Overview
Aptean is seeking a Business Development Representative who will be based in our Sheffield office. In this role, You will be that all-important first point of contact for potential clients, you’ll identify new sales opportunities, pitch Aptean’s products, and build lasting customer relationships.
Key Responsibilities:
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Generate, qualify, and develop new business opportunities in defined target markets for specific Aptean product lines. This role will primarily use outbound tactics such as cold calling, social media outreach and email sends to generate a pipeline of leads from scratch.
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Outbound prospecting and cold calling, including strategic company/vertical targeting and personalized campaigns.
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E-mail, direct mail and outbound campaign generation and execution.
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Pipeline nurturing to generate opportunities over time.
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Qualify leads in or out of target market and into the appropriate point in sales cycle.
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Pipeline management and reporting.
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Deep account/contact profiling.
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Assist at trade shows and events as required.
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Produce weekly lead generation reports using tool.
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Ability to speak knowledgably to senior management and articulate a clear benefit case.
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The role might require up to 40% of travelling.
About you:
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Early career experience in sales, business development or customer service related roles.
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Self-motivated, high energy, dynamic inside sales and online presence.
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Competitive personality with a track record of over-achieving.
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Strong phone presence and ability to make dozens of calls per day.
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Attention to detail – values process and data integrity.
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Strong time management, organization, and prioritization skills.
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Creative and strong business acumen – must be able to communicate intelligently with senior contacts about their pain points and how Aptean’s solutions can address them.
Nice to have:
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Experience working with B2B software solutions.
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Outbound lead generation/business development experience is strongly preferred.
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Experience with sales tools including SalesLoft, ZoomInfo, Vidyard, etc. preferred.
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Prior experience or ability to develop deep understanding of one or more target industries in product line target market.
What we offer:
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Opportunity to grow within a global software company, which promotes work-life balance.
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Pension scheme.
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Life assurance.
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Private medical care.
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Income protection scheme.
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Hybrid working model (4 days in the office, 1 day from home).
About Aptean
At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow’s unique challenges today with unrivaled, purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care. Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. Aptean’ s purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors and other focused organizations. Aptean’ s compliance solutions are built for companies serving specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals, over 10,000 highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on Aptean to streamline their everyday operations.
“At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company.” –TVN Reddy
Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers, build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity, religion, disability or age.
Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing innovative solutions to our customer base.
