Business Development Representative

This role will funnel the leads to a sales representative to further qualify and close the sale. This position is purely a lead generation role and will not be responsible for further steps in the sales cycle.

Responsibilities:

• Leverage proven prospecting techniques to initiate contact with prospective new clients in financial services, insurance, utilities, mortgage and retirement services.
• Generate interest in a discovery meeting with an established RRD Sales Executive.
• Identify multiple contact points within a supplied list of targets and position the value proposition of our products and services to entice the prospect to learn more about RRD through a discovery meeting.
• Conduct online research to better understand the prospect and contact points business objectives to better position RRD services.
• Generate a high-value sales pipeline through both strategic and targeted prospecting for financial services, insurance, utilities, mortgage and retirement services.
• Collaborate with the sales team to develop a list of target prospects
• Develop and run a pipeline of prospects and provide top-class customer experience
• Effectively & smoothly transition a lead to an account executive following the first discovery meeting
• Actively utilize Salesforce for all activities related to Lead Generation
• Meet with Sales Leaders to evaluate strategy

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Business, Communication, or related field preferred.
• A minimum of 2 years of experience in sales and telemarketing with an emphasis on cold calling.
• Demonstrated ability to actively manage multiple tasks in an efficient manner
• Must be goal-oriented, persuasive, self-motivated, and an independent worker
• Experience with cold calling techniques and the use of Salesforce CRM technology to organize, track, and document activity.
• Candidates must be comfortable using multiple techniques and channels for reaching their contact points including but not limited to email, phone, social media, mail, etc.
• Ability to position different RRDs services to the different contact points within the same prospect account
• Strong time management and organizational skills
• Demonstrated ability to work independently
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Results Driven
• Persistence
• Persuasive
• Prospecting Skills
• Excellent Telephone Sales
• Understand how to solve business needs
• Demonstrated ability to close new business
• Objection Handling
• Resiliency and ability to handle rejections
• Professionalism