Sales Development Representative - £40k-£60k + £40k-£60k OTE in Reading

About the job Sales Development Representative - £40k-£60k + £40k-£60k OTE

Our client, an expert in archiving and digital preservation of valuable data, is seeking a self‑motivated Sales Development Representative to join their growing sales team. The successful candidate will have experience in a similar role and ideally a background of selling into Pharmaceutical and Life Science organisations, or a thorough understanding of that market.

Responsibilities

• Represent our company’s products and services, starting with a comprehensive understanding and leading to consumer research to identify how our solutions meet needs.
• Generate leads and build relationships by nurturing warm prospects and finding new potential sales outlets.
• Utilise Salesforce, cold calling, and email to generate new sales opportunities.
• Build long‑term trusting relationships with prospects to qualify leads as sales opportunities.
• Proactively seek new business opportunities in the market.

Skills / Experience

• Demonstrable experience of over‑achieving against sales targets.
• An excellent telephone manner for making initial contact and ongoing communication with customers and business associates.
• Interpersonal skills for building and developing relationships with clients.
• Written and verbal communication skills – needed for communicating with a range of people, both internally and externally, as well as presentation skills.
• Demonstrable experience of social selling using tools such as LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
• Teamworking skills and a collaborative approach to work.
• The ability to multitask and prioritise your workload.
• Demonstrable success in a sales role.
• Experience selling SaaS and Cloud Solutions.
• Knowledge of the pharmaceutical / life science industry highly beneficial.