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About the Role
The Business Development Manager – Route Growth, Western U.S. is responsible for identifying, developing, and closing new route-based arcade and family entertainment opportunities across the Western U.S.. This role builds regional density in markets where FEG has existing properties or strategic opportunities, focusing on creating profitable hub-and-spoke routes that can support dedicated FEG service coverage. The role targets hotels, resorts, FECs, bowling centers, tourist destinations, high-traffic entertainment venues, and other locations where FEG can design, install, and manage manned or unmanned arcade/FEC operations. It requires a strong hunter mindset, disciplined prospecting, operational judgment, and the ability to present FEG’s value proposition to owners and senior operators.
Responsibilities
- Develop regional growth strategies that expand FEG’s route-based business and build profitable market density.
- Identify priority markets and target prospects that can support an efficient route service model.
- Build target lists of FECs, hotels, resorts, bowling centers, tourist venues, and other prospective partners.
- Recommend market expansion priorities based on opportunity size, route feasibility, operational fit, and growth potential.
- Generate new opportunities through cold calling, direct outreach, networking, referrals, local research, and field visits.
- Build relationships with owners, operators, General Managers, developers, asset managers, and hospitality or entertainment leaders.
- Maintain a disciplined pipeline with clear next steps, timing, deal stage, and probability of close.
- Represent FEG professionally in all prospect, partner, and industry interactions.
- Visit and assess prospective locations for financial, operational, and strategic viability.
- Evaluate space, traffic, guest profile, partner expectations, serviceability, game mix potential, revenue opportunity, and operational complexity.
- Determine whether opportunities fit an unmanned arcade, manned FEC, route location, or broader FEG-managed model.
- Partner with Operations, Finance, Equipment, Legal, and Field leaders to validate deal economics and execution requirements.
- Present FEG capabilities, operating model, design/install/manage solution, and financial value proposition to prospective partners.
- Use FEG sales decks and live presentations to influence decision-makers and move opportunities forward.
- Prepare proposals, business cases, and deal summaries; support term negotiation in partnership with leadership.
- Ensure each deal is financially sound, operationally executable, and properly handed off for launch.
- Partner closely with Route Operations, Territory Operations, Field Operations, Equipment, Finance, Legal, and Executive Leadership.
- Ensure growth plans align with route staffing, warehouse support, game availability, installation capacity, and service expectations.
- Stay engaged after launch to support partner continuity, issue resolution, and future expansion opportunities.
Requirements
- The ideal candidate is a proactive business developer who can open doors, build relationships, assess location economics, and close practical, profitable deals in a field-based environment.
- Strong prospecting, cold calling, networking, and relationship-building skills.
- Experience building new markets, territories, routes, or partner channels.
- Confidence presenting to owners, operators, GMs, and senior decision-makers.
- Good financial judgment, operational instincts, and disciplined follow-through.
- Comfort with frequent travel and independent field-based selling.
- 5+ years of business development, outside sales, route sales, hospitality, amusement, vending, entertainment, or multi-location growth experience preferred.
- Experience selling managed services, location-based partnerships, route services, vending/amusement solutions, or entertainment concepts preferred.
- Strong communication, negotiation, presentation, organization, and CRM/pipeline management skills.
- Ability to assess location economics, route feasibility, partner fit, and operational readiness.
- Ability to travel regularly throughout assigned territory; valid driver’s license and acceptable driving record required.
- Model FEG’s values and leadership expectations: Play to Win, Lead with Heart, Make Their Day, and Better Than Yesterday.
- Accountable for growth outcomes, resilient through long sales cycles, and disciplined in execution and handoff.
Skills
- Business development
- Route growth
- Market development
- Prospecting
- Lead generation
- Relationship building
- Cold calling
- Direct outreach
- Networking
- Referrals
- Field visits
- Opportunity assessment
- Deal development
- Financial judgment
- Operational judgment
- Presentation
- Proposal writing
- Negotiation
- CRM/pipeline management
- Sales
Location
- Western U.S.
Work Type
- Field-based
Experience Level
- 5+ years
About the Company
- FEG is a leader in the arcade and family entertainment industry.