Associate Business Development Representative

Have a passion to help people improve their quality of life through delivering world class services? Join us at Sodexo where we touch 100 million people across 56 countries every day, continually seeking new and innovative ways to exceed their expectations. Our purpose is serving people, where your impact can be felt not only on individuals but also on society and the planet. We’re looking for an Associate Business Development Representative based remotely who is excited to help find opportunities, wants to learn and grow, and is interested in advancing their own career.

Have a passion to help people improve their quality of life through delivering world class services? Join us at Sodexo where we touch 100 million people across 56 countries every day, continually seeking new and innovative ways to exceed their expectations. Our purpose is serving people, where your impact can be felt not only on individuals but also on society and the planet. We’re looking for an Associate Business Development Representative based remotely who is excited to help find opportunities, wants to learn and grow, and is interested in advancing their own career with Sodexo!

This is a Remote Role!

Candidates should reside in one of the following metropolitan areas:

Silicon Valley/San Francisco, CA or Austin, TX

The Associate Business Development Representative will support the Corporate Services segment in targeted account development for Food and Facilities Management services in key sectors to help grow new business revenue. They will be responsible for outbound outreach to new clients in order to pre-qualify, build, and nurture pipeline for Segment Sales. The Associate Business Development Representative will grow this new business by identifying and working a target list of prospective clients through phone, email, social, web and other digital applications to generate qualified opportunities. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to begin in business development, gain some experience in sales and lead generation while working for a stable mature company.

The ideal candidate will:

• Identify leads through targeted outreach via phone, email, web, social, and internal systems (Outreach.io)
• Prospect and build pipeline within target market
• Attend and participate in team, segment, and other relevant reoccurring meetings
• Participate in selection process of new associates; assist in on-boarding and mentoring associate level, rep level and peer level employees as we build the team

• Not afraid to take initiative, pick up the phone and learn

The ideal candidate will have:

• Very strong work ethic, self-motivated – ability to meet or exceed quota while working remotely

• 0-1 year of prospecting or sales experience
• Ability to advance and close transactional sales through high velocity engagements within a small to midsized target market
• Experience working in Food Service or Facilities Management Services helpful
• Outbound prospecting experience helpful
• Experience running lead generation campaigns and multi-touch cadences a bonus

• Experience collaborating with a field sales team with lead handoff
• Experience working with Salesforce.com, App savvy: Smart with technology, Chrome extensions, video, chat, and other sales productivity tools

Additional keys to success:

• Demonstrated experience presenting, communicating and delivering your thoughts with power
• Ability to initiate and nurture collaborative relationships with segment sales and marketing leaders
• Proven ability to multi-task, prioritize, and manage time effectively, including ability to manage multiple, concurrent sales cycles
• Excellent verbal, written, communications and presentation skills
• Forecasting and delivering results that meet/exceed plan

• Full proficiency of pipeline management and dashboards.
• Work Ethic - proactively pursue opportunities with high energy/stamina with demonstrated passion for your solutions, customers, and goal attainment
• Desire to expand professional knowledge of product and sales skills
• Strong organizational, planning and problem skills
• Mastery of Microsoft PowerPoint, MSWord, Excel and Outlook

• Ability to influence and gain alignment and support from others

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The Associate Business Development Representative will support the Corporate Services segment in targeted account development for Food and Facilities Management services in key sectors to help grow new business revenue. They will be responsible for outbound outreach to new clients in order to pre-qualify, build, and nurture pipeline for Segment Sales. The Business Development Representative will grow this new business by identifying and working a target list of prospective clients through phone, email, social, web and other digital applications to generate qualified opportunities. They will also be responsible for driving and closing smaller transactional revenue opportunities in high velocity engagements within a small-mid-sized target markets.

- Develop outbound account-based campaigns in conjunction with Marketing and Segment Sales
- Identify leads through targeted outreach via phone, email, web, social, and internal systems (Outreach.io). Volume expectations to be confirmed as appropriate at level.
- Advance and close transactional sales through high velocity engagements within a small to mid-sized target market.
- Attend and participate in Team, Segment, and other relevant reoccurring meetings

Basic Education Requirement - Associate's Degree or equivalent experience

Basic Functional Experience - 2 years of experience

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