Business Development Rep - Intern

Summary

Jonas Chorum provides cloud-based hospitality technology solutions for independent hoteliers, management companies, and hotel chains. The Business Development Representative Intern will identify, qualify, and drive new leads into the sales funnel while supporting regional sales directors with sales planning, contract processing, email campaigns, prospecting, and smaller opportunity closures.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and maintain a Comprehensive Sales Plan, identifying key prospects to target within North America
• Database build as required
• Work closely with the RSDs to make sure everyone is inline and aware of what is being prospected and by whom
• Identify business opportunities by a series of research, qualifying and discovery to establish prospects needs and goals
• Operate as a bridge between marketing and sales as it relates to email campaigns. Following up on marketing distributed campaigns as well as creating different interest creation campaigns
• Qualify, sell and close smaller opportunities with a focus on b2b orders
• Learn to demonstrate Jonas Hospitality solutions to prospective clients and serve as a backup to the application consultants
• Stay up to date with Industry trends, market activities and competitor products
• Use Social Media to help drive brand and product awareness and source potential leads
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies
• Commit to outbound sales objectives of 50-100 outbound calls per day
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills

• Must be comfortable speaking on a telephone with good tonality and speed
• General experience with windows and MS Office software
• Ability to learn technical details regarding computer hardware and third party software      products offered by the Company
• Experience using Salesforce.com
• Successful applicant must be driven and hungry for success
• We are looking for someone who possesses a hunter mentality and does not take no for an answer
• Ability to work well individually or as part of a team
• Desire to provide outstanding customer service
• Excellent organizational skills
• Great attention to details
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to maintain high degree of confidentiality
• Willingness to enhance own performance through self-study
• 4-year College Degree preferred
• Previous experience working on a sales team preferred
• Especially in hospitality sales
• Previous hotel operations would be ideal

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Must be comfortable speaking on a telephone with good tonality and speed
• General experience with windows and MS Office software
• Ability to learn technical details regarding computer hardware and third party software      products offered by the Company
• Experience using Salesforce.com
• Successful applicant must be driven and hungry for success
• We are looking for someone who possesses a hunter mentality and does not take no for an answer
• Ability to work well individually or as part of a team
• Desire to provide outstanding customer service
• Excellent organizational skills
• Great attention to details
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to maintain high degree of confidentiality
• Willingness to enhance own performance through self-study

Nice to Haves

• 4-year College Degree preferred
• Previous experience working on a sales team preferred
• especially in hospitality sales
• Previous hotel operations would be ideal