About LeanOps
LeanOps partners with businesses across global markets by providing highly skilled remote professionals who become an extension of our clients’ teams. We recruit exceptional talent, provide comprehensive training, and deliver reliable operational support while maintaining high standards of security, compliance, and operational excellence.
Position Overview
LeanOps is seeking a motivated and results-driven Sales Development Representative (SDR) to build a consistent pipeline of qualified sales opportunities across global markets. The SDR will identify target accounts, research decision-makers, initiate conversations, qualify business needs, and book high-quality meetings for the sales team.
This is an onsite, performance-driven role aligned with US business hours. The ideal candidate is confident on the phone, persistent without being pushy, comfortable speaking with business leaders in international markets, and disciplined about CRM hygiene and follow-up.
Key Responsibilities
Prospecting & Outbound Outreach
- Identify target companies and decision-makers and execute outbound prospecting through cold calls, personalized email, LinkedIn, and approved channels.
- Build relevant messaging around staffing capacity, operational efficiency, cost optimization, and access to skilled talent.
- Use structured multi-touch sequences and consistent follow-up.
Lead Qualification & Meeting Generation
- Understand prospect business needs, pain points, priorities, decision process, and fit for LeanOps.
- Qualify leads against agreed criteria and book qualified discovery meetings for Account Executives or sales leadership.
- Provide clear context, confirm interest, and protect meeting quality.
CRM & Pipeline Management
- Maintain accurate prospect, contact, activity, qualification, and follow-up records in the CRM.
- Keep next actions current and ensure qualified opportunities move forward without gaps.
Market & Account Research
- Research industries, companies, growth signals, hiring needs, and relevant decision-makers.
- Use approved sales‑intelligence tools to identify new accounts and improve personalization.
Sales Team Collaboration
- Work closely with Account Executives, Sales Managers, and leadership on target accounts, messaging, objections, and market feedback.
Performance & Continuous Improvement
- Meet agreed activity, connect, qualification, and qualified‑meeting targets.
- Participate in training, role‑plays, coaching, and performance reviews; continuously improve outreach and conversion.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
- 1–3 years of experience in sales development, inside sales, business development, tele‑sales, recruitment sales, or a similar customer‑facing role.
- Strong spoken and written English with the ability to communicate naturally with prospects in international markets.
- Comfortable making high‑volume outbound calls and handling objections professionally.
- Strong prospecting, follow‑up, organization, time‑management, and CRM discipline.
- Ability to work onsite and consistently align with US business hours.
- Target‑oriented mindset with clear accountability for pipeline results.
Preferred
- Experience in B2B services, staffing, recruiting, outsourcing, managed services, SaaS, or professional services.
- Experience prospecting global companies or speaking with international decision‑makers.
- Experience with HubSpot, Salesforce, Apollo, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, ZoomInfo, or similar tools.
- Familiarity with consultative selling or structured qualification methods such as BANT or MEDDICC.
Key Performance Indicators
- Outbound calls and quality conversations
- Target‑account coverage and prospecting activity
- Qualified leads generated
- Qualified meetings booked and held
- Lead‑to‑meeting conversion rate
- CRM accuracy and follow‑up compliance
- Pipeline contribution and sourced opportunities
- Monthly and quarterly SDR target attainment
Key Competencies
- Confident and persuasive communication
- Resilience and persistence
- Commercial curiosity
- Strong listening and questioning
- Structured follow‑through
- Goal orientation and accountability
- Professional presence and coachability
- Time management, prioritization, and teamwork
What We Offer
- Competitive salary and performance‑based incentives
- Structured sales training, coaching, and development
- Exposure to B2B sales and international business development
- Collaborative, performance‑focused work culture
- Career growth within a rapidly expanding international organization