Business Development at Preqin is the engine that drives our growth and our Sales Development department is the beating heart of that engine. Our Sales Development Representatives are the first point of contact for the vast majority of our new business opportunities. This is a highly visible role that makes a direct and significant impact in our business. Additionally, the Sales Development Representative role provides boundless opportunities for both personal and professional growth. For those driven to exceed expectations, career paths at Preqin are endless.
What you’ll be doing:
- Leverage leading-edge sales and marketing tools such as Salesforce, Outreach, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and LeadIQ to reach out to outbound prospects and inbound leads
- Perform high volume prospecting through calling and emailing
- Schedule meetings between qualified leads and Sales Executives
- Act as consultants - our clients appreciate the value of our data for their needs, so we take the time to understand those needs and address them head on
- Work closely with account executives to understand prospect needs, and for continued knowledge development
- Strategically prospect into accounts, searching for key points of contact and best ways to engage
- Measured on quarterly demo KPIs while providing excellent experience for prospective customers
- Be a team player and be willing to share best practices
What you’ll bring to us:
- Have experience using Salesforce, Outreach, LeadIQ, or LinkedIn Sales Navigator or similar tools
- Have an interest in learning about the financial services industry and alternative data
- Ability to communicate professionally in both written and verbal methods
- Self-motivated, dedicated, and highly organized
- Driven by metrics and exceeding quarterly quota
- Team player with and entrepreneurial spirit and are willing to try new ideas to achieve greater levels of success
- Have internship experience or one (1) year of professional work experience, ideally in finance or sales
Why join us?
We centre our culture in our teams members growth, sparking their curiosity and fuelling their career adventures. We celebrate and recognise contribution, high performance and strong collaborative behaviours. We’re building and growing our learning programs, frameworks and tools to help people thrive and its an exciting time to join us. We support our internal communities and donate our time, knowledge and support to the communities that surround our offices globally.
Equal opportunities
Preqin is an equal opportunity employer, with diversity at the heart of our business. It is the policy of Preqin to ensure equal employment and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, socioeconomic status, political affiliation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.
About Preqin
You will be joining the world’s leading data and insights provider for the alternative assets market. We empower the global financial community with critical information and leading analytics solutions to help them make faster and smarter investment decisions, and to make them with confidence. A forward-thinking company, we lead our industry through innovation. We trust in the power of data, and we use it to increase transparency in alternatives. We believe that access to information leads to more investment in the ideas and infrastructure that build strong communities.
