Business Development Representative

Description

Summary: This Business Development Representative identifies and develops new opportunities, generates demand through outbound prospecting, and qualifies leads for the sales organization. Highlights: 1. Identify and develop new sales opportunities via outbound prospecting. 2. Utilize email, social media, and chat for demand generation. 3. Engage with buyer personas to determine buying groups. As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS\&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000\+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid\-market firms, rely on SS\&C for expertise, scale, and technology. **Job Description** **Job Description** **Business Development Representative** **Locations** : Madrid \| Hybrid **What You Will Get** **To** **Do:** *The BDR* *is responsible for* *identifying* *and developing new opportunities for the Account Executive to pursue. BDRs generate demand primarily via outbound prospecting into assigned accounts, territories or buying* *centers* *. In addition to tele, BDRs use a spectrum of tactics including email, social* *media* *and chat. In organizations with limited scale, BDRs also have responsibilities to further qualify inbound demand generated by marketing and scored using a marketing automation platform (MAP)* **Your Responsibilities:** * Generate new demand (e.g. individual leads and/or buying groups) for the sales organization to pursue * Qualify demand (e.g. individual leads and/ or buying groups) against established criteria before passing a lead to field sales as Sales Accepted Leads (SALs) or qualified demand units * Discover, validate and reach out to additional personas typically involved in a buying decision to determine possible buying groups for delivery to field sales * Nurture predetermined groups of prospects back from field or channel sales by using multiple touch tactics (e.g. telephone, email, social) * As a secondary responsibility – where specified by the organization – process inbound demand using a range of tactics (e.g. telephone, email, social) * Comply with all demand management– related service\-level agreements * Provide accurate weekly forecasts to marketing and sales on the volume of qualified demand expected to reach the SAL stage or qualified demand stage * Track and manage prospecting, qualification and nurture activities in the company’s sales force automation (SFA) system * Reach and have meaningful, productive conversations with individuals representing the buyer personas targeted by the organization **Dimensions of the Role** **:** * Organisational interlocks: Field Sales, Channel Sales, Pre\-Sales, Field Marketing, Marketing Operations, Sales Operations, Product Marketing, Product Marketing * Technologies Supporting the role: SalesForce , SalesLoft, LeadIQ , Lusha, Linkedin Sales Navigator, full Microsoft Office suite * Success Metrics: Accepted \& Converted Sales Accepted Leads (SALs), new opportunities \& influenced opportunities * KPIs: Number of appointments set, percentage of set appointments accepted by sales, percentage converted to opportunities) Opportunity value generated from demand passed, Revenue value achieved from demand passed, Call quality with target buyer personas and buying groups \& activity levels (e.g. talk time, dial and connect volumes, emails sent, social engagement) **What You Will Bring:** * Bachelor ’ s degree desired * Two to three years of prospecting experience, depending on the complexity of the product/ solution being sold, as well as the level of prospect being called (e.g. IT buyer vs. CXO) * B2B experience * Familiarity with MAPs and CRM systems * Experience in an industry with a significant volume of customer/prospect interaction **Additional Skills, Experience, Languages** **:** * Fluency in Spanish and English at a minimum professional level is required for this role. * Strong verbal \& written communication skills * Active listening to asse s s prospect needs \& opportunities * Ability to articulate a high\-quality value proposition on every call * Ability to perform prospect \& account research to prepare for calls * Ability to use existing and emerging social media tools to monitor targeted accounts and buying groups, and identify trigger events for follow\-up * Discipline and energy to maintain high activity volumes (e.g. a minimum of 30 outbound calls and 25 additional outbound touches per day) * A desire for a career in tech sales and ambition to progress **Knowledge** **:** * Telephone prospecting techniques * Email prospecting techniques (based around personalization \& targeted outreach) * LinkedIn Sales Navigator \& social selling techniques * SalesLoft \& SFDC experience * Lead management processes *We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.* Thank you for your interest in SS\&C! If applicable, to further explore this opportunity, please apply directly with us through our Careers page on our corporate website @ www.ssctech.com/careers . Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS\&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee\-based recruitment services. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. SS\&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.