Sales Development Representative, Dutch Speaking

Abnormal
United Kingdom
RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Strong fit for Dutch-speaking sales professionals who thrive in fast-paced environments and can collaborate effectively with distributed teams.

Best fit for

  • Dutch-speaking candidates with a track record in cold calling and lead qualification
    — “Contact potential clients through outbound cold calls and emails”
  • Individuals who can quickly ramp up and demonstrate product expertise
    — “be able to ramp up quickly”
  • Candidates who have experience working with distributed sales teams and are team-oriented
    — “Demonstrated ability to collaborate with a distributed sales team”

Things to consider

  • Fluency in Dutch is mandatory, not just a plus, which may limit the candidate pool
    — “Fluency in Dutch is a must”
  • Candidates must be ready to engage in high-level conversations with C-level stakeholders
    — “comfortable with making phone calls and professional to have high level conversations with C level stakeholders”

How to stand out

  • Showcase experience with AI tools in your outreach and workflow during interviews
    — “We'd love to hear how you currently leverage AI tools in your prospecting and day-to-day workflow”
  • Highlight your ability to adapt quickly to new tools and processes in your resume
    — “be familiar with our tools, our processes and be able to ramp up quickly”
  • Emphasize your success in meeting or exceeding sales targets in past roles
    — “Meet or exceed monthly, quarterly and yearly targets”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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

What success looks like

  • contact potential clients
  • identify client needs
  • suggest appropriate products/services
  • seek new business opportunities
  • qualify leads
Typical background
cold callingemail outreachidentifying client needs

Skills & requirements

Required

Cold CallingEmail OutreachIdentifying Client NeedsSuggesting Appropriate Products/servicesProactively Seeking New Business OpportunitiesQualifying LeadsCollaborating With A Distributed Sales TeamUnderstanding Customer Pain PointsCommunicating ProfessionallyManaging Multiple RequestsSales TechniquesDriving, Grit, Team-oriented

Preferred

Outreach.ioSalesforceOrumLushaActivelyaiGleanClaude

Stack & domain

Cold CallingEmail OutreachSales TechniquesAI ToolsSalesforceOrumLushaActivelyaiGleanClaudeCommunicationTeamworkLeadershipProblem-solvingEmpathyConfidenceAdaptabilityOrganizationSales DevelopmentBusiness DevelopmentSalesAICustomer Engagement

About the role

Original posting from Abnormal

About the Role

We are hiring the “best of the best” sales professionals who are passionate about their craft and want to continue to excel within our elite sales organization. Our Business Development Representatives will be the “tip of the spear” in the sales process within an assigned territory of business for prospective accounts. The ideal SDR candidate should have the perfect mix of experience, sales intuition, career ambition, team oriented mindset, quota driven mentality, empathetic / humble, positive, confident and can handle rejection.

The candidate will need to have good organization and written / verbal communication skills, Needs to be comfortable with making phone calls and professional to have high level conversations with C level stakeholders in medium to large organizations.

The candidate needs to be able to adapt to a fast paced environment, be familiar with our tools, our processes and be able to ramp up quickly.

What you will do 

Contact potential clients through outbound cold calls and emails

Identify client needs and suggest appropriate products/services

Proactively seek new business opportunities in the market

Qualify leads from marketing campaigns as sales opportunities

Exercise leadership, demonstrate effective sales planning, and work in a positive and motivating way with internal counterparts and external customers.

Meet or exceed monthly, quarterly and yearly  targets

Effectively partner and work across sales teams 

Act as the subject matter expert on Abnormal AI product offering.

Must Haves 

6 months - 1 plus years proven work experience as a Business Development Rep

Fluency in Dutch is a must 

Representative, Sales Account Executive or similar role (less experience is ok for the right candidate)

Demonstrated ability to collaborate with a distributed sales team

Capability of understanding customer pain points, requirements and correlating potential business to value 

Strong, professional communication skills -- written, verbal, presentation

Aptitude to manage numerous requests and time demands concurrently, while achieving production goals from assigned territory or set of accounts

Hands-on experience with multiple sales techniques (including cold calls)

We actively encourage our SDRs to embrace and utilise AI to its fullest potential, whether to create sharper personalisation or stronger relevance in prospect outreach. We'd love to hear how you currently leverage AI tools in your prospecting and day-to-day workflow

Drive, Grit, Team Oriented: strong desire to compete and win

BA/BS degree or relevant experience

Nice to Have 

Outreach

Salesforce

Orum

Lusha

ActivelyAI

Glean

Claude

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A note on AI in our process: 

Abnormal AI uses AI-assisted tools to help our recruiting team prepare for candidate interviews. These tools analyze resume content and role requirements to suggest interview questions and areas for the interviewer to explore.They do not make hiring decisions or screen candidates automatically. Every decision about a candidacy is made by a person. Further, if your application is successful and Abnormal AI makes a conditional offer of employment, we will carry out pre-employment checks which must be successfully completed to progress to a final offer. All processes and pre-employment checks are in line with prevailing legislation and Abnormal AI's policies relevant to our security and privacy standards.

Abnormal AI is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. For our EEO policy statement please click here. If you would like more information on your EEO rights under the law, please click here.

Source: Abnormal careers

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