Business Development Representative (German Speaking)

SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 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: London | Hybrid

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SS&C Intralinks is a global technology provider of inter-enterprise content management and collaboration solutions. Its products serve the enterprise collaboration and strategic transaction markets, enabling the exchange, control, and management of information between organizations.

About the Team

The Intralinks EMEA Inside Sales team is growing! Join us to become part of an integral part of this new strategic team and grow the Alternative Investment business. Intralinks is an international, young, and fun organization which offers a great opportunity to develop your sales and negotiations skills in a competitive and dynamic environment. #WhatLinksUS

Why You Will Love It Here!

Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model

Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University

Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme

Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff

Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity

Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career

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 German and English (both written and spoken) is essential

Strong verbal & written communication skills

Active listening to asses 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

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.