SALES DEVELOPMENT REPRESENTATIVE

Equipment Depot; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 48,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Equipment Depot seeks a results-oriented Sales Development Representative (SDR) to identify and screen potential customers for our material handling solutions. As the first point of contact, you will research leads, initiate relationships, and set our sales closers up for success.

The role offers growth into a core sales team within a fast-paced environment and a chance to learn the MH industry. You will generate leads, nurture warm prospects, and maintain a robust pipeline while collaborating

Qualifications

• Experience generating leads and building sales pipelines.
• Familiar with CRM processes and sales cycles.
• Proficient in researching prospects and initiating contact.
• Strong communication and relationship-building abilities.

Responsibilities

• Represent products and services to identify customer needs.
• Generate leads and nurture warm prospects.
• Manage a pipeline and coordinate with Territory Managers.
• Identify best practices to improve lead generation.
• Meet weekly and monthly lead generation quotas.
• Collaborate with Branch Management and Sales Leadership.

Skills

Lead generation

Prospecting

CRM proficiency

Cold calling

Sales research

Relationship building

Communication skills

Omnichannel outreach

Tools

SugarCRM

LinkedIn

Job description

Position Summary

At Equipment Depot, we know that the key to growth is in a high-performing sales team. That’s why we’re seeking a qualified sales development representative (SDR) to find and screen potential customers who can benefit from our products and services. As the first line of communication with prospects, ideal SDRs have a strong understanding of the sales process, excelling at researching leads, starting new relationships, handling short cycle transactions, and embrace setting our sales closers up for success. You should be a quick learner with strong communication skills, and have the ability to showcase our strategic singular offering in a compelling way. Every potential customer is an opportunity for you to boost top-line revenue growth, customer acquisition levels, and profitability. The SDR position is a great opportunity to learn and understand the material handling industry, and grow to become an integral part of the core sales team.

Position Summary

At Equipment Depot, we know that the key to growth is in a high-performing sales team. That’s why we’re seeking a qualified sales development representative (SDR) to find and screen potential customers who can benefit from our products and services. As the first line of communication with prospects, ideal SDRs have a strong understanding of the sales process, excelling at researching leads, starting new relationships, handling short cycle transactions, and embrace setting our sales closers up for success. You should be a quick learner with strong communication skills, and have the ability to showcase our strategic singular offering in a compelling way. Every potential customer is an opportunity for you to boost top-line revenue growth, customer acquisition levels, and profitability. The SDR position is a great opportunity to learn and understand the material handling industry, and grow to become an integral part of the core sales team.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Functions Statement(s)

• Represent our company’s products and services, starting with a comprehensive understanding and leading to consumer research to identify how our solutions meet needs
• Generate leads and build relationships by nurturing warm prospects and finding new potential sales outlets
• Manage and maintain a pipeline of interested prospects and engage sales executives for next steps
• Identify best practices to refine the company’s lead generation process
• Increase transactional sales volume for Material Handling (MH) Class III ITA Units, Allied/Catalogue equipment, and new Preventative/Contract Maintenance Agreements on competitive OEM (MH) Forklifts
• Increase market awareness through an Omnichannel approach entailing, internet research, LinkedIn, cold-calling
• Utilize Sugar CRM, Internet Research, LinkedIn, Inside BDR, cold calling, and email to generate new sales opportunities
• Identify prospect's needs and suggest appropriate products/services
• Build long-term trusting relationships with prospects to qualify leads as sales opportunities Proactively seek new business opportunities in the market
• Set up meetings or calls between (prospective) customers and Territory Managers
• Achieve assigned Lead Generation quota on a weekly, monthly basis
• Achieve Transactional sales quota on MH Class III, Allied/Catalogue equipment, and Service/PM Contracts on a monthly and quarterly basis.
• Report to Field Sales Manager (FSM) with weekly, monthly, and quarterly results
• Actively collaborate with Branch Management, Sales Leadership, Territory Managers, and Equipment Specialist’s