Sales Development Representative [gn] Eastern Europe

Actian is reaching new heights under the seasoned leadership and innovative process of some of the industry’s brightest minds. Led by board members from HCL Technologies Actian has developed ground-breaking hybrid data solutions to enable digital transformation with global scale and reach.  With over 500 employees and $100M in annual revenue, Actian has a well-rounded portfolio of products and solutions spanning data management, integration, and analytics, activating the value of hybrid data for enterprises in financial services, retail, telecommunications, media, healthcare, and manufacturing.
Who We Are Looking For:
We are looking for the future’s top salespeople so if you have a passion for sales, an eagerness to learn and grow, and love to run at a fast pace, this is the role for you. As a Sales Development Representative (SDR), you will be strategizing with your Sales Development Representatives, reaching out to both Mid-Market and Fortune 1000 companies, and providing valued insights and stories that showcase Actian technology and unique value proposition. With Actian’s data technology fueling your day-to-day analytics to support your selling + our investments in innovative sales automation tools at your fingertips, you will be responsible for prospecting new business, continually learning new skills that will prepare you for the fast track into more senior sales roles in the future – including Senior SDR roles, Territory outside sales, and Enterprise Account Executive roles. 
Sales Development Representative Eastern Europe:

Qualify:

• Gather information needed to qualify the prospects and document the information into a winning sales plan in salesforce.com 
• Stay organized and synthesize and report learnings from your client interactions on a regular basis to sales management, account executives – and take ownership to convert small data points & interactions into a new sales opportunity Working in a sales team environment, with SDR’s, Account Executives, Technical engineering, and Renewal/Customer success. The Business Development Representative is the ‘tip of the spear’ that makes the best first impression with all new prospective customers – you get the meeting & create the best first impression
• Utilize cutting-edge front-line sales & prospecting tools (including Actian Avalanche -Customer 360) to creatively plan and connect with prospective customers
• Prospect: Identify and prioritize accounts that are most likely to generate revenue based on your territory and teaming with local sales management, account executives, and Actian’s ideal customer profile.   You will have the most cutting-edge technology enabling prospect scoring/prioritization (example – digital web traffic, highly engaged prospects that require higher outreach)
• Outreach: Plan how to get in touch with accounts and conduct outreach in a modern sales methodology and capacity.  Utilize best first impression across multi-channel selling to differentiate Actian (phone, email, social media). Call into strategic accounts with a defined requirement that you have identified via our demand analytics tools, and/or through your 1:1 research of the account needs via tools provided
• Engage: Build relationships and generate engagement/awareness with key decision makers, adapting messaging to the different stakeholders, making sure they understand the value we bring and get excited about Actian’s cutting edge technology 
• Sell: discovery prospective customer pain points and be prepared to tell the Actian story & a few customers success stories to clearly differentiate why Actian is a game changer in multi-cloud data & analytics

Key objectives:

• Qualify accounts, including multiple prospects within one account/department leading to new sales opportunity creation – manage and develop leads in your territory in a strategic manner
• Lead account and prospect research to build a world-class customer database for your territory in an organized manner utilizing advanced prospecting tools at your fingertips
• Contribute to and develop key messaging and content to drive repeatability against our Ideal Customer Profile, Targeted Personas, and 1:1 Account ABM
• Consistently achieve qualified meeting/opportunity creation quota and productivity goals for your territory
• Manage an organized territory plan, and maintain Salesforce.com with precision to represent your territory to sales management and roll-up clean reports for the entire sales extended team follow-up and management of identified opportunities

What you'll need to be successful:

• 2 years + of sales or service experience. Prior track record of Sales Development role success is prefer