Sales Development Representative – 3 month contract with potential to extend – Immediate start

Connecting Education; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Immediate start

Job summary

Connecting Education is seeking a Sales Development Representative (SDR) to support the Sales team in generating and nurturing leads for our education technology platform. You will engage prospects, qualify opportunities, and work closely with Sales and Marketing to maximise pipeline growth.

The role offers hybrid working with 1-2 days per week at the Sheffield HQ, an immediate start, and a 3-month contract with potential to extend or become permanent.

Qualifications

• Interest in sales, marketing and SaaS technology.
• Strong verbal and written communication.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Willingness to learn and be trained.
• Familiarity with MS Office and basic CRM tools.

Responsibilities

• Source and reach out to leads from target prospect lists.
• Qualify inbound and outbound leads via calls, emails, and LinkedIn.
• Identify customer pain points and assess solution fit.
• Schedule discovery calls and hand off qualified leads to Account Executives.
• Maintain accurate CRM records and support marketing campaigns.

Skills

Sales interest

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Proactive learner

MS Office

CRM software

Tools

CRM software

LinkedIn

Job description

Are you looking to kickstart your career in B2B sales? Interested in technology, education, and helping schools thrive? Want to join a supportive, high-performing team at a company on an exciting growth trajectory? This might be the role for you!

The company

Our client is an education technology company that has created a unique platform combining the world’s largest CPD and policy library with custom-built tools – developed in collaboration with thousands of schools and over 1,000 education experts.

They empower workforces to transform children’s lives. Their all-in-one platform helps schools, trusts and nurseries stay compliant, raise standards, and reduce staff workload – all through intuitive, powerful software.

If educators need it, they build it.

They have three business divisions:

• Professional Development: Access the world’s largest CPD library for educators. Meet your statutory training requirements & raise standards with expert-led courses, webinars, podcasts & parent guides.
• People Development: The complete online platform for people development. Put people at the heart of your school improvement strategy by linking appraisals and professional development. Streamline your entire appraisal process.
• Compliance Management: Simplify and automate policy compliance. Eliminate the spreadsheets and make manual record-keeping a thing of the past with Policy Manager – our all-in-one policy management tool.

The role

As a Sales Development Representative (SDR), you’ll support the Sales team in generating, qualifying, and nurturing leads to drive business growth. You’ll play a key role in top-of-funnel activity – identifying and engaging prospective customers – while working closely with both Sales and Marketing.

This role offers valuable hands‑on exposure to B2B sales within a SaaS environment, including client engagement, pipeline development, and the sales tools and frameworks that underpin it. You’ll also help maintain CRM data integrity and support campaigns designed to maximise lead generation.

Day-to-day includes:

• Sourcing and reaching out to leads from target prospect lists
• Qualifying inbound and outbound leads through calls, emails, and LinkedIn
• Identifying customer pain points and assessing solution fit
• Scheduling discovery calls and handing off qualified leads to Account Executives
• Maintaining accurate and up-to-date records in the CRM
• Collaborating with Marketing to improve messaging and targeting

The package

• Opportunity to join a reputable and well-respected brand in education, in an exciting period of growth
• Hybrid working (1-2 days per week at their Sheffield HQ)
• Immediate start
• 3-month contract with potential to extend/turn permanent

To be successful…

• A genuine interest in sales, marketing, and SaaS technology
• Enthusiastic, proactive, and eager to learn in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong organisational skills, with excellent attention to detail
• Comfortable using Microsoft Office, and open to learning new tools
• No specific sales experience required – full training and hands‑on support is provided