Business Development Representative (Public Sector IT sales experience required)

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Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg, Gauteng
Entry level
Information Technology • Security • Software • Consulting
The Role
The Business Development Representative will focus on generating and nurturing leads for SaaS email services, collaborating with teams, and achieving sales targets.
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Business Development Representative

We are looking for energetic Business Development Representatives (BDRs / SDRs) to generate and nurture sales leads for our SaaS-based email and information services.

Working in our incredible Johannesburg office, and working closely with Marketing, Channel and Sales teams, you will develop new business leads by a mix of warm and cold calling.

We're looking to speak with motivated high-performers, regardless of experience, who are ambitious and looking to use their language skills in a hyper growth environment, to help support our geo-expansion plans!

What You’ll Do:

  • Prospect utilizing our advanced tools to generate leads
  • Working collaboratively with your Sales Representative to create a pipeline
  • Develop knowledge about Cybersecurity and our value proposition
  • Hit or exceed monthly meeting targets

What You’ll Bring:

  • Coachability and openness to feedback
  • A keen interest in software sales in a customer facing role
  • Motivation to succeed and grow your career at Mimecast
  • Autonomous, curious, eager to learn, and proactive approach
  • A keen interest in developing your knowledge and skills set
  • Problem solving skills to find suitable solutions
  • Strong communications skills with ability to gather details about prospects
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
  • Experience in business applications such as MSOffice, Google Workspace, etc.

What We Bring:

  • A People-First culture
  • Career Growth opportunities
  • Uncapped commission and compelling incentive plans
  • Global travel opportunities
  • Office exchange opportunities
  • Hybrid working
  • Online and in-person learning, supported by an enablement specialist, mentor, recognition programs, great team atmosphere, and world-class progression plan within an award winning cybersecurity organization.
  • Health, wealth and well-being benefits including private healthcare.

DEI Statement

Cybersecurity is a community effort. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone – unless they’re a cybercriminal, of course.

We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and we’d encourage you to join us whatever your background. We particularly welcome applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups.

We consider everyone equally: your race, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, marital status, nationality, or any other protected characteristic won’t affect your application.

Due to certain obligations to our customers, an offer of employment will be subject to your successful completion of applicable background checks, conducted in accordance with local law.

Top Skills

Google Workspace
MS Office
SaaS
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The Company
HQ: London
1,916 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

Relentless protection. Resilient world.

Mimecast (NASDAQ: MIME) was born in 2003 with a focus on delivering relentless protection. Each day, we take on cyber disruption for our tens of thousands of customers around the globe; always putting them first, and never giving up on tackling their biggest security challenges together. We are the company that built an intentional and scalable design ideology that solves the number one cyberattack vector – email. We continuously invest to thoughtfully integrate brand protection, security awareness training, web security, compliance and other essential capabilities. Mimecast is here to help protect large and small organizations from malicious activity, human error and technology failure; and to lead the movement toward building a more resilient world. Learn more about us at www.mimecast.com.

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