Sales Development Representative - AcreValue

Company: Granular
Location: Champaign
Posted on: March 26, 2020

Job Description:

More than seven billion people depend on farms for healthy and affordable food. By 2050, the global population will surpass nine billion and farmers will need new ways to deliver on this surging demand. They'll be seeking options that both sustain the environment and help them to be economically viable, and are increasingly turning to the world's leading Farmer Management Software (FMS), Granular.

As an organization, we are committed to delivering the most innovative and industry leading digital products that our customers will love.

We're looking for a Sales Development Representative lead all outbound sales effort for our AcreValue product platform operating in the farmland market. This is a unique opportunity to accelerate your career in a fast-paced environment and be a part of a small and nimble sales team. You'll be part of a rapidly growing company full of passionate, committed people who are excited to transform agriculture.

The Sales Development Representative (SDR) is responsible for driving market share by qualifying and selling prospects that build pipeline for the inside sales organization. The AcreValue SDR will be responsible for detailed customer research, developing and qualifying inbound leads, outbound prospecting via cold calling and email. The SDR role will provide the knowledge and skills required for a natural progression into an Account Executive position with closing responsibilities.

At Granular, you'll have the opportunity to work with a top-tier leadership team with proven entrepreneurial expertise on a mission to revolutionize the $3 trillion agriculture industry. We're growing quickly, and expanding our team in [where]. We're looking for self-motivated, intellectual, and versatile individuals to join our team to improve the lives of our farmers.

What You'll Get To Do:

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• Inbound lead qualification and follow up activity based on marketing events and website inquiries
  
• Achieve or exceed goal for qualified meetings on a weekly basis
  
  
• Learn key areas of the market for AcreValue customers including agricultural lenders, farm managers, land investors, land brokers, and other real estate professionals
  
• Outbound prospecting via account/contact research and cold calling to generate and uncover opportunities
  
  
• Provide research within targeted accounts to identify key contacts and critical account information prior to prospecting call
  
  
• Produce high level of call and email activity daily
  
• Proactively continue company product and competitive product and market knowledge via website, online webinars, and marketing information
  
  
• Manage and log activity in Salesforce.com daily
  
  Our Ideal Candidate:
  
  
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  • Recent undergraduate with a degree in Business, Communications, or a related field
    
  • Interest in agriculture and technology
    
  • Sales or business development experience preferred
    
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a high energy, dynamic sales team environment
    
    
  • High stamina, with ability to look past short-term roadblocks and stay motivated for long-term win
    
  • Master time manager - ability to routinely prioritize tasks by their intended impact
    
  • Well-organized, self-motivated, competitive and driven by success
    
  • At ease on the phone and able to engage diverse personalities
    
    
  • Driven and persistent with daily goals to succeed individually and in a team environment
    
    
  • Interested in gaining intimate knowledge of the agriculture industry
    
    
  • Creative and thinks outside the box to find and sell existing and new prospects
    
    
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Google Docs and Salesforce.com a plus
    
    Perks and Benefits:
    
    
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    • Upward mobility. We are growing quickly and need talent who can take on increasingly challenging and rewarding roles
      
    • Generous Vacation
      
    • 401k Matching Program
      
      
    • Employer sponsored Medical, Dental, and Vision
      
    • Vision and Dental FSA and Dependent Care FSA
      
    • Family, Maternity and Paternity Leave
      
    • Paid Adoption Leave and Adoption Assistance
      
    • Learning and Development Programs
      
    • Open floor plan, dog-friendly offices
      
      Who We Are:
      
      Granular is Farm Management Software (FMS) that is helping thousands of farmers to build more profitable and efficient farms today and steward their lands for generations to come. As the world's leading FMS, Granular uniquely combines an industry-leading support team with the most recommended suite of easy-to-use powerful software to help farmers and their teams run all aspects of their farm business. From financials to agronomy to operations, farmers are now able to make data-driven decisions with greater confidence in an increasingly challenging environment.
      
      Granular was founded in 2014 with the mission of helping farmers run more profitable and efficient business instead of maximizing bushels. Built as a collaboration between several of the most advanced family farms and top technology investors including Google Ventures, Granular is widely credited for launching the first modern, built in the cloud and mobile-centric FMS in 2014. In 2017, Corteva Agriscience acquired Granular to bring together the best technologists, scientists, and entrepreneurs from across the world with its global presence and deep resources to serve the needs of farmers through the transformative effects of digital technologies.
      
      Today, our over 400 passionate employees are on a mission helping our customers solve their problems today and for food demands in the future by transforming agriculture through continuous innovations in farm productivity, profitability, and environmental sustainability.
      
      Granular is San Francisco-based, with offices worldwide. Granular is an independent, wholly-owned subsidiary of Corteva Agriscience (NYSE:CTVA), a spin off of DowDuPont---. Learn more about our company and people at http://granular.ag/, Twitter, @GranularAg, and Instagram, @Granular_Ag, or facebook.com/GranularAgriculture/
      
      Status: Non-Exempt

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