Business Developer (English-speaking) - Work from home in Leeds

Location: United Kingdom

Employment Type: Full-Time

Onsite, Remote or Hybrid: Remote/Flexible

Here at Aprimo, our mission is to empower the marketing organizations of today to build the brands of tomorrow. Aprimo is a pioneer of the marketing resource and digital asset management space, delivering an innovative, industry-leading SaaS solution that changes the way companies work, create, collaborate, and learn in order to deliver exceptional brand experiences at scale.

Aprimo helps enterprises unleash the power of their content by providing marketing automation software and digital asset management software that manages the behind-the-scenes activities involved in marketing. Our product allows companies to manage content planning, creation and distribution all in one place, store content and media in a shared repository, and receive in-depth insights into how content performs.

Founded in 1998, Aprimo has five offices internationally, including Chicago headquarters, and offers a flexible work-from-home/remote-work policy.

At Aprimo, the Business Development Representative (BDR) will work with Demand Generation to assist Account Executives (AE) to drive new business revenue. Responsibilities include:

• Working with marketing and Account Executives to create and drive a nurture program to support pipeline development.
• Building targeted lists for outreach using ZoomInfo, Cognism and Salesforce.
• Identifying business challenges through structured discovery conversations, aligning their challenges with the values and outcomes Aprimo can provide.
• Generating high-quality first-time appointments per month for your Account Executive to attend.
• Maintaining a qualified opportunity pipeline that exceeds 3x of the team annual quota.
• Utilising existing networks and relationships to build new business.
• Documenting information on each opportunity through Aprimo’s SFDC CRM tool while recording/maintaining next steps/actions.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 1-year experience in a similar role within a software provider, SaaS, digital or technical sales environment.
• Fluency in English, French, and German are required.
• Proven track record of generating opportunities in a purely new business BDR/MDR role – strong performance against target.

Additional Successful Qualities:

• The ability to focus on identifying and selling to business challenges, not just the technology.
• The ability to demonstrate understanding of the digital landscape and importance of multi-channel communications.
• An agile mind and a person who thrives in a fast-moving sales environment.
• Proven business development success through effective use of core sales tools: Salesforce, Intent, LinkedIn SalesNav, ZoomInfo, Microsoft Office etc.
• Capability of understanding customer pain points, requirements and correlating potential business to value that can be provided.

We offer a diverse environment that promotes DEI efforts, values multiple perspectives and fresh thinking. Through its relaxed environment, Aprimo embodies a more casual “Silicon Valley” atmosphere with a casual dress code that fosters a creative and free-thinking approach to problem solving and business solutions. Flexible work schedules allow employees to attend to personal matters, creating a deeply rewarding work-life balance.

Aprimo employs a “choose your own adventure” approach to career advancement, emphasising an organic approach to career development where employees can transition into newly created roles or other departments based on their interests. For additional learning and development, we recently rolled out Udemy, which features over 200,000 courses on a wide variety of business topics.

Ranked #1 in AI Metadata & Search by Forrester, Aprimo sits on the cutting-edge of technology, incorporating AI into our product offerings. Our AI-powered content operations platform helps to optimise the creative process and improve the user experience with better search, recommendations, categorisation and summarisation.

Target Compensation: This is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, or other law.