The role of a Business Development Representative in the UK is to assist prospects in re-imagining their customer experiences with Adobe solutions. Alongside this, you will generate new sales opportunities for your Account Executives (AEs).
- Identify and build high-value opportunities in the sales pipeline and develop relationships with prospective high-value accounts.
- Deliver a consultative approach to selling, understanding the prospect's business, goals, objectives, and challenges before recommending a solution.
- Consistently achieve quality pipeline and other metrics such as inbound lead follow-up and outbound account engagement metrics.
- Research target accounts, identify decision-makers, generate interest, and develop accounts to stimulate need.
- Prospect, educate, qualify, and develop target accounts and inbound leads to build sales-ready leads and opportunities.
- Route prospects and current customers to appropriate colleagues to assist in solving problems and driving value.
- Set up, attend, and run first-level qualification meetings with customers before passing them on to relevant Account Executives and Solution Consultants.
- Partner with Sales and Specialist teams to further qualify and generate pipeline.
- Update CRM, Outreach/Salesloft, and other tools to ensure logging of key history and ensure a smooth hand-off to the Account Executive.
- Work closely with the Marketing team to run and assist in performing lead generation campaigns and follow up on leads.
- Run outbound campaigns to ensure a balanced pipeline built across territories.
- Provide closed-loop feedback to the BDR organization to ensure continuous process optimizations.
2 to 3 minimum years of experience in Sales/Business Development with knowledge of SaaS applications. - Proven track record of successful business development in enterprise solutions, software, or tech sales environment.
- Strong sales skills delivering inbound and outbound experiences and building relationships at multiple levels within an organization.
- Experience running all areas of the SDR process including account planning, pre-call preparation, opportunity qualification, and objection handling.
- Self-starter with high motivation, independence, resilience, and ability to collaborate with sales and marketing teams to deliver pipeline creation goals.
- Strong communication, including listening, written, and verbal skills.
- Ability to quickly learn and understand complex business problems and translate customers' needs into solution plays.
- Proficient with standard corporate efficiency tools (email, voicemail, MS Office) and experience with sales tools such as Microsoft Dynamics, SFDC, Outreach, ZoomInfo, Lusha, etc.
- Strong time management and ability to prioritize key tasks.
- Great teammate with the ability to collaborate effectively with multiple partners across sales, marketing, and solution teams.
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