Sales Development Representative – Healthcare

at SolarWinds (View all jobs)

Austin, Texas

Req ID: 201605

At SolarWinds, we’re a people-first company. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of the people we serve—including our employees, customers, shareholders, Partners, and communities. Join us in our mission to help customers accelerate business transformation with simple, powerful, and secure solutions.

The ideal candidate thrives in an innovative, fast-paced environment and is collaborative, accountable, ready, and empathetic. We’re looking for individuals who believe they can accomplish more as a team and create lasting growth for themselves and others. We hire based on attitude, competency, and commitment. Solarians are ready to advance our world-class solutions in a fast-paced environment and accept the challenge to lead with purpose. If you’re looking to build your career with an exceptional team, you’ve come to the right place. Join SolarWinds and grow with us!

Your Impact

  • Cultivate the pipeline by calling on inbound state and local and education (SLED) marketing leads from webinars, tradeshows, whitepapers, the website, and other marketing activities as assigned
  • Drive registrations for federal events such as Tech Days, networking receptions, and webinars through proactive outreach
  • Appropriately qualify all assigned inbound SLED leads and establish an action plan for the next steps
  • Develop and accomplish a lead qualification/generation plan that meets or exceeds monthly and quarterly lead pass quota targets
  • Research and prospect to make outbound cold calls
  • Responsible for assisting with answering and evaluating prospective customer calls from SolarWinds government inbound phone lines
  • “Focus on the customer” by understanding their industry, business, and challenges
  •  Understand and articulate the breadth of SolarWinds’ product portfolio
  • Participate in entry-level sales program training sessions, meetings, skill-building and professional development classes
  • Capture accurate and complete information in Customer Relationship Management system (CRM)
    Cooperate with marketing and sales management to determine strategic approaches for sales
  • Other duties as assigned

Your Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
  • 1 or more years of business experience, prefer results-oriented or inside sales environment role
  • Passion for selling (IT industry or SLED background preferred)
  • Enthusiastic and self-starting approach
  • Demonstrable record of lead pass or sales success against a quota
  • Knowledge and experience of networking technologies and overall SolarWinds business environment preferred, but not required
  • Ability to communicate effectively (verbal and written)
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Ability to use Microsoft Office/Exchange and SalesForce 
  • The ability to work closely with SLED marketing, and the SLED sales team in Austin 

SolarWinds is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. SolarWinds will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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