Business Development Representative Job at Canonical Nigeria
Canonical - We deliver open source to the world faster, more securely, and more cost-effectively than any other company. We develop Ubuntu, the world’s most popular enterprise Linux from cloud to edge, together with a passionate global community of 200,000 contributors. Ubuntu means 'humanity to others. We chose it because it embodies the generosity at the heart of open source, the new normal for platforms and innovation. Together with a community of 200,000, we publish an operating system that runs from the tiny connected devices up to the world's biggest mainframes, the platform that everybody uses on the public cloud, and the workstation experience of the world's most productive developers. Secure and reliable, elegant and intuitive, and open for innovation - Ubuntu is the future of open source, which is why it's the fastest-growing Linux in the world despite already being the most widely deployed.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Position: Business Development Representative
Job Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
The role entails
- Execute outbound sales & marketing campaigns
- Research information about prospective customers and market trends
- Generate high-quality leads for Senior Sellers to fuel a multi-million dollar pipeline
- Own and close SMB opportunities within your designated territory
- Collaborate across multiple teams and senior stakeholders to drive results
- Help define the processes and policies for the team
- Travel to events and conferences worldwide, presenting on booths and driving face-to-face marketing and sales opportunities
What we are looking for in you
- Demonstrated success in SDR or outbound sales, with a track record of exceeding annual quotas and consistently driving qualified pipeline growth
- Experience navigating prospective accounts from and into a senior executive level to identify new customer opportunities
- Experience in enterprise software or technology sales
- Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
- Passion for business and technology
- Commitment to continuous learning and improvement - curious, flexible, scientific
- Creative problem solving and cross team collaboration
- Professional written and spoken English with excellent presentation skills
- Verbal and written communication and negotiation skills
- Result driven with an over-achiever spirit
- Persistence & perseverance
- Growth mindset - people from our team develop into all departments within the sales organization (Channel, IoT, Enterprise Sales, etc)
- Ability to travel internationally twice a year for company events up to two weeks long.
What we offer colleagues
- We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme & Wellness Platform
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
- Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company
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