Business Development Representative

As Business Development Representatives (BDR), you are responsible for helping individuals, teams, and enterprises unleash creativity and productivity with industry-leading tools like Creative Cloud, Acrobat, and Adobe Express.  

You are the main driving force for identifying and providing high-value opportunities into the Sales pipeline. You are the first line of relationship development with prospective high-value accounts. 
 

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  Build awareness and interest in Adobe’s Digital Media solutions (Creative Cloud, Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Sign, Firefly Services, etc.).  

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  Deliver a “consultative” approach to selling; taking time to understand the prospect’s business, their goals, objectives, and challenges before recommending a solution. 

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  Consistently achieve quality pipeline, progression of them & other metrics such as Inbound lead follow-up & outbound account engagement metrics. 

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  Manage territory creation plan for your key account executives & their accounts. Researching key accounts, identifying decision-makers, generating interest, and developing accounts to stimulate opportunity. 

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  Prospect, educate, qualify, and develop Target Accounts and inbound leads to create sales-ready leads and opportunities. 

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  Quickly route prospects and current customers to appropriate colleagues to assist in solving problems and driving value. Nurtures & provides education on areas of interest for underinformed customers. 

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  Set up, attend & run qualification meetings with customers in partnership with relevant Account Executive & Solution Consultants. Updating CRM, Outreach, and other tools as necessary to ensure capture of key history & ensuring a smooth hand-off to the relevant Account Executive as necessary. 

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  Exceed monthly and quarterly targets for qualified pipeline opportunities. 

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  Providing closed-loop feedback to ensure continuous process optimisation. 

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  The business development rep must be technical and understand Adobe's Digital Marketing solutions. 

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours. 

• 2 years of experience as a BDR or in a similar role, specifically supporting the creative industry space. 

• Track record of successful business development in software or a tech sales environment. Knowledge of creatives within an agency environment would be an advantage. 

• Self-starter with high motivation, independence, resilience, and ability to collaborate with sales & marketing teams to deliver pipe creation goals. 

• Proven sales skills delivering inbound & outbound experiences and building strong relationships at multiple levels within an organisation. 

• Strong communication including listening, written, and verbal skills 

• Experience managing all areas of the BDR process, including account planning, pre-call preparation, opportunity qualification, and objection handling. 

• Ability to quickly learn & understand sophisticated business problems & translate customers' needs into solutions plays. 

• Consistently achieving inside sales goals in an automated sales environment where accurate entry and management of lead data in a CRM system was required. 

• Positive & upbeat personality who loves to spend time engaging customers through phone, social media & email. Curious to learn; always be asking questions! 

• Proficient with standard corporate productivity tools (email, voicemail, MS Office) and experience with sales tools such as Microsoft Dynamics, SFDC, Outreach, ZoomInfo, Lusha, etc. 

• Strong time management and ability to ruthlessly prioritise key tasks  

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