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Sales Development Representative Jobs in Chicago, IL at LinkedIn
Title: Sales Development Representative
Company: LinkedIn
Location: Chicago, IL
Company DescriptionLinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.
Join us to transform the way the world works.
Job DescriptionThis role will be based in San Francisco, New York or Chicago.
At LinkedIn, we approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.
As a Sales Development Representative, you will assist in generating new business by qualifying inbound leads and driving various outbound campaigns but, more importantly, you will focus on the development of the individuals qualifying those leads. Sales Development roles exist in each of the LinkedIn divisions (see below).
LinkedIn’s Talent Solutions (talent.linkedin.com) help companies find and engage the best talent using the world’s largest professional network. LinkedIn Talent Solutions provides innovative recruiting tools to help our customers become more successful at talent acquisition.
LinkedIn provides to the customers the opportunity to change the hiring and selling process, through our Corporate Solutions. As a Sales Development Representative, you will assist in generating new business opportunities by qualifying inbound leads and/or driving various outbound campaigns and creating the pipeline for the growing business in the region.
What You’ll Do:
Qualify and develop inbound and/or outbound sales leads
Run campaigns to generate new sales prospects
Complete accurate tracking of communication with current and potential customers in SalesForce.com
Work with the Account Executive team to design industry-specific outbound efforts and define the best strategy to approach new leads
Schedule demonstrations between account executives and potential customers
Use the best social selling techniques (Sales Navigator) to identify sales leads and be able to prospect into them
High volume of calls with Decision Makers to identify the “pain”, which could be addressed by LinkedIn Corporate Solutions
Responsible for the majority of the Account Executive pipeline
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
1+ years of professional and/or internship experience in sales, marketing, recruiting, lead generation, inside/outside sales or related experience in a quota-carrying role.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working with Salesforce.com or other CRM platforms
Expert knowledge of MS Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel)
Excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational and telephone skills
Ability to effectively manage time, prioritize tasks and work within deadlines with little supervision
Ability to analyze business opportunities and read situations well
Ability to gather and use data to inform decision making and persuade others
Ability to develop compelling strategies that deliver re…
