Are you ready to make some history?! Foleon is a leading content creation platform providing business teams with a fast and scalable way to produce highly-engaging content experiences that bring a new level of intelligence to their customer journeys. Foleon is based in Amsterdam and New York and serves more than 1,200 global B2B brands. We value people who are bold, ambitious, collaborative, and customer-centric. Even better, the ones who know how to work hard and have fun at the same time. We're a team of highly driven people, with a great sense of human connection and a clear focus. If you're looking to build your career in a fast-growing international tech scale-up, you're in the right place. Your Mission As a Business Development Rep, you will identify and engage with prospects to generate new business opportunities through qualification and nurturing of leads towards the sales pipeline. You will work closely with the sales and marketing teams to develop and execute strategies that drive business growth through calling, emailing, and using social media platforms like LinkedIn to your advantage. Foleon will help you succeed in your role by providing a strong tech stack. Being at the center of the sales and marketing teams, you're the first personal connection with our prospects. You understand that proactively researching the company and prospect, quickly following up, building and maintaining a relationship, and noting all prospect interactions for an efficient handover to sales will be key to success in your role. Your Job
- Relationship Building: Build and nurture relationships with leads through effective communication and follow-up, ensuring they are engaged and well-informed about our product and services.
- Qualification: Qualify leads by evaluating their potential as clients based on predefined sales criteria and following up accordingly.
- Meeting Setting: Schedule meetings with qualified leads for the sales team, ensuring that all necessary information is passed along.
- Research: Gather information on prospects and maintain accurate and up-to-date records of all lead interactions and activities in the CRM system.
- Reporting: Provide regular reports to the marketing and sales teams and management on lead quality, meeting outcomes, market trends, and insights.
- Outbound Calls: Utilize prospecting and research tools to initiate outbound phone calls, email outreaches, and social selling to prospects. Introduce our company, identify prospect pain points, and assess their interest in our products/services.
- Product Knowledge: Stay updated on company products and services to effectively communicate their value to prospects.
- Collaboration: Work closely and collaboratively with your peers and the sales and marketing teams on integrated demand generation campaigns and executing appropriate prospect communication plans
Your Competencies & Skills
- Active listening skills: Actively listen to what potential customers are saying to understand their needs, provide the necessary information, and identify sales opportunities.
- Resilience and adaptability: Handle challenges, such as difficult prospective clients or tight deadlines without getting discouraged. You find success through persistence and determination and adapt to changes in the marketplace, competition, and customer needs.
- Time management and organization: Manage your workload and ensure that all leads meet the service level agreements. Remain organized so you can prioritize preparations, meetings, tasks, and follow-ups accordingly.
- Results-oriented and coachable: You're open to feedback to continuously grow and improve. You're willing to try new strategies and tactics that will help you with customer communication and achieving performance targets.
Your Qualifications
- Very strong work ethic with confidence to work autonomously
- Highly motivated to succeed both individually and with a fast-growing company
- Strong English verbal and written communication skills
- Huge plus if you have;
- Prior B2B or SaaS experience
- Familiarity with sales, enablement, and CRM techstack
What you get:
- Be part of a top-tier team in the Content Creation scale-up.
- Collaborate with an adaptable and flexible group of individuals to benefit from collective growth.
- Embrace the variety of backgrounds and values that each individual brings to the table.
- A flexible workplace that offers a conducive atmosphere for productivity.
Perks:
- Hybrid way of working
- Company pension program
- Learning budget
- Transportation allowance
- 25 days holiday paid leave
- Working from abroad (6 weeks)
- Workout benefit
- Mental health online platform and counseling
- Volunteer day
- Apple gear
- Company events and more fun!