Business Development Representative

About the role

The Intralinks EMEA Inside Sales team is growing! Join us to become part of an integral part of this new strategic team and grow the Alternative Investment business. Intralinks is an international, young, and fun organization which offers a great opportunity to develop your sales and negotiations skills in a competitive and dynamic environment. #WhatLinksUS Why You Will Love It Here! Flexibility : Hybrid Work Model Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career What You Will Get To Do: The BDR is responsible for identifying and developing new opportunities for the Account Executive to pursue. BDRs generate demand primarily via outbound prospecting into assigned accounts, territories or buying centers . In addition to tele, BDRs use a spectrum of tactics including email, social media and chat. In organizations with limited scale, BDRs also have responsibilities to further qualify inbound demand generated by marketing and scored using a marketing automation platform (MAP)

Responsibilities

• Generate new demand (e.g. individual leads and/or buying groups) for the sales organization to pursue
• Qualify demand (e.g. individual leads and/ or buying groups) against established criteria before passing a lead to field sales as Sales Accepted Leads (SALs) or qualified demand units
• Discover, validate and reach out to additional personas typically involved in a buying decision to determine possible buying groups for delivery to field sales
• Nurture predetermined groups of prospects back from field or channel sales by using multiple touch tactics (e.g. telephone, email, social)
• As a secondary responsibility - where specified by the organization - process inbound demand using a range of tactics (e.g. telephone, email, social)
• Comply with all demand management- related service-level agreements
• Provide accurate weekly forecasts to marketing and sales on the volume of qualified demand expected to reach the SAL stage or qualified demand stage
• Track and manage prospecting, qualification and nurture activities in the company's sales force automation (SFA) system
• Reach and have meaningful, productive conversations with individuals representing the buyer personas targeted by the organization
• Dimensions of the Role
• Organisational interlocks: Field Sales, Channel Sales, Pre-Sales, Field Marketing, Marketing Operations, Sales Operations, Product Marketing, Product Marketing
• Technologies Supporting the role: SalesForce , SalesLoft, LeadIQ , Lusha, Linkedin Sales Navigator, full Microsoft Office suite
• Success Metrics: Accepted & Converted Sales Accepted Leads (SALs), new opportunities & influenced opportunities

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree desired
• Two to three years of prospecting experience, depending on the complexity of the product/ solution being sold, as well as the level of prospect being called (e.g. IT buyer vs. CXO)
• B2B experience
• Familiarity with MAPs and CRM systems
• Experience in an industry with a significant volume of customer/prospect interaction
• Additional Skills, Experience, Languages
• Strong verbal & written communication skills
• Active listening to asses prospect needs & opportunities
• Ability to articulate a high-quality value proposition on every call
• Ability to perform prospect & account research to prepare for calls
• Ability to use existing and emerging social media tools to monitor targeted accounts and buying groups, and identify trigger events for follow-up
• Discipline and energy to maintain high activity volumes (e.g. a minimum of 30 outbound calls and 25 additional outbound tou

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Additional Information

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology. Job Description Locations: Johannesburg | Hybrid Get To Know Us: Watch Video SS&C Intralinks is a global technology provider of inter-enterprise content management and collaboration solutions. Its products serve the enterprise collaboration and strategic transaction markets, enabling the exchange, control, and management of information between organizations.

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