Sales Executive / SDR - Consumer Research & Insights Platform

Media IQ Recruitment Ltd; St Albans; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company based in St Albans specializing in consumer research provides an exciting opportunity for a Sales Development Representative. The role focuses on selling insights to global FMCG clients and offers a clear path for career advancement within a dynamic SaaS environment.

Benefits

Clear career development plan

Global travel opportunities

Parking available for free

Qualifications

• Degree educated and recently graduated.
• Eager to work in SaaS sales.
• Strong telephone skills and ambitious.

Responsibilities

• Call global decision makers within the FMCG sector.
• Book 5-8 demos per week for experienced BDM.
• Use initiative to source new leads via LinkedIn.

Skills

Strong telephone sales manner

Articulate

Eager to build a professional sales career

Ambitious

Education

Degree educated

Recently graduated

Job description

Sales Executive / SDR - Consumer Research & Insights Platform

Job Sector

Contract Type

Permanent

Location

St Albans (3 days a week)

Job Reference

MediaIQ-SDR-SA942

Do you have a 2:1 or 1st degree grade?

Are you keen to develop a professional sales career within SaaS?

Like the idea of working for an entrepreneurial and fast growing SaaS/consumer research business?

The Company

A highly respected, entrepreneurial and fast-growing St Albans based company, which provides market research and insights into consumer attitudes and behaviours across thefood, beverage and supplement markets worldwide. They help many of the world's leading global FMCG companies (PepsiCo, Danone, Redbull, Nestle etc) to make more informed decisions by leveraging their consumer insights.

The Role of Sales Development Representative (SDR)

The company has an extremely well-respected consumer insights platform which clients pay a corporate subscription to access. There are varying levels of subscription which provide insights and trends across a variety of regions, subject areas etc.

The purpose of your role will be to call up global decision makers of relevant companies within the FMCG world, sell them the top line value of subscribing to this business intelligence platform, and then set up a demo for a more experienced BDM to then take forward. You will be targeted with booking between 5-8 demos per week.You will be given plenty of leads to work through (from their CRM system) but will also be expected to use your own initiative to source new leads via LinkedIn and other research.

You will have a clear career development plan in place, which will include developing you into a BDM role after 6-12 months and within 4 years, up to a team leader position

You will also benefit from global travel as part of the job – visiting industry events to gain leads!

Requirements for this SDR role:

• Degree educated
• Recently graduated
• Highly articulate
• Eager to build a professional sales career within SaaS
• Strong telephone sales manner
• Ambitious
• Able to commute to St Albans offices 3 days week (parking is available for free)

If you feel that you fulfil the above requirements and would like to be considered, please apply.