Associate Business Development Manager
About this role
Associate Business Development Manager – Spain
Location: Madrid
Reporting: Head of Sales – Spain
The opportunity
Convera is a global leader in commercial payments that powers international business by moving money with ease. This role is a great opportunity to progress in your sales career through different business development roles as well as explore other opportunities across the GTM business.
The role:
To succeed in this role, we are looking for resilient, motivated individuals with a tenacious and competitive mindset to work on all aspects of the sales cycle, from prospecting clients with low interest, through a full “discovery” stage, to a client trading habitually.
As a trusted business partner, you will focus on building effective long term, mutually beneficial and profitable relationships with clients from SMB to Corporations in Spain by growing the business and extending the reach of Convera’s products & services to achieve new business revenue.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead Generation & Prospecting
• Use your deep knowledge of Convera’s value proposition to attract new leads to build a suitable pipeline, while also understanding the needs, challenges, and requirements that prospects/clients face when trading overseas • Achieve Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) such as revenue setting targets, and report them on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis to drive new business • Focus on [Small-to-Medium-Sized Enterprise (SME)] business acquisition(s), with businesses with FX turnover and/or payment exposure by aligning with Partners under the direction of Sr. BDMs, Head of Desk, or Sales Leaders • Proactively seek new business opportunities in the market, through cold calls, attending networking events, referrals, exhibitions, and through our internal sources (e.g., LinkedIn Sales Navigator and/or [D&B hoovers]) for researching companies • Use sales enablement tools, such as Salesforce, with a focus on maximining effectiveness by using sales tech stack such as Highspot, Zoom Info, to generate new sales opportunities and partnership with your dedicated Demand Generator, manage a pipeline of varied opportunities (i.e., in terms of company/need/solution required), and progress that pipeline by ensuring that a targeted number of meetings are being completed, and client Application Forms are being returned • Create business proposals to articulate the benefits of our product range and consultatively guide prospects/clients to additional products & services and appropriate solutions