manager skills test to hire the best person and never make another bad hire.

The role of a Business Development Manager is essential in building strong connections with potential clients and current clients to enhance revenue opportunities for the business. They must be exceptional networkers, and work to achieve the clients goals.

This Business Development Manager test assesses whether job candidates have all of the necessary skills to successfully pitch to clients and find solutions to client issues. This can include networking ability, having sales skills and being able to effectively manage stakeholder expectations.

Candidates who perform well on this Business Development Manager skills assessment will have all the technical skills to implement sales strategies that will achieve set client goals and meet all targets. They will also have the necessary soft skills to effectively network and form strong relationships with others.

A candidate who is able to effectively manage relationships with all stakeholders is someone who can form strong professional associations with other internal and external stakeholders of the business. They are able to communicate effectively with anybody that they work with, and manage expectations in a satisfactory manner.
A candidate with strong sales skills will have extensive knowledge of selling techniques and strategies, and have deep product knowledge. They will have the ability to create and execute an effective sales pitch in order to convince current and potential clients to make a purchase.
A candidate with the ability to network is able to meet and interact with others to exchange information and form strong relationships with them. A candidate with strong networking abilities is able to identify new business and revenue opportunities, and promote the business to others with a common interest or those who are in a similar industry.
G2 Icon
4.5/5

Read G2 Reviews

4.5/5

Read Capterra Reviews

4.5/5

Read GetApp Reviews

4.5/5

Read Reviews

LEADING SKILLS ASSESSMENTS

Pre-employment assessments are more than just a shortlisting tool with Vervoe

Vervoe skills assessments test a range of skills in one engaging, user-friendly flow. Unlock the hidden potential of candidates and remove unnecessary offline stages from your hiring process. Increase productivity and make decisions confidently with complete transparency around candidate scoring with data-rich profiles that make it simple to compare top performers.

Play Video
Build your ideal assessment
Assessments can be created using the builder, write your own questions or choose from our bank of 300,000+, or you can use a template from our assessment library of 300+ verified tests.
1
Invite and track candidate progress​
Easily invite candidates via email, or generate a quick link for your job ad, career page or social channel to track candidate source.
2
Optimize your assessment​
Train our AI to understand what good and bad answers look like for you so we’ll grade your candidates like you would.
3
Select what really matters
Candidate results come to life with scores, rank, trophies and top performer badges, allowing you to unearth what’s most important to you.
4
Hire your hidden gem
Once you’ve found the perfect candidate for your role, mark them as “Hired.” Your successful candidate report cards are then easily accessible in your company overview.
5
SELECTING THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

Business Development Manager Online Test Sample Questions

Create a free account today to access the full Business Development Manager skills assessment test and more from our assessment library

Question Type

Question

Networking

Question Type: Video

In a short one minute video, show how you would start a conversation with a prospect and introduce yourself and the brand in a way that will pique their interest.
Question Type

Question

Sales

Question Type: Audio

You’ve identified and made contact with a prospect and they’ve given you a chance to clinch their business. But the only time they have to talk is on the phone while they walk to their next meeting. Pitch the company and what it could do for their business in a two minute audio recording.
Question Type

Question

Stakeholder Management

Question Type: Text

An important client feels we’ve underdelivered and is questioning their ongoing relationship with the company. But looking at the work, you believe we’ve performed to an appropriate standard for the money being paid. What techniques do you employ to appease the client without sacrificing too much of the company’s time and resources by starting the project over?

Never make another bad hire

Traditional job interviews don’t do the job

Try Vervoe Free

Transform the way you hire

HIRE FASTER

Hire 90% faster

Assessments are automatically graded by our powerful AI to save you time and provide accurate scores for each of your candidates. Top performers are highlighted by score and with trophies and badges.

AI Icon
HIRE SMARTER

Predict performance

Surface the most qualified person based on how they perform tasks specific to your role. Test technical, non-technical, and soft skills in one assessment. Vervoe learns what’s most valuable to you, and identifies people with the skills to match.

HIRE FAIRER

Reduce bias

Instead of screening people out, make hiring inclusive by testing everyone that applies for your role. Do away with relying on resumes to find the best candidates and reduce human biases that can be introduced in the hiring process.

AI-Powered Skill Assessments

Your complete solution for skills testing

Immersive questions

With 10 unique question types from code challenges to working spreadsheets to engage your candidates and place them inside real world scenarios.

Content library

Over 300 ready to use assessment templates for a variety of different roles plus a verified bank of 300,000+ questions to draw from to create your own.

BYO branding

Add your logo and corporate colours along with personalised intro videos and introduction notes for candidates.

Vervoe Screenshot
Vervoe Screenshot
Easy invites

Invite candidates to your assessment by email, or get them to apply by taking the assessment directly from your job ad, social post or careers page. Use an ATS? We have a growing suite of ready to use integrations.

Complete skill profile

Results are displayed with overall scores and rank plus breakdowns of achievements for individual skills. Top performers are easy to spot with badges and trophies.

