Norwegian-speaking Marketing Development Representative
Planday, Norway
Job Description
Planday is continuing to grow fast. Early this year, we became part of the Xero family, joining forces with one of the biggest cloud-based accounting software platforms globally to further deliver on our purpose to make life easier for employers and employees all over the world. Aligned with Xero’s passion for businesses, people, and growth, we’re looking forward to working together to build a strong launchpad for businesses and employees to manage their time and reach their joint potential in life and at work.
As we are continuously growing our customer base across Europe, we are currently looking for new?Norwegian-speaking?colleague to join our Oslo based Sales Team as Marketing Development Representative (MDR).
As our new Marketing Development Representative (MDR), you will be part of a team of currently seven colleagues across Scandinavia and will be reporting to our MDR Team Lead. You will be responsible for contacting potential customers, who reach out to us over our marketing channels, qualify these leads and book in meetings with our Account Executive team.
Your main tasks will include:
- Reaching 80 activities?(phone calls and e-mails) per day - including outbound phone calls to supplying your customer base
- Delivering a minimum of 30 held customer meetings per month for our Account Executive team
- Responding to incoming chat messages and phone calls of potential customers
- Reviewing and qualifying incoming marketing leads
- Holding qualification meetings with interested customers
Requirements
The MDR team is responsible for delivering qualified first demo appointments through a process of engagement, fact-finding and qualifying business pains and objectives that our Account Executive Team can sell to.
To be successful in this role, you should have?excellent communication skills and enjoy speaking?to new potential customers. Additionally, you should:
- Be professionally?fluent in Norwegian (and ideally understand Swedish) as you will contact potential customers in both markets
- Have a minimum of 6 months experience in a sales role, preferably in a SaaS company
- Ideally have a?good understanding of standard sales tools, preferably Salesforce and Salesloft
- Be able to?quickly understand customer needs?and how the company value proposition is situated within that context
- Enjoy working with a?high activity level?and thrive in a fast-paced sales environment
Benefits
As part of our MDR team, you will work within a team of dynamic and very engaged colleagues. As our product is designed to make life easier for shift workers all over the world, you will be in touch with different stakeholders in companies ranging from hospitality to healthcare and everything in-between - so no day will be exactly like the last!
You will be located in our beautiful Oslo office. It is a great place to spend time together. Our offices are not just a workplace. We strive to create an open, warm and welcoming atmosphere, where we empower, uplift and connect. We want to be a place where we deeply care about each other and thrive together.
Additionally, in this position you will play a key role in helping Planday grow its business and achieve our goals.
If you are looking to join a high-energy SaaS Scale-up with a dynamic team of motivated colleagues, this is just the role for you.
We can't wait to hear from you!