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Business Development Representative

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Sydney, New South Wales
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The Business Development Representative will generate qualified opportunities for the sales team through inbound and outbound activities, managing leads, and coordinating with regional teams to build a strong sales pipeline.
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Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people-centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That’s why we’re a leader in next-generation cybersecurity.

Protection Starts with People.
 

The Role  

We are currently seeking a highly motivated and energetic individual to join our expanding Australia and New Zealand team to generate qualified opportunities for our Sales Teams. As part of the Marketing Business Development team, you will be working closely with the regional sales and marketing teams to generate sales accepted leads via multiple channels with a mix of inbound (lead follow-up) and outbound (prospecting) activities. 

As a Business Development Representative, you will be an important member of the organization, playing a critical role to uncover and develop new opportunities to build a strong pipeline of sales opportunities. In doing so, you’ll have a direct impact in sourcing new business for the company. 

 

Your day-to-day  

  • Qualify and develop inbound and outbound sales accepted leads and respond to product inquiries, and nurture those prospects as assigned  

  • Utilize your research and planning skills and have meaningful conversations to engage and acquire new leads 

  • Follow-up on all leads generated by marketing and convert initial interest into sales accepted leads   

  • Manage email campaigns to generate new sales prospects  

  • Manage cold-calling telephone-based campaigns to generate new sales prospects  

  • Complete accurate tracking of communication with current and potential customers in Salesforce.com  

  • Schedule demonstrations between Sales team members and potential customer  

 

What You Bring To The Team 

  • Highly motivated individual with a competitive personality and good attention to detail  

  • Target-orientated, ambitious, creative, customer focused 

  • 1-2 years’ experience in sales related environment  

  • Previous experience with solutions that can be deployed in private or public clouds a plus  

  • Experience working with Salesforce.com or other CRM is a bonus  

  • Excellent phone and interpersonal communication skills (verbal and written) as well as organizational skills  

  • Previous experience working and succeeding in a goal-driven, fast-paced environment preferred  

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award-winning lineup of cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success.  We’re a customer-focused and a driven-to-win organization with leading-edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly ‘culture-add’, and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply. 

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint! #LifeAtPFPT

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If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

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