The Opportunity
Adobe is looking for a high-energy, driven, and self-motivated individual to join Adobe's sales development team as a Business Development Representative (BDR) supporting our sales teams in the Digital Experience organization in Milan.
As a BDR, you are the first line of contact with prospects and must excel in establishing meaningful conversations with a variety of IT and C-level decision makers in commercial or public sector. You will prospect, educate, qualify, and develop target accounts to generate sales-ready meetings and opportunities. Through account-based sales development, you will identify and build sales pipeline that leads to revenue growth. This role is ideal for a highly motivated professional who is resilient and innovative in building and executing personalized business development prospecting campaigns.
What You’ll Do
- Generate sales pipeline through outbound prospecting activities via telephone, video, and email
- Meet and exceed monthly, quarterly, and annual pipeline generating targets to ensure territory revenue objectives and pipeline linearity
- Build awareness into the account base through regular email campaigns and drive attendance to live and online webinars
- Research accounts, identify key players, generate interest and develop accounts to uncover and develop opportunities for Adobe’s products
- Handle and overcome prospect objections with confidence
- Become a trusted resource and develop positive relationships with your sales ecosystem
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of Adobe's competitive positioning in the marketplace
What you need to succeed
- Proven track record of achieving measurable inside sales goals in a sales environment where accurate entry and management of lead data in a CRM system was required
- Prior experience cold calling and generating new leads
- Positive and energetic phone skills, excellent listening skills, strong writing and presentation skills
- Proficient with sales prospecting tactics and technologies
- Motivated by individual and team achievement
- Highly organized with ability to work in fast-paced environment
- Demonstrate adaptability and flexibility as part of an ever-growing sales organization
- 4-year college degree or equivalent experience required
- Native or fully bilingual proficiency in Italian and English is essential.
About Adobe
Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.
Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.
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