BDR

Abbreviation with 2 meanings

BDR
Stands forBusiness development representative
Meanings2
CategoriesBusiness & Finance, Military
Also writtenBdr

BDR has two meanings. It stands for Business development representative (job title) or Bombardier (british military rank).

Meanings of BDR at a glance

#BDR stands forContext
1Business development representativeBusiness & Finance › Job Title
2BombardierMilitary › British Military Rank

1. Business development representative

Business & Finance · Job Title Abbreviations

Sales role focused on generating new business through outbound prospecting, such as cold calling, email campaigns and social selling, to set up meetings for account executives. BDRs typically target companies that have not yet shown interest.

Example: The BDR team ran a campaign targeting 500 hospital CFOs and booked 42 meetings.

Many companies use BDR and SDR interchangeably, so the split between outbound and inbound is a convention rather than a rule. Pay includes a base salary plus commission tied to meetings booked or pipeline created. The role sits within business development or sales.

2. Bombardier (Bdr)

Military · British Military Rank Abbreviations

Royal Artillery rank equal to a corporal, NATO grade OR-4, marked by two chevrons. Bombardiers command gun detachments and lead small teams in artillery regiments of the British Army and some other Commonwealth armies.

Example: Bdr Collins and his detachment fired the first rounds of the exercise on Salisbury Plain.

The word comes from the old artillery term for a soldier who served a bombard, an early cannon. Despite the similar sound, a bombardier in the British Army has nothing to do with the US Army Air Forces bombardier, the aircrew member who aimed bombs in the Second World War.

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