Inside Sales Associate (Paris)
- Paris, France
- Competitive salary
- 17 applications
- Job type: Permanent, full-time
- Date:
- Reference: 21139019
• Working directly by phone with Red Hat's Partners and Channel Managers (CM) in driving comprehensive Enterprise offerings into assigned Region by identifying, qualifying, and closing opportunities
• Working closely with Partners on managing and closing leads and opportunities, handing over opportunities for closing / fulfilment at the earliest stage
• Feedback to Channel Management on partner workload, strengths, and development needs
• Ensuring greater Regional coverage by identifying contact names, and positions within each customer
• Working with and coordinating all internal resources (sales support, presales, customer service, order entry, etc) to ensure the most efficient and low cost route to opportunity closure for Regional team
• Engaging the use of the sales support team for quotations and co-terminations to allow Regional team to sell without administrative barriers
• Following up all sales leads in the shortest possible time by phone and email
• Working with TAM and Sales Support to create, distribute and follow up on Sales campaigns
• Using full qualification techniques to understand whether an opportunity has greater potential and determining the most cost efficient route to closure
• Up-selling and cross-selling Red Hat's full range of products in all calls and opportunities
• Fully utilising Red Hat's Salesforcedotcom and Supportable X systems to update opportunity status through the pipeline from lead to order (forecast)
• Contacting Regional Accounts to introduce and identify themselves as the first point of contact within Red Hat
• Continuously training on all of Red Hat's offerings to most effectively use the company's technical resources in driving opportunities
• Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of the industry as well as the competitive position of the company
Job Requirements• A track record of telesales and / or suitable commercial experience
• An understanding of software related sales cycle
• Ability to work as part of a team whilst demonstrating flexibility, autonomy and a desire to make things happen
• A desire to be part of a company that is redefining the entire software industry