Sales Development Representative

Motive
Toronto, Canada
HybridCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for candidates with cold calling experience and a natural sales instinct who thrive in a hybrid work arrangement and are open to enterprise-level industry challenges.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with prior cold calling experience and a strong drive to persevere through rejection
    — “Ability to handle rejection and persevere”
  • Individuals who can communicate effectively and represent Motive's mission to prospective clients
    — “Strong communication skills”
  • Professionals comfortable with a hybrid work model and able to travel to global offices for interviews or training
    — “some interviews or new-hire training sessions may be held in person at one of our global offices”

Things to consider

  • Fluency in Quebec French is a significant advantage, though not mandatory
    — “Quebec French fluency highly preferred”
  • Candidates must be authorized to access Motive products under U.S. Export Administration Regulations
    — “applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations”

How to stand out

  • Emphasize your ability to build rapport and set qualified meetings for Account Executives
    — “Set up meetings/calls between prospective clients and Account Executives”
  • Highlight your experience in identifying client needs and suggesting appropriate solutions
    — “Identify prospects needs/challenges and suggest appropriate products/services”
  • Showcase your quick learning ability and adaptability to enterprise-level sales processes
    — “quick learners, and have a natural sales instinct”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • setting up qualified meetings for account executives
  • exceeding sales targets
Typical background
sales experiencecommunication skillsability to handle rejection

Skills & requirements

Required

SalesCold CallingEmail OutreachAccount QualificationSalesforce

Preferred

French FluencyCold Calling Experience

Stack & domain

Cold CallingSalesforceCommunicationTeamworkSalesCustomer Service

About the role

Original posting from Motive via Greenhouse

Who we are:

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

About the Role:

How do you build a world class sales organization? By creating a best in class Sales Development Organization. We are actively looking to bring on the best and the brightest professionals to join our SDR team as a Sales Development Rep for our Enterprise segment and help us transform one of the most important industries on the planet.

As a "SDR" you’ll be navigating organizations to set qualified meetings for our Account Executives. We need strong communicators, who are quick learners, and have a natural sales instinct to be the first impression on the front lines at Motive. We strive towards providing a best in class sales experience for our prospective customers, and you would be the voice of Motive on how we can help connect the world's trucks, and automate the world's freight.

What You'll Do:

Contact prospective clients through cold calls and emails

Qualify accounts/prospects based on set criteria

Identify prospects needs/challenges and suggest appropriate products/services

Set up meetings/calls between prospective clients and Account Executives

Reschedule/follow up with prospects if meetings do not occur

What We're Looking For:

Bachelors Degree Required

Quebec French fluency highly preferred

Strong work ethic and drive

Ability to handle rejection and persevere

Strong communication skills

Salesforce experience is a plus

Previous cold calling experience is a plus

Coach-ability and a team focused mindset

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. 

Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here.

UK Candidate Privacy Notice here.

The applicant must be authorized to receive and access those commodities and technologies controlled under U.S. Export Administration Regulations. It is Motive's policy to require that employees be authorized to receive access to Motive products and technology. 

Regarding US-based roles, depending on your role and primary work location, Motive Technologies, Inc. (“Employer”) discloses candidates may be required to execute a non-compete covenant with the Employer. This requirement does not apply to lawyers, interns, or employees working in CA, MN, MT, ND, OK, or where otherwise prohibited by law.

Non-compete covenant terms in all other jurisdictions will be subject to the applicable statutory requirements, including but not limited to, procedures, industry related prohibitions, or salary and compensation thresholds.

All job postings are for existing vacancies. Please note; some interviews or new-hire training sessions may be held in person at one of our global offices.

Source: Motive careers (Greenhouse)

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