Responsibilities
Responsibilities
As a Senior Account Development Representative (ADR), you play a critical role in driving pipeline creation and business growth by identifying, qualifying, and developing opportunities for the sales team. This position focuses on outbound prospecting, relationship building, and collaboration with Account Executives to bring new customers into our ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead Qualification and Scheduling:
Conduct outbound phone calls, emails, and social engagements to qualify leads and schedule introductory meetings with Account Executives. - Facilitate Initial Engagements:
Host introductory calls to identify potential customer interest, assess needs, and determine the next steps. Strive to meet the Sales Accepted Lead (SAL) criteria, ensuring quality over quantity. - Performance Metrics:
Consistently achieve or exceed monthly SAL quotas, as outlined in the annual compensation plan. - Innovative Prospecting Strategies:
Develop and implement creative social prospecting, social selling, and email outreach strategies to increase lead engagement and meeting scheduling success. - Proactive Follow-ups:
Regularly follow up with prospects who do not yet meet the SAL criteria to nurture relationships, uncover new opportunities, and explore alternative engagement paths within their organization.
Education / Qualifications
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate ideas clearly and confidently in both written and verbal formats
- Knowledge or exposure to the Oil & Gas, Energy, Mining & Metals, and Petrochemicals industries
- Experience in dealing with large strategic accounts
- Background in the Software industry is preferred
- Proven experience or aptitude in outbound prospecting, lead qualification, and engaging with prospects across various channels
- Familiarity with Salesforce or similar CRM tools, along with other sales enablement platforms
- Self-starter with a proactive attitude and the ability to adapt to evolving strategies and targets
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, particularly in a sales or marketing capacity
- Understanding of account-based marketing (ABM) and sales methodologies is a plus
- Engineering degree preferred
- Team player with a strong teamwork attitude
- Seeking a self-motivated individual with a hunter mentality who:
- Thrives on discovering new markets
- Builds strong pipelines
- Creates growth opportunities
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About Octave
Octave provides mission-critical software that empowers organizations to make informed decisions across every stage of the asset lifecycle — Design, Build, Operate and Protect — where performance, safety, and reliability are non-negotiable and failure is not an option.
Turning complex operational data into actionable intelligence, Octave connects expertise, real-world conditions and enterprise-scale insight to improve performance, resilience and incident response where it matters most.
Octave has approximately 7,200 employees in 45 countries. Learn more at octave.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
Why work for Octave?
All in. Always forward. That's the way we do things around here. We put trust in our people because we believe it's the best way to unleash potential, bring ideas to life, and keep moving ahead. And it's why we're committed to creating an environment that's truly supportive, providing you with the resources you need to support your ambitions, no matter who you are or where you are in the world.
Everyone is welcome
At Octave, we believe that diverse and inclusive teams are critical to the success of our people and our business. Here, everyone is welcome. As an inclusive workplace, we don't discriminate. In fact, we embrace differences and are fully committed to creating equal opportunities, an inclusive environment, and fairness for all.
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