Sales Development Associate - France

Company Description

Work smart, have fun and make an impact!

Our purpose is to guide all companies toward a sustainable world.

EcoVadis is the leading provider of business sustainability ratings. Our solutions are backed by an international team of experts and powerful technology.

We analyze data and build sustainability scorecards that give companies actionable insights into their environmental, social and ethical risks.

Why apply to EcoVadis? Be a part of the global sustainability change in business. Grow your career. Work with extraordinary people.

Feel valued for your contribution.Learn more about our team and culture on EcoVadis careers page. If you have questions about the company or open roles you can chat with an insider.

Job Description

Frontline employees engage and support all companies to leverage EcoVadis solutions in order to foster continuous improvement of sustainable business practices in global supply chains.

SDAs are responsible for prospecting and outreaching activities on target accounts with a focus on engaging and qualifying all prospective customers. This role has the opportunity to be the first touch point for the largest firms in France to evangelize the importance of Sustainability and ESG in global supply chains.

• Generating new business opportunities to fuel revenue for EcoVadis
• Conducting high-level discovery and educational conversations with Senior Executives (Directors of Sustainability or Procurement) in Target Accounts
• Scheduling qualified meetings for Account Executives
• Evangelizing the importance of Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility for the supply chain of Global 500 companies
• Leveraging your teammates (Marketing and Account Executives) to develop targeted lists, call strategies, and messaging in order to drive opportunities in regional areas
• Maintaining an activity (emails, calls, LinkedIn) volume with the intent to qualify leads and create pipeline growth
• Meeting or exceeding your target
• Staying up-to-date on industry trends and competition
• Quarterly business plan creation, reporting, and presentation to all key stakeholders
• Recording and documenting all calls and communications in Salesforce in order to identify trends for improvement
• Monitoring social networks such as Linkedin for sales opportunities and leads,

Reporting on weekly results, both qualitative and quantitative.

Qualifications

Our ideal candidate for this role will have an outgoing personality, a desire to learn new skills and to build a career in sales and sustainability. This person would have excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal, and active listening skills, as well as the ability to work autonomously. 

• Specific qualifications for the role include:
• University degree in Business or Sustainability related areas,
• Experience working in Sustainability, CSR or B2B Procurement would be a plus
• Business proficiency in French and English is a must to be eligible for this role as per the territory. 
• Knowledge of the French corporate business culture,
• Passionate about Sustainability and willingness to pursue a career in both Sustainability and Sales,
• Highly motivated, driven, and self-starting
• Strong time management & organizational skills,
• Superior communication skills and the ability to build rapport,
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple tasks,
• Ability to work well in an international team environment in a fast growing business.
• If you are interested, please tell us more about yourself in a cover letter!

Additional Information

• Location: Barcelona
• Contract: Permanent

Our growing team in Spain is full of talented professionals from various fields who all share a desire to make sustainability real. We offer competitive salaries and support personal growth from day one. This includes extensive onboarding, teammates' support and a brand new e-learning platform bursting with courses and modules. So you can learn new skills and fine-tune old ones!

Benefits:

• International and very friendly work environment
• Hybrid for colleagues who live near our offices (4 days per month) otherwise remote in the country you were hired in
• Flexible working hours
• Home office allowance program
• IT equipment allowance
• 90 days Working from anywhere policy
• Meals and Transportation Vouchers (Cobee card)
• Health, Wellness, and Dental Benefits
• Unlimited and completely confidential sessions with psychologists and online well-being programs.
• Employee referral bonus policy
• Paid employee volunteer day
• Paid moving day ( 1/year)
• Access to online learning library
• Virtual and in-person team building events
• Co working space with various services + opportunity to work in different locations (Europe and International)

Our hiring team looks forward to reviewing your CV, in English, with a guaranteed response to every application. A new job with purpose awaits you!

Don’t fit all the criteria but still think you’d be a good candidate? Please apply anyway to give our hiring team the opportunity to assess your skills and to learn more about what you could bring to EcoVadis. We’re interested in hiring capable people, regardless of professional and educational background.

Can the hiring process be adjusted to suit my needs? Yes. We want everyone going through the hiring process with EcoVadis to feel confident that you are able to demonstrate your full potential. We welcome applications from disabled people, people with long-term health conditions, and neurodiverse candidates. If you need any adjustments, including the provision of interview questions, please let the hiring team know.

Our team’s strength comes from everyone’s uniqueness and is founded upon mutual respect. EcoVadis commits to equity, inclusion and reducing bias in our hiring processes. EcoVadis does not accept any form of discrimination based on color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, beliefs, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, disability, parental status, or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique. In your application, we encourage you to remove personal information such as: photographs, marital status, number of children, religion, gender, residential postal code, university graduation date, past medical or parental leave(s) taken, nationality (instead, please state if you are legally eligible to work in the job region/country), university name (instead, please state any degrees obtained and the study major)