Business Development Representative - French Speaking

Summary

Join Smartsheet as a French Speaking Business Development Representative and contribute to sales pipeline generation and revenue growth. You will prospect, engage, and qualify potential customers, setting the stage for the sales cycle. This role refines your prospecting and discovery skills, supporting Commercial and Large Enterprise teams. Based in our London office with hybrid work options, you will report to the Business Development Manager. The position involves generating sales opportunities, managing outbound campaigns, recording activities in Salesforce, monitoring social media for leads, leveraging sales techniques, and maintaining high activity levels to qualify and create sales. Additional responsibilities include performing other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Fluency in French is required
• Proactive, independent thinker and creative problem solver with high energy/positive attitude
• The ability to think critically and make decisions independent of managerial oversight
• Salesforce.com or similar CRM experience
• Must be able to interact, adapt and communicate with individuals at all levels of the organisation
• Desire to learn new skills and build a career in software sales
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced startup environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to adapt and execute new sales and qualification strategies
• Ability to create leads and opportunities from individual prospecting efforts
• 1+ years SAAS or relevant sales experience
• Sales engagement platforms, Outreach/Salesloft experience
• Legally eligible to work in the UK on an ongoing basis

Responsibilities

• Generate selling opportunities by independently identifying companies and contacts that would be a good fit for our services and making decisions to reach out to them via email, linkedin, cold calling and/or using our other sophisticated software sales tools
• Independently create and manage multiple outbound sequence campaigns in our sales engagement platform
• Record and document all activity in Salesforce.com
• Monitor the social web for opportunities and leads as well as participate in outbound social marketing initiatives
• Leverage taught sales techniques to maximise prospect interactions
• Maintain high level of activity with the intent to qualify and create exponential sales
• Perform other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

Experience selling in the EMEA region is highly desirable

Benefits

• Employer-paid Private Medical and Dental, additional cost for family members
• Monthly contributions toward your pension
• Monthly stipend to support your work and productivity
• 25 days paid for Holiday + Bank Holidays + Flexible Time Away Program
• 20 weeks fully paid Maternity Leave
• 12 weeks fully paid Paternity/Adoption Leave
• Personal paid Volunteer Day to support our community
• Opportunities for professional growth and development including access to Udemy online courses
• Company Funded Perks including a counseling membership, salary sacrifice options, and your own personal Smartsheet account
• Teleworking options from any registered location in the UK (role specific)