Account Development Representative, Agency
England Remote /
CX – Agency /
Full-time, Permanent
/ Hybrid
Brandwatch is the world’s premier social suite, empowering over 7,500 of the world’s most admired companies to understand and engage with customers at the speed of social.
Combining pioneering, AI-enriched digital consumer intelligence with industry-leading social media management tools, Brandwatch offers a complementary suite of specialized, best-in-class products and services that support intelligently connected workflows. With Brandwatch, brands and agencies can adapt and thrive in today’s fast moving digital world by making smarter decisions and executing data-driven social strategies at every customer touchpoint.
Operating and serving clients the world over, Brandwatch has 15 offices across the globe and more than 1,000 employees worldwide. Brandwatch is a Cision Company.
At the core of our business is the global customer success team. 100+ people across 8 offices, all working towards one mission -- ‘Make Every Customer Successful’. Our mantra is what drives us to ensure that all of Brandwatch’s customers get the very best out of our technology. In the ever changing world of social data, we are constantly called upon to help our customers leverage insights to inform business decisions. We build an understanding of our customer’s businesses, we help them overcome challenges and we seek opportunities to highlight the impact of Brandwatch on the way they do business.
As an ADR, you will have an overall responsibility for growing our Agency business across a diverse set of Agencies within our Network Agency Groups. Your role is to find, qualify and build initial relationships within your assigned accounts that enable you to drive product interest through identifying a client's business objectives and challenges and sell-in intelligent commercial solutions, resulting in new customer meetings, whilst maintaining Brandwatch’s positive reputation. Key to this role is the ability to articulate value, inspire through targeted use cases and sell the future of the Brandwatch suite of products
The ideal candidate will have previous experience working with, selling to and managing agency expectations.
What you'll do:
- Research new markets defined by the agency leadership team, build a pipeline of potential leads, and nurture relationships using Salesloft, Salesforce, LinkedIn, and other platforms
- Become an expert on our brand, business, and SaaS product. Identify points of contact within target companies and reach out to prospective clients via outbound calls, emails and social media
- Make a predefined number of outbound calls to prospects daily with the goal of scheduling platform demos
- Qualify new leads and follow up on warm leads, own your pipeline
- Nurture relationships with potential customers
- Book demos with qualified leads for your Account Management team
- Meet and exceed quarterly revenue and lead targets
- Stay current on industry news and understand the social media landscape
- No limits, if you find a prospective client within your defined portfolio, reach out to them!
- EMEA focussed - so a huge opportunity
What you have:
- Positivity and determination
- Ability to turn a "no" into a "yes" through consultative questioning and coping with rejection
- Excellent written and spoken English skills, any other languages are a plus
- Team player attitude, eager to be part of an ambitious team
- Ability to thrive in a quota driven environment with short sales cycles
- Experience in a new business generation/real estate/recruitment role is an advantage
- Cold calling experience an advantage
- Exceptional ability to organise work and tasks
- Ability to speak a language is a plus!
Icing on the cake:
- Experience working with (or for) a social media monitoring provider
- Experience working with (or for) an agency
- Background in a digital marketing agency or SaaS vendor
- Demonstrable knowledge of marketing principles and best practices
- Familiarity with Boolean logic and data analytics
- Experience working with CRM and/or ticketing systems, such as Salesforce, Salesloft, Jira
What we offer:
- An open, informal, diverse and multinational working environment;
- Personal and professional development opportunities;
- Buddy setup to help you onboard and beyond;
- 25 days of PTO per year to encourage a healthy work-life balance + paid sick days;
- Additional pension and health insurance, including dental;
- Employee discounts platform and sports contribution;
- Full Calm subscription and 24/7 Employee Assistance program;
- Hybrid working model. Our office in London is located in East London, just 10 min away from Liverpool street and features a modern working environment
Our Values:
We Act with Care - We invest in our teams, treat each other with respect, and understand that people are the center of our work. We care about our purpose and invest heavily in services to better support our customers.
We Take Pride - We take pride in the quality of our products and services, our company, and each other.
We Spark Change - We are agents of change and we are pioneers in our industry. We reward creativity and value the lessons that come not only from success, but failure as well.
If you’ve found our job opportunity interesting but you don’t meet all of the requirements, it’s still worth applying. We’d love to hear from you!
Brandwatch is a globally distributed organization. However, we can’t provide any legal sponsorship to attain a work visa or permit in your country of residence, nor in any of the countries where we operate. We strongly advise you to seek legal counsel to ensure your residential status is fully legal before you apply. Any offer of employment we make you will be conditional upon you having the right to work in your hiring location and Brandwatch will verify this as part of the onboarding process.
To all recruitment agencies: Brandwatch does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or Brandwatch employees. Brandwatch is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
