Your Role in Our Story:
About Green Project: Green Project is a SaaS-based carbon accounting and ESG management platform. Under increasing pressure from regulators, investors, customers and employees, businesses—especially small and medium businesses—are struggling to calculate and report on their GHG emissions.
Using Green Project’s platform, businesses of any size can begin tracking and monitoring their footprints. Ultimately, our platform provides the tools our customers need to begin tracking and reducing their corporate carbon footprint in compliance with the GHG Protocol.
Job Overview: Join Green Project as a Business Development Representative and be a part of a fast-growing climate tech company that's making a positive impact on the environment. As a crucial member of our team, you will represent the company’s products and services, using comprehensive knowledge as well as consumer research to explain how our solutions meet customer needs. As the first line of communication with a prospect, the ideal BDR has a strong understanding of the sales process and excels at researching leads, starting new relationships, and setting up sales closers for success.
In essence, your role involves:
- Utilize our internal CRM system, cold call, and email to generate new sales opportunities
- Generate leads and build relationships by nurturing warm prospects and finding potential new sales opportunities
- Identify the needs of prospects, and suggest appropriate products or services
- Build long-term, trusting relationships with prospects to qualify leads as sales opportunities
- Set up meetings or calls between (prospective) customers and sales executives
- Represent the company’s products and services, using comprehensive knowledge as well as consumer research to explain how our solutions meet customer needs
- Manage and maintain a pipeline of interested prospects and engage sales executives in next steps
- Identify best practices for refining the company’s lead-generation playbook
- Report to manager with weekly, monthly, and quarterly results
Your Expertise:
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates with the following qualifications and attributes:
- 1-3 years of experience in SaaS sales, with a track record of exceeding lead targets
- Fluency in Mandarin is preferred.
- Proven, creative problem-solving approach and strong analytical skills
- Experience as a sales development representative, with a track record of achieving sales quotas
- Proficiency with CRM and prospecting software, preferably HubSpot and Apollo
- Highly motivated and organized individual who exhibits strong integrity, work ethics and ability to perform under pressure
- Strong communication skills via phone and email
- Carbon or climate industry knowledge preferred
If you meet these criteria and are ready to contribute your expertise to a dynamic and challenging environment, we encourage you to apply.
What We Do
ACT is the world’s leading provider of market-based sustainability solutions. As enablers of the global energy transition, ACT helps organizations hit their climate targets, no matter how ambitious. Since 2009, ACT has become a trusted brand in high-impact climate projects, green electricity markets, renewable energies and energy efficiency, emission allowances and carbon offsets. With a growing portfolio of over 70 products in 40 plus countries, ACT’s consultants in Amsterdam, Shanghai, New York and Paris deliver bespoke solutions backed up by unparalleled market knowledge. ACT builds its relationships on trust and fosters an entrepreneurial environment. In shaping environmental markets, ACT enables its partners to pursue sustainable futures.
