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Sales Development Representative

FLEXE

FLEXE

Sales & Business Development
Remote · United States
Posted on Thursday, April 18, 2024

Flexe solves the hardest omnichannel logistics problems for the world’s largest retailers and brands. Integrating technology, open logistics networks, and elastic economic models allows Flexe customers to move fast, at scale, and with precision. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, Flexe brings deep logistics expertise and enterprise-grade technology to deliver innovative eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution, same-day delivery, and network capacity programs to the Fortune 500. Flexe is transforming the $1.6T logistics industry.

Commercial Development Manager II

The Commercial Development Manager II is responsible for developing sales opportunities from an assigned set of target accounts. This job reports to the Head of Business Development. The CDM II role manages upper and mid funnel sales motions for Flexe’s new business pursuits, owning the initial introductions and ongoing relationship management with pre-revenue accounts and supporting Directors of Business Development to win the resulting deals. The CDM II also interfaces with marketing and sales enablement, ensuring the success of our demand generation efforts.

Job Responsibilities

[50%] Prospect new business target accounts for initial introductions and develop the demand generation strategies to support outreach

  • Ownership and responsibility to deliver half of the business development pipeline creation goal ($140M annually)
  • Strategizes, creates, and executes demand generation campaigns with support from marketing and sales enablement
  • Creates customer and industry specific messaging targeted for large enterprise prospects
  • Identify high-level decision makers from assigned Fortune 2000 companies and use sales prospecting tools including cold calling, cold emailing, and social media to introduce them to the Flexe value proposition
  • Identify and develop new business opportunities for Flexe Directors of Business Development

[20%] Build and maintain relationships with mid-funnel accounts leveraging Flexe Network Insights

  • Maintains key decision maker customer relationships in the mid-funnel
  • Use introductions and subsequent quarterly Network Insights updates to generate lasting, trusting, consultative business relationships and develop new sales opportunities
  • Develop consultative relationships with key players (Director Level +) at Fortune 2000 companies, understand their supply chain initiatives and needs, and provide regular, market-data and relevant insights from Flexe’s internal data sources

[20%] Partner with sales enablement and business development teams to develop industry, vertical, and client-specific messaging to create demand

  • Develop, manage and report on sequencing and messaging for upper funnel motions, in collaboration with BD leadership and marketing.
  • Deploy, measure, and evaluate success of prospecting sequences
  • Manage software and rollout of sequences

[10%] Drive awareness, engagement, and demand through execution of our trade shows, and marketing events

  • Create and drive a field marketing events calendar (i.e. in market events, dinners, outings, etc.), which would include driving attendance from both existing customers and new client prospects.
  • Drive traffic to marketing calendar events like webinars, logistics leadership forum, trade-shows, etc.
  • Attends, organizes, and delivers execution of Flexe-attended trade shows

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • 2+ Years of Experience in a B2B sales environment
  • Ability to work collaboratively with others from various departments

Preferred Qualifications

  • Knowledge of logistics industry and supply chain management topics strongly preferred
  • Data literacy and/or experience with basic data analysis tools, such as creating charts in Excel or building Salesforce reports
  • Understanding of Challenger Sales or Solution Selling techniques and concepts
The hourly rate for this role is $36.06 to $37.88 depending, in part, on candidate location. Recruiting will confirm the specific range for the candidate location in the initial phone screen. All employees receive company equity as part of their compensation package. This role is eligible for a commission. The target commission for the role is 40% based on achievement against specific metrics.

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Benefits:

Our benefits package at Flexe is thoughtfully designed to help our employees lead healthy lives inside and outside of work.

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401k with employer match
  • Flexible Time Off: FTO allows you to take time off with pay for vacation, sick days, or other personal reasons plus 10 standard holidays.
  • 2 days of volunteer PTO
  • 12 weeks of company-paid parental leave
  • Fully remote, in-office, or hybrid work environment
  • Monthly home internet reimbursement
  • Employee support groups, social groups, and mentorship program
  • Employee-driven programs for volunteering
  • Manager development program and resources
  • Access to free LinkedIn Learning courses

Flexe participates in E-Verify, an employment authorization program through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration.

Flexe is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, Flexe solves the hardest omnichannel logistics problems for the world’s largest retailers and brands. Integrating technology, open logistics networks, and elastic economic models allow Flexe customers to move fast, at scale, and with precision.