Job Description:
The Inside Sales Lead is responsible for lead generation, nurturing, qualification, and origination of qualified opportunities in the Merkle sales pipeline.
You will work closely with the Growth Officer, Marketing, and Enterprise Sales Leads to drive incremental, net-new pipeline for the organization against a set of targeted prospects for the clients we serve. You will also support the qualification of inbound leads from events, marketing promotions, and Merkle thought leadership campaigns.
You will be well versed on the capabilities they represent and able to identify cross-sell within other capabilities within the company. In this hybrid position, you will report to our Demand Generation Strategy Lead.
Key responsibilities:
Meet sales quota goals of generating new qualified opportunities and prospect engagements
Develop and execute high-volume lead generation campaigns specific to Merkle's services and assigned accounts
Originating and responding to new logo opportunities via an established lead management process
The ability to qualify opportunities and align prospect needs to Merkle's capabilities
Working with Sales Growth Officers and Enterprise Sales Leaders to drive new logo revenue
Drive prospect and client engagements in support of Merkle's thought leadership and events
Ensure accuracy and timeliness of the established Salesforce processes for prospects and opportunities
Work closely with Marketing to ensure the availability of suitable collaterals for offerings
A solid ability to build relationships, immediately and over time, with economic buyers, decision-makers, operators, and influencers across large, complex enterprise organizations
A solid ability to build internal relationships with key stakeholders and business partners
Analyzes customer business goals, objectives, needs, processes, and existing capabilities
Applies business outcome-based sales principles and demonstrates relevant and transferable company experience in developing, leading, and executing lead-generation campaigns
Understand the prospect and client decision-making process and organizational map
Establishes trusted relationships with senior executive buyers and other client executives to originate new opportunities to position our capabilities
Develops and maintains an accurate, high-quality pipeline that's aligned with our company's sales process
Travel
Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university
5 years of consultative sales experience in marketing technology and agency services
Experience originating and qualifying extensive, complex sales opportunities
Knowledge and understanding of the database marketing and agency marketplace
Knowledge and an understanding of the marketing cloud and ad-tech marketplace
Ability to propose solid solutions to meet customer requirements
Must have solid knowledge of Marketing Technology, Data and Analytics, and Digital Agency
Experience in or more of the following verticals: Financial Services, Insurance, Travel, Media, Entertainment, Non-Profit, High Tech or Retail
Strong ability and desire to prospect and nurture relationships of account decision-makers
History of success working within an individual and team environment
Must have a history of quota attainment
Strong collaboration capabilities are critical to this role
Additional Information:
The anticipated salary range for this position is $94,000 - $152,375. Placement within the salary range is based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills, and other factors permitted by law. Additionally, this position is eligible for commission following the terms of the company's plan in effect at the time the commission is earned.
Benefits available with this position include:
Medical, vision, and dental insurance,
Life insurance,
Short-term and long-term disability insurance,
401k,
Flexible paid time off,
At least 15 paid holidays per year,
Paid sick and safe leave, and
Paid parental leave
Dentsu also complies with applicable state and local laws regarding employee leave benefits, including, but not limited to providing time off pursuant to the Colorado Healthy Families and Workplaces Act, in accordance with its plans and policies. For further details regarding Dentsu benefits, please visit www.dentsubenefitsplus.com.
To begin the application process, please click on the "Apply" button at the top of this job posting. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, and qualified candidates will be contacted for next steps.
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Location:
USA - Remote - MarylandBrand:
MerkleTime Type:
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