Sales Development Representative

Building relationships and making calls to promote our software solutions

Mission

We’re looking for an enthusiastic Sales Development Representative to join our leading healthcare software solutions group, qualifying marketing leads and performing cold calls to potential clients with the objective of booking highly qualified software demonstrations for our business development team.

About the role

The role will be a hybrid office / home based position focusing on generating leads within the UK pharmacy sector which will involve cold calling and outreach, appointment setting, relationship building, reporting and market research

Profile

Your skills and experience….

• You are an enthusiastic and positive sales professional who has experience in a sales development or lead generation role ideally within the software industry.
• You will ideally have worked in a sales / call centre or customer service environment, work well in a team and have a strong empathy for customers.
• You can confidently engage with stakeholders at all levels of the business, working to deliver against targets set by the business.
• You will have excellent communication and call handling skills along with the ability to influence through persuasion.
• You are motivated by delivering exceptional customer service.
• You are naturally confident and resilient.
• You are proficient in using CRM software and other sales tools.
• You are competent using a variety of IT including MS Office.

It would also be nice if you had the following but it’s not essential….

What we're offering

This is a great opportunity to work with our leading Healthcare Software Solutions Company and further develop your career within sale. It’s a friendly, supportive and focused working environment, where you’ll be part of a wider team who take great pride in what they do and the positive impacts our products and solutions have on a huge range of healthcare services across the country.

Along with a competitive salary and bonus scheme, there’s an excellent range of benefits - including a matched pension scheme, health cash plan and a well-being allowance, plus training, development and career progression opportunities.

Other Info

This is a permanent, full time role of 35 hours per week (as a guide working 3 days in the Buckshaw office and 2 days at home)

Skills

communication customer service business development Sales customer support software sales telesales cold calling healthcare sales solutions pharmacy optometry

Office Location and Useful info

We’re based in an open plan, purpose built office with parking on a business estate just on the outskirts of Leyland. We have the whole building, spread over two floors with a mostly open plan working environment. There’s lots of windows and natural light, it’s a calm, pleasant and friendly workplace, with a great canteen / break out space along with some outside space for those brighter dry days to eat outside or head for a walk. Leyland is famous as once being the home of one of the largest vehicle manufacturers in the UK; British Leyland – probably best known for their trucks and buses. There are several retail parks and leisure centres, the town centre also has a thriving market along with a mix of independent and well known chain stores. Leyland has great access to road links to Preston, Blackpool and Chorley, as well as the M6 and M58 if heading to Manchester, Liverpool or north towards Lancaster and The Lakes. Life at Cegedim Healthcare Solutions : We are passionate about technology and take great pride in producing innovative IT solutions that have a direct and positive impact on the UK health sector.We’re also a friendly, professional, highly skilled, hard-working and sociable team! We hold regular work and social events, online and in person, to keep our teams up to date with what’s going on across our group, as well as variouscharity, sports or other interests / hobby related activities for those who wish to take part. We introduced innovation days; a day per month for every employee to invest in developing ideas and supporting new innovations – whether it’s focusing on a particular project, gaining insight into a different area of the business or getting together with colleagues to brainstorm, sharing knowledge, expertise and looking at new ideas and innovations to benefit our customers, our teams and our business. If you're working in one of our offices there are various break out and / or kitchen areas - and outside / green space areas at or near to the offices - allowing you to have some time away from desk; go for a stroll, take some exercise, eat your lunch, catch up with colleagues, read, listen to music, play computer games, so you have somewhere to relax, refresh and reboot. We have a casual dress code.

Words from our recruitment team

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