Job Description
About the Role:
- We are looking to engage an experienced Outbound Sales Specialist to join our team, the selected applicant will be responsible for all activities revolving around following up and converting aspiring students, corporate clients, and partners into leads. This role is majorly in-house and as such you must be experienced in online marketing lead generation
What does an Outbound Sales Specialist do?
Outbound Sales Specialists are responsible for selling a company's products by identifying leads, educating prospects on products through calls, training, and presentations, and providing existing customers with exceptional support.
As a role that focuses on converting prospects to buying clients, we expect to see the following duties and responsibilities as highlighted below:
Your duties will include but are not limited to the following:
- Performing online sales activities to achieve company sales objectives.
- Preparing and delivering engaging and confident presentations (both at one-to-one level and at a much larger scale) about our company and its services.
- Making inbound and outbound calls to sell our services; respond to customer queries promptly and professionally.
- Developing and implementing a systematic and efficient strategy to identify, acquire and retain prospective clients both individual and corporate.
- Liaising for partnership with business groups, universities, associations, chambers of commerce, associations etc
- Ensuring that all students receive the best possible learning experience and take responsibility for addressing the learning needs of all students.
- Developing and managing training schedules.
- Communicating with customers via phone, e-mails, chats and other platforms
- Developing sales strategies and determining sales forecasts and projections.
- Staying abreast with online marketing trends and competitors.
Requirements:
- Bachelors in Marketing, Business Administration and Related Courses
- 2-5 hands-on experience in online sales and tele-marketing; experience in a digital marketing workspace is an added advantage
- Persuasion skills and ability to convert leads via online communication
- Worked on a target-based role and meet up with deadlines
- Passionate and up to date with knowledge of cutting edge marketing techniques.
- Strong and confident communicator.