Canonical is hiring a
Sales Development Representative

Summary

The job involves handling inbound customer inquiries, executing outbound sales and marketing campaigns, traveling to events and conferences, collaborating with teams, researching prospective customers, generating a multi-million pound pipeline, identifying prospects and market trends, and helping define team processes. The ideal candidate should have excellent academic results, passion for business and technology, commitment to continuous learning, creative problem solving skills, verbal and written communication skills, be result driven, persistent, and perseverant. Canonical offers a competitive base pay, additional benefits such as personal learning and development budget, annual compensation review, recognition rewards, annual holiday leave, parental leave, employee assistance programme, opportunity to travel to new locations, priority pass for travel, and travel upgrades for long haul company events.

Requirements

• Excellent academic results at school and university
• Passion for business and technology
• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement - curious, flexible, scientific
• Creative problem solving and cross team collaboration
• Verbal and written communication skills
• Result driven with an over-achiever spirit
• Persistence & perseverance

Responsibilities

• Handle inbound customer inquiries across email, phone and chat
• Execute outbound sales & marketing campaigns
• Travel to events and conferences worldwide, presenting on booths and driving face-to-face marketing and sales opportunities
• Collaborate across multiple teams and senior stakeholders to drive results
• Work directly with marketing on campaigns
• Research information about prospective customers
• Generate a multi-million pound pipeline
• Identify prospects and market trends
• Help define the processes and policies for the team
• Liaise with new and existing customers, setting up and attending meetings whilst actively mapping accounts to identify new opportunities
• Accurately create, update, maintain and nurture leads on global opportunities

Benefits

• Base pay depends on various factors including geographical location, level of experience, knowledge and skills
• Additional benefits such as personal learning and development budget, annual compensation review, recognition rewards, annual holiday leave, parental leave, employee assistance programme, opportunity to travel to new locations, priority pass for travel, and travel upgrades for long haul company events