Outbound Business Development Representative

Foleon; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

WFH allowance

NS Business Card

Pension program

Learning budget

25 holiday days

Floating holidays

Work from abroad

Office lunch

Fitness support

Lease a bike

Mental health platform

Volunteer day

Employee recognition

Job summary

Foleon, a leading content creation platform, is hiring a Business Development Representative in Amsterdam. You will own outbound pipeline, identify target accounts, and craft a point of view to open conversations with senior stakeholders.

You’ll work with Account Executives, test new outreach methods, and track results in a modern tech stack. If you’re ambitious, curious, and customer-centric, this role offers growth in a fast-growing scale-up with a strong focus on collaboration and outcomes.

Qualifications

• Previous BDR or SaaS experience is welcome, but it isn’t required.
• We care more about evidence of drive, achievement and learning agility than a particular job title or background.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills developed through customer-facing environments.

Responsibilities

• Build pipeline: Own outbound pipeline generation across your territory and work towards clear targets for qualified opportunities and revenue impact.
• Find the opportunity: Research target accounts, buying groups and trigger events to identify where Foleon can solve a meaningful business problem.
• Earn attention: Create relevant, personalised outreach across phone, email, LinkedIn and other channels - moving beyond templates when the account calls for it.
• Start commercial conversations: Engage senior stakeholders, uncover pain, priorities and urgency, and qualify whether there is a strong reason to continue.
• Partner with Account Executives: Agree account strategies, share insights and hand over well-qualified opportunities with the context needed to progress them.
• Experiment and improve: Test messaging, sequences, channels and approaches. Use the data to double down on what works and change what doesn’t.
• Run a disciplined book of business: Prioritise your time, maintain accurate CRM records and follow through on every commitment.
• Learn the market: Build strong knowledge of Foleon, our customers, competitors and the challenges faced by modern content and marketing teams.

Skills

Sales mindset

Proactive outreach

English communication

Job description

Job Description

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 BDR, your mission is to create qualified pipeline for Foleon. You’ll identify the companies and people most likely to benefit from our platform, develop a point of view on why Foleon matters to them, and use thoughtful, persistent outreach to start conversations. You’ll own your activity and outcomes, partner closely with Account Executives, and continually test new ways to break into target accounts. We’ll give you strong coaching, a modern tech stack and room to experiment. You’ll bring the drive, curiosity and consistency to turn that support into results.

Your Job

• Build pipeline: Own outbound pipeline generation across your territory and work towards clear targets for qualified opportunities and revenue impact.
• Find the opportunity: Research target accounts, buying groups and trigger events to identify where Foleon can solve a meaningful business problem.
• Earn attention: Create relevant, personalised outreach across phone, email, LinkedIn and other channels - moving beyond templates when the account calls for it.
• Start commercial conversations: Engage senior stakeholders, uncover pain, priorities and urgency, and qualify whether there is a strong reason to continue.
• Partner with Account Executives: Agree account strategies, share insights and hand over well-qualified opportunities with the context needed to progress them.
• Experiment and improve: Test messaging, sequences, channels and approaches. Use the data to double down on what works and change what doesn’t.
• Run a disciplined book of business: Prioritise your time, maintain accurate CRM records and follow through on every commitment.
• Learn the market: Build strong knowledge of Foleon, our customers, competitors and the challenges faced by modern content and marketing teams.

What Success Looks Like

• Consistently create qualified sales opportunities and contribute meaningful pipeline.
• Your outreach is relevant enough to earn responses and resilient enough to survive silence and rejection.
• Balance activity with quality: you work at pace while thinking carefully about where and how to engage.
• Take ownership of your number, understand what is working and act early when you’re off track.
• Become a trusted partner to your Account Executives and a valuable source of market insight for the wider team.

Your Competencies & Skills

• Hungry to win. Targets motivate you, progress matters to you and you don’t wait to be chased.
• Have evidence of pursuing and achieving a goal in sales, fundraising, recruitment, hospitality, sport, study, entrepreneurship or another performance-driven environment.
• Creative and resourceful. When the obvious route doesn’t work, you look for another way in.
• Resilient. You can hear “no,” learn from it and make the next call with the same energy.
• Curious about people and businesses and can turn research into a relevant point of view.
• Communicate clearly and confidently in English, both in writing and conversation.
• Coachable, seek direct feedback and apply it quickly.
• Organized and accountable, with the ability to manage competing priorities without losing momentum or detail.
• Want to build a career in B2B sales and are prepared to master the fundamentals.

Your Qualifications

• Previous BDR or SaaS experience is welcome, but it isn’t required. We care more about evidence of drive, achievement and learning agility than a particular job title or background.

Helpful, But Not Essential

• Experience working towards an individual target or measurable goal.
• Exposure to B2B sales, SaaS, prospecting or customer-facing work.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, developed through any customer-facing, commercial, academic or extracurricular environment.

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 working: Work 3 days in the office and the rest at home. Plus, receive a monthly WFH allowance.
• Commuting covered: Not living in Amsterdam? We’ve got you. Get an NS Business Card or receive up to €400/month. Smooth travels!
• Pension program: You're not in this alone, we also contribute to your pension plan!
• Learning budget: You’ll get €500 each year to spend on courses, books, workshops, or anything that helps you grow.
• 25 holiday days + bonus days: You’ll get 25 paid days off, and if Christmas or New Year’s falls on a weekend, you get an extra day. + Special days off!
• Floating holidays for inclusivity: Celebrate what matters to you. Move up to 2 public holidays per year to align with your cultural or religious observances.
• Work from abroad: 2 times a year, you can work from another country for up to 3 weeks.
• Office lunch: We’ll cover part of the cost of lunch at the office twice a week.
• Fitness support: Stay active with up to €25/month toward your workouts, whether you’re into spinning, lifting, or just stretching.
• Lease a bike: Need a new ride? Lease (e)bike for commuting or personal use at an affordable rate.
• Mental health matters: We offer access to a mental health platform and professional counseling.
• Volunteer day: Take a paid day off each year to give back and support a cause close to your heart.
• Employee recognition program: Get the kudos you deserve through our recognition program.

Note: All our hiring is done in-house, so we’re not looking for agency support for this role. Thanks for understanding!