About this role
About the Opportunity
At Contentful, we are always searching for top candidates to join our global team of Business Development Reps. We are particularly interested in individuals who would like to pursue a career in sales who can work with our UKI customer base.
This is a speculative job description, and an immediate opening may not be available. However, we still encourage interested candidates to apply. On a proactive basis, our recruitment team will do our best to get in touch with you to discuss your profile and explain more about Contentful. We will keep your application on file should a suitable opportunity arise.
This position is one of the first touch-points that our UKI customers and potential prospects will have with the Contentful brand. This role requires an organized and motivated individual to understand how Contentful can help organizations drive digital transformation and best-in-class customer experiences. As a Business Development Representative for the UKI region, you will gain experience interacting with customers of all levels across various industries. You will work closely with assigned Regional Sales Executives and supporting teams to hunt new business. If you are interested in transitioning into tech sales or starting your career in sales, this is the perfect role to take in learning all the necessary skills for a successful career!
Part of this unique opportunity includes attending our Contentful training program. This program focuses on developing highly skilled professionals within our organization. This is a multi-step learning and skill development program with hands-on training to help you scale up your skills.
Please note this is an onsite role. Our office is located in Central London.
What to expect?
• Focus on lead generation within the UKI market
• Gain in-depth knowledge of customers, industry, and Contentful’s solution offerings
• Proactively engage with and reach out to new prospects
• Lead generation activities, including strategic research on LinkedIn, among other hunting tools and outbound prospecting, calling, emailing, and social outreach
• Collaborate with assigned Account Executives, handing off qualified prospects
• Successfully reach pipeline targets on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis
• Build relationships with key decision-makers across a number of industries
What do you need to be successful?
• Minimum 6-9 months outbound BDR experience
• Full written and oral fluency in English
• College / University Degree educated
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Seeks to understand the customer’s needs, objectives and challenges
• Ability to proactively qualify customer needs
• Ability to understand the business opportunity, and to articulate it to the sales team, by understanding the prospect’s use case and requirements well and how Contentful fits into the customer’s goals
• Ability to build rapport with pros