Sales Development Representative

The essentials:

• Job title: Sales Development Representative
• Reports to: Head of Marketing
• Contract type: Permanent, full time
• Location: UK/Hybrid - must be able to travel to the office 2 / 3 times a week
• Salary: £35K - £45K DOE
  • Monthly bonus
• Start date: ASAP / July 1st

Our recent acquisition by IDP makes this a great time to join The Ambassador Platform: we'll continue to operate fully independently like we always have, but with more funds and resources to take the business to the next level. For Marketing and Sales, this means expanding and uniting the teams further to better nurture our leads, so they can see for themselves how our product could make their lives easier.

Reporting to the Head of Marketing but working super closely with the Chief Growth Officer and the rest of the Sales Team, you'll be the person who gives our leads the love they need through a mix of cold prospecting and nurturing of Marketing Qualified Leads. You'll be the key team member who builds relationships with prospects, who gets the Sales folks excited when somebody is ready to have a chat, and who tells the rest of the Marketing Team what's resonating with the target audience and what's missing the mark based on your conversations.

Success in this role will be measured by one simple metric: number of meetings booked for the sales team. And if you hit your realistic monthly target, you'll get a bonus!

As the business is already on track to achieve its ambitious growth targets, you'll get many opportunities to make your mark and grow alongside it - on our side, we'll make sure you have everything you need to develop, whether its internal and external training, or ongoing development conversations.

• Work closely with the Head of Marketing, the Marketing Operations Manager and the Sales Team to identify potential customers and generate new business opportunities.
• Prospect and qualify potential customers across The Ambassador Platform's core markets.
• Follow up on Marketing Qualified Leads to increase conversion rates across the funnel (and get more demos booked).
• Help the Sales team make the most of their business development trips by generating interest and getting meetings booked in advance.
• Use Hubspot to manage leads and sales activities, report on effectiveness and make suggestions on how to improve existing processes.

A bit about us:

The Ambassador Platform is peer-to-peer marketing and student recruitment platform for Higher Ed providers. It allows universities and colleges to connect prospective students with their ambassadors via chats, user-generated content, and video.

The impact is pretty cool, and means that, for the first time ever, Higher Ed providers have a simple solution for making the kind of student connections that mean that they can show what life at their institution is really like, helping prospective students make the best choice for their future.

Our technology is used by more than 150 institutions in 20 countries around the world and, to date, has supported millions of interactions between students. You can check out our customers here (https://www.theambassadorplatform.com/customers).

Our culture:

We work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. We operate a 'high trust, high performance, and high transparency' culture. We want everyone in the team to feel empowered to take responsibility and accountability for their own performance and the completion of work, while giving them flexibility for the management of their own time.

We also offer high visibility around progress and outcomes across the company, and everyone is expected and encouraged to highlight areas of improvement. Above all, we value the people we work with, building strong and lasting relationships, and are always friendly, kind and approachable.

The Ambassador Platform has recently been acquired by IDP Education. We still operate fully independently, but with the support of a globally renowned company behind us. We are headquartered in the UK and have offices in London, a remote team in Ukraine, and Brisbane. Find out what it's really like to work with us by chatting to our friendly team (https://www.theambassadorplatform.com/meet-the-team?utm_source=JobAd&utm_medium=JobDescription&utm_campaign=OpsExec) and see what we get up to on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/company/theaccessplatform).

A bit more about the job:

The Ambassador Platform is actively seeking a skilled SDR to join our dynamic team. Our peer-to-peer platform provides a unique space for prospective students to connect with student ambassadors through chat, user-generated content, and video. If you are passionate about leveraging technology to revolutionise the future of education, this role is for you.

Requirements:

• You have had a couple of years in sales, ideally in B2B tech or Education, including prospecting and nurturing warm leads.
• You're proactive and know how to build and maintain relationships with potential customers.

• You're comfortable working in a start-up environment, where things can change quickly and some processes are still work-in-progress

Nice-to-haves

• Previous experience with Hubspot would be a bonus.

We offer:

• The chance to work on The Ambassador Platform, a pioneering project designed to enhance the educational journey of students across the globe
• A culture that promotes personal growth and career development
• A management style that values open communication and collaborative teamwork