Sales Development Representative I

Yamaha Corporation is committed to helping everyone progress, express, and connect through music and sound. They are seeking a Sales Development Representative I to drive business growth by identifying and qualifying potential sales opportunities, while developing relationships with stakeholders and prospects.

Responsibilities:

• Find and ensure lead targets are achieved
• Enable the portability of education institution prospects to sales team
• Deliver positive district manager value
• Develop relationships with stakeholders and prospects
• Identify and research potential customers through various methods
• Develop and maintain a pipeline of qualified leads for education institution sales teams
• Respond to inbound inquiries, qualifying leads, and determining customer needs
• Document and schedule lead activity in CRM system
• Report and communicate lead activity to stakeholders
• Function as a sales contact for prospective customers and sales team

Requirements:

• Experience in providing customer service
• Excellent verbal communication skills and phone presence
• Experience with communication skills, phone presence, multi-tasking, prioritizing and managing time
• Able to travel up to 10% of the time
• Experience with office productivity software
• Experience with higher education
• Experience with school websites, professional associations, and LinkedIn
• Passionate about music or audio