Sales Development Representative

Zest Leatherhead, England, United Kingdom

Zest Leatherhead, England, United Kingdom

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Salary Range: £30,000 - £35,000 per annum

Permanent, Full Time

Location:

Hybrid with a minimum of three days per week at our office in Leatherhead, Surrey.

About us

Zest is transforming the way employers engage with their people. Our market leading SaaS platform empowers businesses to deliver a world class employee proposition, allowing employees to tailor their benefits package, understand their total reward, access personalised content and communications and celebrate their colleagues’ achievements. Our platform supports hundreds of employers, including household names like Yahoo, Hargreaves Lansdown and Travis Perkins, create a workplace where employees feel valued, informed and deeply connected to their company’s success.

We’re proud to boast an impressive NPS of over +72%, a testament to our commitment to outstanding client and end-user experiences. But what truly sets us apart is our culture. Here at Zest, we foster a work environment that’s as friendly as it is professional, as high-performing as it is supportive. We’re a team that thrives on empowerment, autonomy, and the support each member needs to excel.

Our doors are open to those who bring a natural drive to excel in their discipline, who challenge the status quo, and who drive continuous improvement. We celebrate achievements, learn openly from failures, and set a high bar for ourselves and our peers. If you’re ready to contribute to a positive, dynamic team that helps each other grow, Zest might just be the place for you.

About the job

As a Sales Development Representative, you’ll be the key to us unlocking doors with SME, Mid-Cap & Enterprise Businesses starting conversations on how can help them cut down on administration, help retain & engage their employees to really get the most out of all their benefits. You’ll be the first person contacts at these businesses hear from, and it’ll be your job to build relationships and nurture them through to face to face meetings with our Business Development Directors.

Areas of responsibility

• B2B outbound appointment setting with key business stakeholders – you will manage a pipeline of existing and past prospects, with the goal of re-engaging the customer and nurturing them through to a stakeholder meeting
• Pursuing your monthly target to support the commercial team’s overall target
• Cultivating meaningful relationships with your prospects via phone, email, networking events, etc
• Identify and nurture leads to successfully pass onto the Enterprise Sales team to meet face to face
• Working closely with the Marketing team to grow our leads pipeline and maximise visibility in the reward and benefits space
• Book meetings with 250+ employee target companies through outbound activity
• Maintain awareness of and comply with all legal requirements and company policies, including those relating to information security and data protection
• Responsibly handle, classify and manage all information, whether internal or received from external parties.

Key competencies and skills required for this role

Tele Sales: A self starter who is good at opening doors, gaining attention of buyers and securing appointments

Commercial Awareness:
Able to gain a deep understanding of the needs of the prospects and ensure that sales calls have the desired outcome

Self-starter: A natural Self starter who is results focussed

Business Intelligence:
Know all about Zest product and services. Ability to learn everything about the competition and market. Understand our competitive advantages and USPs.

Technology: Adept in using all standard MS Office systems, Hubspot and other Zest tools. Ability to understand the advantages of the technology that underpins Zest and competitive weakness

Drive, Energy and Determination: Winning mentality. Able to create a culture of…