Sales Development Representative

Cleopatra Enterprise; Zwijndrecht; Hybrid; EUR 45,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work policy

29.5 days holidays

Job summary

Cleopatra Enterprise seeks a Sales Development Representative to generate qualified leads across our solution portfolio. You’ll identify target accounts, engage stakeholders, and convert inbound interest into meetings, blending commercial acumen with Cleopatra’s platform understanding.

Reporting to the Commercial Manager, you’ll collaborate with Business Development and Marketing in a hybrid setup from Zwijndrecht. You should have 2–5 years in SDR/BD, a degree, and fluency in English and Dutch.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years in SDR, inside sales or business development.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree; engineering/tech background is a plus.
• Full professional proficiency in English and Dutch.
• Strong communication and active listening skills.

Responsibilities

• Inbound Qualification: follow up on inquiries and demos, qualify need, book initial meeting.
• Outbound Prospecting: identify target accounts and engage stakeholders via LinkedIn, email, calls.
• Pipeline Generation & Handover: document qualification for seamless sales transition.
• Event & Campaign Prospecting: build outreach ahead of events and campaigns to generate opportunities.
• Product & Market Knowledge: understand Cleopatra’s platform and buyer challenges.
• Sales & Marketing Alignment: provide market feedback to refine messaging and priorities.

Skills

SDR experience

English & Dutch

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s degree

Engineering/tech background preferred

Job description

At Cleopatra Enterprise, we transform how major organizations estimate, control, and execute multi-million-dollar capital projects. To accelerate our international expansion, we are looking for a sharp, proactive Sales Development Representative. Your primary objective is to generate qualified leads across our solution portfolio. You will identify and engage target accounts, convert inbound interest into meetings, and create new opportunities through proactive outbound prospecting, campaigns, events, and relevant market signals. You will report to the Commercial Manager and work closely with Business Development and Marketing.

• 2-5 years of experience
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree (a background or strong interest in engineering or technology is a plus).
• € 4000 - € 5000
• 32-40 hours per week
• 29,5 holidays
• A hybrid working policy that combines collaboration at our headquarters in Zwijndrecht with the flexibility to work remotely, in line with company policy.

You are not a traditional script-reader; you act as an insightful conversation partner. Combining commercial acumen with a solid understanding of Cleopatra’s platform, you can recognize relevant business challenges and engage credibly with stakeholders across estimating, project controls, project management, digital transformation, IT, and procurement in capital-intensive industries such as energy, process industries, infrastructure, and construction.

What you’ll do

• Inbound Qualification: Rapidly follow up on inbound inquiries and demo requests, understand the prospect’s organization, current processes, project environment, challenges, and potential business need, and convert relevant interest into an initial meeting with Business Development.
• Outbound Prospecting & Account Hunting: Make outbound lead generation your primary focus: identify target accounts and relevant stakeholders, then engage them through a mix of LinkedIn, tailored email outreach, calls, campaigns, and other relevant prospecting signals. Typical stakeholders include estimators, cost engineers, project managers, heads of projects, digital transformation, IT, and procurement.
• Pipeline Generation & Handover: When you identify a qualified opportunity, you prepare and join the initial discovery meeting together with the Business Development Manager, ensuring the prospect context and qualification are well documented for a seamless transition into the sales process.
• Event & Campaign Prospecting: Identify target accounts ahead of international events, build dedicated outreach campaigns, schedule meetings, and occasionally represent Cleopatra at selected trade shows and conferences. Follow up systematically to convert event engagement into qualified opportunities.
• Product & Market Knowledge: Build and maintain a solid understanding of Cleopatra’s platform, solution portfolio, target industries, and buyer challenges so you can recognize where a meaningful sales conversation exists.
• Sales & Marketing Alignment: Provide direct market feedback to Marketing and Business Development teams to refine outbound messaging, target buyer personas, campaign approaches, and market priorities.

What You Bring

• 2 to 5 years of experience in an SDR, Inside Sales, or Business Development role, preferably in a complex B2B, technology, or industrial environment. Experience selling into organizations with multiple stakeholders and longer decision-making processes is a strong advantage.
• A genuine interest in sales development: you enjoy prospecting, opening doors, and creating opportunities from a cold start.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree (a background or strong interest in engineering or technology is a plus).
• Full professional proficiency in English and Dutch. (Fluency in additional languages like Spanish, Portuguese, or German is highly advantageous).
• Strong communication and active listening skills, with the ability to ask insightful questions and uncover genuine business needs.
• A self-starter mindset, resilience, and the discipline to consistently work toward lead-generation and pipeline targets.

Why Cleopatra?

At Cleopatra, you’ll join a small, ambitious marketing team where your ideas genuinely matter. You’ll work alongside colleagues from different backgrounds and nationalities who enjoy sharing ideas, challenging each other and celebrating successes together. We take our work seriously, but never ourselves.

As Cleopatra continues to grow internationally, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the voice of a company that helps deliver some of the world’s most complex capital projects.

What we offer

• A high-impact role at the heart of our international sales engine, with real ownership of lead generation across our solution portfolio and direct visibility into company growth.
• Exposure to international markets, complex enterprise sales cycles, and selected industry events.
• Competitive base salary paired with an attractive performance-based incentive scheme.
• Clear career progression paths into Business Development Manager, Account Manager, or Implementation Consultant roles.

“With my passion for the mining industry, energy sector and diversity, I needed a challenging position where I could share this passion with my peers. The culture of “passion makes perfect” at Cleopatra Enterprise therefore fits perfectly with me. The balance between working from home, the office or abroad really keeps things in perspective and results in never having a boring day here with team Orange.”
Shamir, Business Developer

“If you are passionate about or industry and breathe professionalism, assertiveness and persuasiveness, you will really fit in the team and mutually add value. We are looking forward to your insights and together we can expand our passion and knowledge to new markets”