Inside Sales Executive

The Sales organization is looking for an Inside Sales Executive to join our team. This position provides support to our outside sales team members by performing pre-sales activities including lead qualification, prospecting and helping manage targeted marketing campaigns. This entails working directly with prospects to understand their businesses, challenges and technical requirements and set appointments for our outside Enterprise Account Executives.

The individual will be a highly motivated, self-starter able to identify and develop new business prospects from multiple sources, including events, prospect lists, discovery, and individual research. A dynamic personality with a drive to reach decision-makers is essential.
- Follow up on leads and conduct research to identify potential prospects.
- Understanding customer needs and requirements, and conduct a need analysis, and determining prospects' pain points.
- Routing qualified opportunities to the appropriate sales executives for further development and closure
- Qualify incoming marketing inquiries
- Schedule appointments for phone, web or onsite meeting
- Support the Enterprise Sales Executive team members to maximize prospect interaction that will ultimately lead to new closed business
- Identify key buying influencers within these prospects to determine budget and timeline.
- Build and cultivate prospect relationships by initiating communications and conducting follow-up communications to move opportunities through the sales funnel.
- Work with the Inside Sales Manager to develop and grow the sales pipeline to consistently meet monthly/quarterly revenue goals.
- Manage data for new and prospective clients in CRM, ensuring all communications are logged, information is accurate, and documents are attached.
- Prepare and analyze sales pipeline reports and dashboards.
- Participate in weekly sales team meetings
- Maintain consistent communication with the Enterprise Sales Executives

Skills/Requirements
- Bachelors/ Masters Degree in Business, Communications, or related field
- Experience in the lead generation/Market research field preferred
- Experience in telemarketing and/or inside sales
- Strong phone presence and experience dialing dozens of calls per day
- Demonstrated ability to meet and/or exceed determined sales and activity quotas.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong listening and presentation skills
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office programs
- UK Market experience
- Minimum 1+ years of sales experience preferably in a results-oriented sales environment.
- Demonstrated experience selling to VP and C-level executives
- Demonstrated experience in event subscription/registration selling
- Experience leveraging LinkedIn and other prospecting tools to make contact prospects
- Ability to solve problems and think critically
- Experience using CRM systems and web-based conferencing systems preferred Knowledge/Experience

About Company

Merit is a tight-knit team of tech lovers and problem solvers who thrive on getting a job done well.

We excel at data; collecting, refining and interpreting information and managing data into diverse database systems.We underpin some of the world’s most trusted B2B brands with our proprietary data management systems and data products.

We differ from most off-shore technology companies by leveraging the benefits of diversity; with a mix of UK and Indian management personnel in our development centres, we guarantee clearer communication and easier delivery.

We have our Technological Hubs in Chennai, Mumbai, and London

**Salary**: ₹500,000.00 - ₹800,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Health insurance
- Provident Fund

Day range:

- Monday to Friday

Shift:

- UK shift

Supplemental pay types:

- Performance bonus

Application Question(s):

- How many years of experience do you have in B2B International sales?