Sales Development Representative

Skills
Business DevelopmentCRM SoftwareConsultative SellingLead QualificationPipeline GenerationSalesSales Development
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills across a variety of channels (email social media phone etc)
  • Excellent listening skills and a positive and energetic phone presence
  • Naturally curious with strong persuasion abilities
  • Highly motivated driven and self-starting individual
  • Ability to learn technology quickly through instruction and self-training
  • Basic understanding of enterprise IT environments
  • Track record in sales or business development preferable but not essential
  • Familiarity with CRM software and sales tools is a plus

Nice to have

  • Results-oriented
  • Adaptable
  • Tech-savvy
  • Team player

Day to day

  • Develop new business opportunities and expand market reach
  • Identify potential customers and generate interest through a strategic research-based approach using cold discovery calls email and social
  • Conduct high level conversations with senior executives in prospect accounts
  • Discover and understand customer needs and business problems to effectively secure follow up meetings with the sales team
  • React to objections and competitor questions to overcome sales barriers
  • Work closely with the Manager and Marketing team to drive continuous improvement in lead quality conversion rates and pipeline generation
  • Consistently achieve and overachieve set targets
  • Track all relevant qualification and lead management activity using Salesforce