Business Development Representative - DC

Granicus is a company transforming the Govtech industry by connecting governments with their constituents. The Business Development Representative will be responsible for generating new sales opportunities and supporting sales teams by prospecting and qualifying potential customers.

Responsibilities:

• Develop new business via phone and email to educate and introduce the prospect to the Granicus platform
• Conduct initial qualification and discover prospect's current environment, pain points, and potential projects
• Identify appropriate key buying influencers within the target market and their established budget and timeline
• Follow up with inbound marketing leads and outbound prospects through a strategic outreach plan to generate additional interest in Granicus and qualify for a potential opportunity
• Build and cultivate prospect relationships by initiating communications and conducting follow-up communications in order to move opportunities through the sales funnel
• Collaborate with account executives to create strategic territory plans and develop and grow the sales pipeline to consistently meet quarterly revenue goals
• Use Salesforce CRM to properly track all sales activities and manage contact/lead data for accuracy
• Analyze sales pipeline reports and dashboards
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• You have work and/ or internships experience in sales or marketing, or a degree in business, communications, or another related field
• You have 1+ year of relevant work experience
• You can meet and/or exceed set sales and activity metrics
• You can build strong client relationships
• You have excellent written and oral communication skills
• You have effective problem solving, time management, and organizational skills
• You are proficient in MS Office products
• Experience with Salesforce or another CRM Software preferred