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About This Role:
Forrester Research is looking for an Events Revenue Development Representative who can use their curiosity and perseverance to help fuel the sponsorship sales ambitions.
As part of the sponsorship sales team, the successful candidate will collaborate with event and research sales to discover opportunities within assigned territories and pursue both inbound and outbound leads. This individual will work within a tightly defined sales process to ensure a consistent, unified approach to selling the events portfolio and driving customer satisfaction and loyalty.
It’s not easy, but it’s exciting and challenging work. And with the extensive set of tools and technology, as well as a supportive team around, they will be by the individual’s side to make sure they are bold together.
Job Description:
- Achieve weekly meeting setting metrics.
- Follow up on leads generated by the marketing team in SFDC (including MQL, SQL, and IQL).
- Support sponsorship sales reps in selling new relationships to C-level leaders and their teams, including CMOs, VP of marketing and demand gen, field marketing, event marketing, AR, and sales leaders.
- Understand the objectives and services of a targeted set of accounts and their specific management titles and organizational structures.
- Perform name and organizational development at named accounts to identify buying groups.
- Engage with prospects via phone, email, and social media to outline Forrester’s unique value proposition in line with our defined cadences.
- Spark interest from qualified potential buyers to secure an introductory meeting with a Forrester events sales rep.
- Maintain and build relationships with prospects to understand their business issues and demonstrate how Forrester can bring value and solve their problems.
- Understand the changing business and technology issues that our clients and prospects face.
Job Requirements:
- A BS or BA degree or an equivalent experience
- The ability to prospect and account research
- The ability to actively listen and asses prospect opportunities
- The ability to use a variety of prospecting techniques and campaign types and effectively use all channels available for prospecting efforts
- Effective organization and time management skills
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Strong interpersonal skills.
We’re a network of knowledge and experience leading to richer, fuller careers. Here, we’re always learning. Whether you want to hone your strengths or discover new ones, Forrester is the place to go for it. It’s a place where everyone is given the tools, support, and runway they need to go far. We’ll be right there beside you, every step of the way.
Let’s be bold, together.
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