Sales Development Representative, Dutch Speaking

Abnormal
Netherlands
RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Geared toward ambitious, Dutch-speaking professionals comfortable with outbound prospecting and high-level client conversations.

Best fit for

  • Dutch-speaking candidates with a track record in cold outreach and lead qualification
    — “Contact potential clients through outbound cold calls and emails”
  • Candidates who can quickly adapt to new tools and processes in a remote setting
    — “be familiar with our tools, our processes and be able to ramp up quickly”
  • Individuals who thrive in team-oriented environments with distributed sales teams
    — “Demonstrated ability to collaborate with a distributed sales team”

Things to consider

  • This role demands high resilience and capacity to handle rejection in a quota-driven environment
    — “can handle rejection”
  • The position requires a high level of communication with C-level stakeholders
    — “high level conversations with C level stakeholders”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience with AI tools in prospecting and daily workflow
    — “We'd love to hear how you currently leverage AI tools in your prospecting and day-to-day workflow”
  • Emphasize your ability to identify client needs and align them with product value
    — “understanding customer pain points, requirements and correlating potential business to value”
  • Showcase your leadership and collaboration skills in a distributed team context
    — “demonstrate effective sales planning, and work in a positive and motivating way with internal counterparts”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Individual

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What success looks like

  • meeting sales targets
  • proactively seeking new business opportunities
  • qualifying leads
Typical background
salesbusiness development

Skills & requirements

Required

SalesCold CallingEmail OutreachSales IntuitionTeamworkCommunication

Preferred

SalesforceOutreach.ioOrumLushaActivelyaiGleanClaude

Stack & domain

SalesCold CallingEmail OutreachLead QualificationSales IntuitionSales PlanningSales TechniquesCold CallsSalesforceOrumLushaActivelyaiGleanClaudeLeadershipCommunicationTeamworkProblem-solvingAdaptabilityAttention To DetailCustomer Acquisition

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.

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