Business Development Manager Performance Review

Streamline Business Development Performance Reviews with Paperform

Evaluating your business development team effectively is critical to driving revenue growth, expanding market reach, and building strategic partnerships. This Business Development Manager Performance Review template helps HR managers, sales directors, and leadership teams conduct thorough, data-driven assessments that measure the metrics that matter most: pipeline generation, deal closure rates, partnership quality, revenue contribution, and market expansion initiatives.

Why This Template Works for Growing Businesses

Traditional performance reviews often rely on vague feedback and subjective assessments. For business development roles—where results directly impact company growth—you need a structured approach that captures both quantitative achievements and qualitative contributions. This template strikes that balance, giving you a clear framework to:

• Measure pipeline health and generation with specific metrics on lead volume, quality, and conversion
• Assess deal closure effectiveness including win rates, average deal size, and sales cycle length
• Evaluate partnership development from identification through relationship management
• • Track revenue impact with clear attribution to individual BDM efforts
• Review market expansion success across new territories, verticals, or customer segments

The form guides reviewers through each critical performance area with targeted questions, rating scales, and space for detailed commentary—ensuring consistent, fair evaluations across your entire business development team.

Perfect for Sales-Driven Organizations

This template is ideal for:

• SaaS companies and tech startups scaling their sales operations
• Consulting firms and agencies measuring business development ROI
• B2B service providers tracking client acquisition and expansion
• Sales directors and VPs conducting quarterly or annual reviews
• HR teams standardising performance management for revenue-generating roles

Whether you're managing a small BD team or leading enterprise sales operations, this template adapts to your evaluation cadence and company-specific KPIs.

How Paperform Enhances Your Review Process

Built on Paperform's flexible platform, this template goes beyond basic feedback collection. You can:

• Customise rating scales and questions to match your company's unique performance framework
• Use conditional logic to show different sections based on role level (junior BDM vs. senior leader)
• Calculate performance scores automatically using Paperform's built-in calculation fields
• Integrate with your HR systems through Stepper workflows, syncing reviews to tools like BambooHR, Lattice, or your HRIS

Once submitted, you can trigger automated workflows using Stepper to route reviews for approval, schedule follow-up meetings, create development plans in project management tools, or update compensation records—all without manual data entry.

Build a Culture of Accountability and Growth

Regular, structured performance reviews help business development managers understand expectations, celebrate wins, and identify growth opportunities. This template creates transparency around what "great performance" looks like in your organisation, while giving managers the documentation they need for promotion decisions, compensation adjustments, and professional development planning.

With Paperform's professional design options, you can brand your review forms to match your company identity, creating a cohesive employee experience. Reviews are mobile-friendly, can be saved as drafts, and support file uploads for supporting documentation like deal summaries or client testimonials.

Get Started in Minutes

This template is ready to use immediately—just customise the performance criteria, add your company branding, and share with your leadership team. Paperform's intuitive doc-style editor makes it easy to add sections, adjust rating scales, or incorporate company-specific values and competencies.

Whether you're preparing for annual review season or implementing quarterly check-ins, this Business Development Manager Performance Review template gives you the structure and flexibility to run meaningful evaluations that drive both individual and organisational growth.