Business Development Representative

Kantata is a company focused on enhancing professional services automation, helping businesses optimize their workforce. They are seeking a motivated Business Development Representative to drive new business relationships and support the sales pipeline through proactive outreach and collaboration with Account Executives.

Responsibilities

• Work with your paired Account Executive to prospect and create new leads to increase sales pipeline
• Route qualified opportunities to the sales team by setting appointments
• Maintain consistent and meaningful prospect outreach via phone, email, and social platforms utilizing Kantata’s sales enablement tools
• Maintain consistent collaboration with your Account Executive on execution of territory, account, and contact planning via marketing and sales initiatives
• Possess a strong understanding of Kantata’s platform, the target market, competition and positioning
• Successfully manage and overcome prospects’ objections and rejections
• Exceed monthly quota of qualified appointments
• Be a brand champion and educate prospective clients on Kantata’s value proposition
• Maintain an active social presence on LinkedIn that generates strong brand awareness

Skills

• Experience in selling in an outbound B2B role
• Recommended experience in technology (ideally SaaS) sales environment
• Recommended experience with Salesforce CRM, LinkedIn/LinkedIn Sales Navigator, SalesLoft, LeadIQ, Google Suite of productivity tools (ex. Sheets, Docs, Slides)
• Recommended experience in an environment focused on Account-based sales development
• Consistent self-motivation to improve knowledge and skills through personal development
• Excellent communication skills (writing, speaking, listening)
• Self-motivated and highly driven with the ability to work with limited direction and collaborate with geographically remote team members
• Ability to converse and engage with senior-level decision-makers
• Social selling skills and techniques are a plus
• Conducting research via social media or other means to gain insight into prospects needs
• Drive to excel in a competitive, numbers-driven, performance-based environment
• Strong organization and time management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and competing tasks/priorities
• Natural curiosity, a love for learning
• A high level of integrity

Benefits

• An intentionally engaging and collaborative culture - ditch the silo!
• Strong work-life balance that’s a true focus of the company
• The chance to learn from some of the best people in the business
• A vibrant, collaborative and devoted team, who still makes time for fun

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