Candidate report cards

In-depth report cards for each candidate including a breakdown of results and achievements for each skill along with full assessment responses.

Collaboration tools

Easily shortlist, compare and share candidate report cards with hiring stakeholders. Leave comments and tag candidates for further stages.

“It eliminated bias, and we saw a huge improvement straight away. Candidates were now being assessed purely on their skills”

CANDIDATE REPORT CARDS

Dig deeper and make informed decisions

See who can actually do the job in real time, create efficiency through automation and quickly surface the most qualified candidates based on how they perform job-related tasks.

Candidate Card
Skill Breakdown
Track Hires
Team Tools
Candidate Responses
Vervoe Assessments

Frequently asked questions

Yes, all assessments are fully customizable meaning you can edit a word or two or delete the question and add your own. You can also customize correct answer samples to your exact business specifications.

We offer assessments for any stage of your hiring process.

Top of Funnel: Screen candidates at the top of the funnel with interactive multiple choice questions that include multi media choices. You’ll be able to test knowledge quickly and keep candidates engaged. Assessments are quick to complete ~20min

Mid Funnel: Combine a variety of question types like multiple choice with media, video responses to see how they communicate and a couple of presentation or spreadsheet questions to dig deeper into their technical knowledge. Assessments take ~40min to complete.

Bottom Funnel: A great opportunity to focus on a single outcome and test extensively with a more elaborate question and some documentation around the process. Assessments take ~ 1.5 hrs to complete.

You can completely customize an assessment for your brand including logo, colors and intro videos. You are also able to customize all of the candidate messaging so that it’s unique to your brand and business.

No, Vervoe assessments test for a range of both job specific hard skills and soft skills like communication or attention to detail. This means you’re testing a complete set of skills so you can be confident the candidate you hire not only has the skills to do the job but that culturally and behaviourally they’re the right fit for your business too.

We offer a range of interactive question types including code challenges, presentations, spreadsheets, document uploads, video, audio, multiple choice with media options and more. Each question type is a sample version of the real life tool. For example a code challenge is a snapshot of a live developer environment where a candidate can complete a specific task.
We have an extensive online help center with video and written tutorials to help you get up and running. Our friendly customer success team is also only a question away and can be contacted via our help center.
Yes, all skills assessment are customizable and can be created to simulate a job or task. This provides the ability to test a candidate on real-life skills and abilities required for the role. A unique combination of different types of questions can simulate how a candidate will perform in different scenarios.

Combining a detailed job description with a skills assessment can help to identify the specific skills and knowledge required for a job, and can streamline the candidate selection process. By writing a clear and concise job description, hiring managers can attract the right candidates for each role.

Vervoe's comprehensive recruitment guide on how to hire a Business Development Manager provides a competency framework that maps out the core job-related hard skills and soft skills required for success in the Business Development Manager role. A Business Development Manager recruitment guide helps understand the hiring process of building the ideal candidate profile, writing an accurate job description based on skills, selecting the ideal candidate, interviewing top performers, and making a job offer.

Vervoe is the most sophisticated skill testing recruitment software on the market. It uses advanced machine learning to create tailored skills assessments that are instantly auto-gradable, allowing companies to test candidates for any skill, and automatically grade their response at any scale.

Vervoe’s automated AI-powered screening leads to 90% reduction in time to hire, and 67% fewer interviews per hire.

See how we compare to all other tools out there.

Trusted by forward-thinking companies to hire top performers

Vervoe Customer Walmart Logo
Vervoe Customer Australia Post
Vervoe customer KForce
Vervoe customer FDM
Vervoe Customer Omnicom
Vervoe customer TriNet
Vervoe customer Myob
HIRE TOP CANDIDATES

Use AI-Powered Business Development Manager Skills Assessments to hire better candidates, faster.

See who can actually do the job, create efficiency through automation, and quickly surface the most qualified candidates so you can make data-driven hiring decisions that propel your business forward.

Start Free Trial
AI-Powered Skills Assessments
G2 Badge Enterprise High Performer
G2 Video Video Interviewing High Performer
G2 Badge Best Support Enterprise
G2 Badge Users Love Us
G2 Badge Technical Skills Screening Best ROI
G2 Badge Pre Emloyment Small Business Requirements
G2 Badge Pre Emloyment Testing High Performer

Related assessments

We help you confidently identify, test and evaluate key skills relevant to your role using our clever AI.

Business Development Representative

View Skills Assessment

Business Development Associate

View Skills Assessment

Senior Sales Representative

View Skills Assessment

Telesales Agent

View Skills Assessment

Telemarketer

View Skills Assessment

Sales Support Specialist

View Skills Assessment
Browse Assessment Library
Vervoe Logo White
Vervoe
Company
support
Legal
Linkedin-in Facebook-f Youtube Twitter
GDPR Compliant and ISO 27001
Holistic-AI-Badge-NYC-Bias-Audit-Verified

Copyright © 2024 All Rights Reserved by Vervoe

Contact Sales
Contact Sales