Channel Business Development Representative
Job Summary
Job Description
As a Business Development Representative, you will be strategizing with your paired Channel Sales Manager to reach out to Mid-Market and Fortune 1000 companies. You will provide valued insights and stories showcasing Actian's technology and value proposition. You will prospect new partners, find new partner leads, and continually learn new skills. You will be responsible for prospecting, outreach, engagement, sales, and qualification of potential partners. You will work within a sales team environment and utilize cutting-edge sales tools. You will build relationships with key decision makers and gather information for a winning sales plan. You will manage and develop leads in your territory, contribute to messaging, and consistently achieve qualified meetings. You'll also be responsible for maintaining Salesforce.com and setting up discovery calls. This role involves working in a dynamic environment, requiring strong communication skills, and a focus on customer success.
Must have:
- 1+ years of sales or service experience.
- Confident communicator via phone, email, and social media.
- Track record of succeeding in a goal-oriented environment.
- Experience with the mid-market/enterprise space.
- Customer success and satisfaction is a priority.
- A creative self-starter with a desire to help people.
- Initiative to create and execute improvement plans.
- Creativity and inquisitiveness about data & analytics.
- Team player, self-motivated, with excellent skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Good to have:
- Experience in enterprise SaaS and analytics.
- Prior sales training is preferred.
- Experience with Salesforce.com.
- Ability to use modern sales prospecting tools.
6 skills required
Job Details
About Our Company
Our Vision is to be the Most Trusted, Flexible and Easy to Use Hybrid Cloud Data Platform. Actian is transforming industries by empowering companies to accelerate application modernization and simplify the Cloud journey. Our customers use the Actian Data Platform to unify their siloed data, explore and securely exchange data to run a variety of analytic workloads that provide real time business insights at a fraction of the cost. We have 24 of the Fortune 100 companies using Actian technology in some of the most mission critical applications that impact your daily life.
Who We Are Looking For
We are looking for the future’s top salespeople so if you have a passion for sales, an eagerness to learn and grow, and love to run at a fast pace, this is the role for you. As a Business Development Representative, you will be strategizing with your paired Channel Sales Manager, reaching out to both Mid-Market and Fortune 1000 companies, and providing valued insights and stories that showcase Actian technology and unique value proposition. With Actian’s data technology fueling your day-to-day analytics to support your selling + our investments in innovative sales automation tools at your fingertips, you will be responsible for prospecting new partners, finding new partner leads while continually learning new skills that will prepare you for the fast track into more senior sales roles in the future. At Actian we have a passion for helping customers. If you are an entrepreneurial and motivated self-starter, Actian’s innovative cloud data and hybrid technologies offer you a fast-track to engaging with some of the most innovative prospects and customers driving the future of data.
Business Development Role
- Working in a sales team environment with Channel partner Managers, Account Executives, and technical engineering. The BDR role is the ‘tip of the spear’ that makes the best first impression with all new prospective partners.
- Utilize cutting-edge front-line sales & prospecting tools to creatively plan and connect with prospective customers
- Prospect: Identify and prioritize accounts that are most likely to generate revenue based on your territory and teaming with local Channel partner managers. You will have the most cutting-edge technology enabling prospect scoring/prioritization (example – digital web traffic, highly engaged prospects that require higher outreach)
- Outreach: Plan how to get in touch with accounts and conduct outreach in a modern sales methodology and capacity. Utilize best first impression across multi-channel selling to differentiate Actian (phone, email, social media).
- Engage: Build relationships and generate engagement/awareness with key decision makers, adapting messaging to the different stakeholders, making sure they understand the value we bring and get excited about Actian’s cutting edge technology
- Sell: discover prospective customer pain points and be prepared to tell the Actian story & a few customer success stories to clearly differentiate why Actian is a game changer in multi-cloud data & analytics
- Qualify: Gather information needed to qualify the prospects and document the information into a winning sales plan in salesforce.com
- Stay organized and synthesize and report learnings from your client interactions on a regular basis to sales management, account executives – and take ownership to convert small data points & interactions into a new sales opportunity
Key Objectives:
- Qualify accounts, including multiple prospects within one account/department, leading to new opportunity creation – manage and develop leads in your territory in a strategic manner
- Lead account and prospect research to build a world-class partner database for your territory in an organized manner utilizing advanced prospecting tools at your fingertips
- Contribute to and develop key messaging and content to drive repeatability against our Ideal Partner Profiles, Targeted Personas, and 1:1 Account ABM
- Consistently achieve qualified meetings
- Manage an organized territory plan, and maintain Salesforce.com with precision to represent your territory to sales management and roll-up clean reports for the entire sales extended team follow-up and management of identified opportunities
- Set and run discovery calls with your team
What you'll need to be successful:
- 1+ years of sales or service experience.
- You're a confident communicator, comfortable speaking with managers, executives, and prospects via phone, e-mail, and multi-channel (social media)
- A measurable track record of succeeding in a goal-oriented environment
- Experience with the mid-market/enterprise space
- You believe that customer success and satisfaction starts with sales and continues across the company – including creating a best first impression
- You're creative and a self-starter, with a desire to help people see a problem in a new light
- You take initiative when necessary, creating and executing plans for improvements and implementation
- Creativity and inquisitiveness about data, analytics, and new technology, combined with the desire to help enterprises solve problems in new ways
- A team player, self-motivated, outcome focused, with excellent communication and organizational skills. When you find problems, you look to identify solutions
- Strong written and verbal communication skills. Experience with email cadence/template development
- Experience in the world of enterprise SaaS and analytics is a definite plus
- Prior sales training and experience with Salesforce.com is preferred
- Ability to use modern sales prospecting tools, including: ZoomInfo, SalesLoft/Outreach, ABX tools, LinkedIn SalesNavigator
We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.
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