Business Development Representative

In This Role, You Will:

• Serve as the first in-depth point of contact to prospective partners and customers
• Call on new prospects and develop business relationships with meeting industry associations
• Provide detailed product information and make presentations for the same
• Partnership opportunity identification and qualification
• Partner with senior sales team to achieve new-booked business and industry partnership quotas
• Provide product information to prospective customers and industry association partners
• Demonstrate solution-selling and relationship-building skills

Here\’s What You Need:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent level of skills and knowledge
• No sales experience required, but some preferred
• Strong sense of initiative and personal leadership demonstrating the ability to function independently, but must also be able to contribute to team initiatives
• Strong business acumen, ethics, and high integrity
• Comfortable using general office software applications
• Excel at developing relationships over the phone
• Ability to handle high outbound call volume with corresponding high talk time
• Must be articulate, organized, detail-oriented, and the ability to multi-task in a dynamic, fast-changing entrepreneurial environment
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Not required, but prior use of sales automation products such as Salesforce.com and web collaboration tools like WebEx a plus