Sales Development Associate - German Speaker

Company Description

Work smart, have fun and make an impact!

Our purpose is to guide all companies toward a sustainable world. EcoVadis is the leading provider of business sustainability ratings. Our solutions are backed by an international team of experts and powerful technology. We analyze data and build sustainability scorecards that give companies actionable insights into their environmental, social and ethical risks.

Why apply to EcoVadis?

Be a part of the global sustainability change in business. Grow your career. Work with extraordinary people. Feel valued for your contribution.

Learn more about our team and culture on EcoVadis careers page

Job Description

Frontline employees engage and support all companies to leverage EcoVadis solutions in order to foster continuous improvement of sustainable business practices in global supply chains. To achieve this aim our sales team is looking for a highly-motivated, tenacious, and self-starter to join our sales team. If you are interested in being part of something extraordinary and like working alongside people who are smart, organized, thorough, and take pride in initiating meaningful relationships with future customers, then this is the team for you.

Specific Responsibilities include:

• Generating new business opportunities to fuel revenue for EcoVadis
• Conducting high-level discovery and educational conversations with Senior Executives (Directors of Sustainability or Procurement) in Target Accounts
• Scheduling qualified meetings for Account Executives
• Evangelizing the importance of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility for the supply chain of Global 500 companies
• Leveraging your teammates (Marketing and Account Executives) to develop target lists, call strategies, and messaging in order to drive opportunities in regional areas
• Maintaining an activity (emails, calls, LinkedIn) volume with the intent to qualify leads and create pipeline growth
• Meeting or exceeding your quota
• Staying up-to-date on industry trends and competition
• Reporting results on a weekly basis, both qualitative and quantitative
• Quarterly business plan creation, reporting, and presentation to all key stakeholders
• Recording and documenting all calls and communications in Salesforce.com in order to identify trends for improvement
• Leveraging social networks for sales opportunities and leads

Qualifications

Our ideal candidate for this role will have an outgoing personality, a desire to learn new skills and to build a career in sales and sustainability. This person would have excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal, and active listening skills, as well as the ability to work autonomously.

Specific qualifications for the role include:

• Full professional proficiency in German and English is required as you'll be discussing complex sustainable procurement solutions in both languages
• At least 1 year of experience in Sales Development, Lead Generation, Sales and/or Marketing
• Experience working in Sustainability, CSR or B2B Procurement would be a plus
• Cold-calling experience
• Business proficiency in German and English is a must to be eligible for this role as per the territory.
• Knowledge of the DACH corporate business culture,
• Proficiency with Salesforce, LinkedIn, or other sales tools
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, team environment
• Highly motivated, driven, and self-starting
• Good time management with strong organizational skills
• Superior communication skills and the ability to build rapport
• Ability to work well in an international team environment in a fast-growing business.

Additional Information

Location: Barcelona - Hybrid
Start date: ASAP
Contract of Employment - Full time

In return for your expertise, we offer:

● Support with all the necessary office and IT equipment
● Flexible working hours
● Wellness allowance for mental and physical wellbeing
● Referral bonus policy
● Learning and development
● Sustainability events and community involvement
● Peer recognition program
● Employee-led resource groups
● Hybrid work organization (from the office or from home)
● Remote work from abroad policy
● Meals and Transportation Vouchers (Cobee card)
● Dental Benefits
● Life & Accident Insurance + Private Health Insurance
● Paid employee volunteer day
● Paid moving day (1/year)
● Time off: 1 Community Service Day + 1 Personal Day
● Summer Hours in July and August (36 hours per week)
● Hybrid Monthly Allowance for electricity and Internet

Our hiring team looks forward to reviewing your CV, in English, with a guaranteed response to every application. A new job with purpose awaits you!

Don’t fit all the criteria but still think you’d be a good candidate? Please apply anyway to give our hiring team the opportunity to assess your skills and to learn more about what you could bring to EcoVadis. We’re interested in hiring from a diverse and skilled talent pool, regardless of professional and educational background.

Can the hiring process be adjusted to suit my needs? Yes. We want everyone going through the hiring process with EcoVadis to feel confident that you are able to demonstrate your full potential. We welcome applications from disabled people, people with long-term health conditions, and neurodiverse candidates. If you need any adjustments, including the provision of interview questions, please let the hiring team know.

Our team’s strength comes from everyone’s uniqueness and is founded upon mutual respect. EcoVadis commits to equity, inclusion and reducing bias in our hiring processes. EcoVadis does not accept any form of discrimination based on color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, beliefs, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, disability, parental status, or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique. In your application, we encourage you to remove personal information such as: photographs, marital status, number of children, religion, gender, residential postal code, university graduation date, past medical or parental leave(s) taken, nationality (instead, please state if you are legally eligible to work in the job region/country), university name (instead, please state any degrees obtained and the study major).