Sales Development Representative

Description

Want to join the sales team in Norway's fastest-growing industrial software company?

About Cognite

At Cognite we develop software to empower the digital industrial revolution on a global scale by thrilling one user at a time. We want to let data power the industries, so humans are free to create, innovate, improve and shape the world we live in. And we believe obsessing about the end-user value and creating delightful user experiences is the best way to achieve this.

Our bright, capable team includes some of the best software programmers, data scientists, designers, game developers, 3D developers, and commercial professionals in the business. Our international team is setting the standard for industrial software by accelerating innovation in data contextualization, advanced visualizations, and machine learning.

Cognite’s European sales team is looking for tenacious sales development representatives to join our growing sales team in Oslo. Help us solve real-world problems while streamlining the industry of manufacturing or oil & gas in Europe. This role is one of the first touchpoints for prospects and key resellers. It has the opportunity to set the tone for the sales cycle following.

What you’ll need to do:

• Penetrate target accounts with a multi-channel approach and schedule demonstrations and meetings for your colleagues on the sales team
• Follow-up on inbound marketing leads and identify qualified opportunities providing appropriate levels of information at the right time for interested prospects
• Work closely with account executives to develop account intelligence, relationship maps, and use case opportunities through direct account engagement and insight tools
• Effectively partner and work across the Cognite’s teams - including Marketing
• Hold intelligent and engaging conversations over the phone, email, and social media.
• Act as the subject matter expert on Cognite’s product offerings
• Shadow your dedicated Account Executive in meetings and other activities to help you acquire the skills you’ll need for your next role on Cognite’s sales team.

What you’ll need:

• Experience with sales development within the technology space
• Demonstrated success in prospecting through effective use of sales tools: Salesforce, LinkedIn, Google Apps, Microsoft Office, etc.
• Motivated to design the best practices for this role to be used internationally within Cognite.
• Exceptional communication skills, both oral and written, coupled with excellent listening skills and a positive and energetic phone presence
• The capability of understanding customer pain points, requirements and correlating potential business value that can be provided by Cognite
• Aptitude to manage numerous requests and time demands concurrently while achieving production goals from an assigned territory or set of accounts
• BA/BS degree or relevant experience
• Language: English (required), Scandinavian (bonus) or German (bonus)

What you’ll get:

• Competitive base salary + bonus, other benefits (including pension plans, insurance, parental benefits and more)
• IT equipment and tools to allow you to be productive
• Coverage of mobile telephone subscription and broadband connection
• Extended private health services and free yearly health check
• Free snacks and drinks throughout the day, to keep you running
• Subsidized lunch at the canteen, with various food options
• Free staffed gym
• Social activities (book club, team sports activities - football, boxing, regular Cognite social events)
• Free online Norwegian courses for levels A1 and A2

Equal opportunities

Cognite is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Embracing and driving diversity and inclusion means that all qualified applicants will receive the same level of consideration for employment, training, compensation, and promotion. We are following up on equal assessment in the recruitment process, and that is why we ask for gender when you apply. Answering the question is kindly requested, however, it is not mandatory and it will not affect in any way your application assessment.

What you need to know:

Application deadline: February 9th

Location: Fornebu