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Are you looking for an opportunity to apply your skills and talent to spark both innovation and positive social change? Symend is a rapidly growing fintech company that combines behavioral science with advanced AI, data, and analytics capabilities to enable companies to engage at-risk customers more effectively and humanely. By creating better ways to approach individuals with empathy and dignity at the time when they need it most, Symend’s employees are helping to transform the science of customer engagement and improve lives in North America and around the world.
The Opportunity
As a Business Development Rep (BDR) you will assist the Symend Sales & Marketing teams through initial research and lead generation. Your primary objective is to set up introductory meetings via inbound and outbound prospecting with companies interested in Symend’s Conscious Engagement solution.
What You'll Do:
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Account level research - account info, contact info, etc...
- Contacting and qualifying leads through email / LinkedIn / phone
- Scheduling meetings and follow-ups
- Documentation of all activities in required platforms (Salesforce, Gong, etc.)
- Being the first point of contact and educating leads to help generate increased interest that lead to a hand off to our Account Executives to close
- Manage your own pipeline of opportunities
- Anticipating needs and concerns of potential clients and maintaining a knowledge of problems and issues that they are facing in their work
- Other sales and business development type activities as assigned
What You'll Need:
Education:
- BA in Marketing, Business or Communications
Experience:
- Previous experience with lead generation and cold calling, would be an asset
- Experience with Salesforce or other CRM would be considered an asset
Key Competencies and Skills:
- Highly motivated, passionate and able to keep a positive attitude
- Comfortable with initiating contact in cold call scenarios, as well as in-person such as at a tradeshow
- Experience articulating value propositions via phone and email
- Able to identify and qualify sales opportunities
- Capable of understanding customer pain points, requirements and correlating potential business value that can be provided by Symend
- Strong and professional communication skills -- written, verbal, presentation
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with a geographically dispersed sales and marketing team
Don’t meet every single requirement? At Symend we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
Why Symend?
We could tell you all about our competitive compensation, flexible work environment, social Fridays, and awesome team events, but working at Symend is so much more than that!
Working at Symend means being part of a driven and collaborative team that values trust, accountability and continuous learning. We work hard, but always make time for fun!
You get the chance to do work that matters on a product that truly changes lives!
About Symend
At Symend, we believe that all customers should be treated with empathy and dignity. That’s why we leverage our deep understanding of consumer behavior to create personalized interactions that better engage and empower customers at all points of the customer journey. Our digital engagement platform uses behavioral science, data science and advanced analytics to help our clients build stronger relationships with their customers. Symend: The science of engagement.™
At Symend, we believe that all customers should be treated with empathy and dignity. That’s why we leverage our deep understanding of consumer behavior to create personalized interactions that better engage and empower customers at all points of the customer journey. Our digital engagement platform uses behavioral science, data science and advanced analytics to help our clients build stronger relationships with their customers. Symend: The science of engagement.™
Symend’s relationship-based approach keeps enterprises attuned to the changing needs of their customers and empowers them to take action. This increases customer satisfaction, lowers operating costs, and helps resolve past due bills before reaching collections.
Founded in 2016, Symend’s platform is purpose built to serve complex global enterprises in telecommunications, financial services, utilities and media. Symend is headquartered in Calgary and privately held, with global operations across Canada, the United States and Latin America.
Symend: The science of engagement.™
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