Alba Wheels Up International is looking for a highly motivated individual with a talent for new customer engagement to become its Sales Development Representative (SDR). The SDR will play a critical role in driving company growth through lead generation by identifying, qualifying and booking meetings with high-potential prospects.
The successful candidate will be a self-motivated and driven individual who is goal-oriented, methodical, tenacious, and can effectively interact with a team.
Key Responsibilities
- Create and qualify target lists of new prospects by deep market research and analysis
- ‘Clean’ target lists to the extent possible, removing existing customers, duplicate records, out-of-bound geographies, and other disqualifying characteristics
- Collaborate closely with BD team to align prospecting efforts with growth strategies
- Input target lists and document all interactions or efforts to CRM
- Achieve daily outbound activity targets and KPI’s , as determined by supervisor and reporting as necessary
- Pursue target prospects via all available communication channels, ask clarifying questions to assess fit
- Network within target companies to reach the right decision-makers
- Overcome common objections to advance conversations
- Vet inbound leads received from Alba marketing efforts
- Contact past Alba customers to revive business relationships
- Pass qualified leads to the appropriate sales team for follow-up
- Book and schedule first meetings for the BD team, ensuring prospects and meetings are well-qualified and prepared for initial discussion by asking clarifying questions.
- Participate in first meetings booked with BD to initiate the handoff and learn about the selling process.
- Take notes during initial meeting for high level overview reporting in CRM
- Collaborate effectively with Sales and marketing
- Provide feedback to colleagues and leadership to improve processes and messaging role by gathering and relaying feedback from activities to highlight trends.
- Learn Alba’s growing portfolio of products and services
- Compose succinct, effective emails and other outbound communications
- Deliver relevant information and events invite to prospects to nurture the relationship and increase conversion rates
Requirements
- 1 to 2 years’ experience in Sales, Customer Service, lead generation or similar client facing role, preferably in freight forwarding and customs brokerage
- Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal
- Comfort using the telephone as primary means of outreach
- Highly organized and able to multitask efficiently
- Entrepreneurial and results-oriented mindset
- Desire to achieve sales objectives and targets
- Persistent, self-disciplined, and confident
- Energetic, eager to learn and coachable with a desire to advance career
- Proficient in MS Office and email systems
- Knowledge of CRM and Marketing Automation tools is a plus
- Ability to work well in fast-paced environment and pivot focus quickly
- Creatively problem-solve and overcome objective challenges
- Comfortable and disciplined to work independently while collaborating with the larger team
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid maternity leave
- Child care support