BDR (Sa) 19223
Cape Town - South Africa
Job Summary
Role: Sales Development Representative (SDR)
Location: South Africa (Fully Remote)
Compensation: $1300 - $1500/month USD base performance-based incentives (OTE up to $2000/month)
Schedule: US Business Hours
About the Client
Our client is a leadership and executive coaching firm selling to Fortune 500 companies across the globe. Their product is high-ticket consultative and genuinely transformative for the organizations that buy it. They have an existing pipeline active marketing driving warmer leads and a senior sales team ready to close. What they need now is someone to open the doors.
About the Role
This is a classic B2B SDR role but done right. You wont be dialing from a cold list with no context. The client invests in warming up prospects before outreach lands and youll have a mix of existing prospects to work alongside genuinely cold outreach. Your job is to get the right decision-makers on the calendar for the senior sales team.
Think HR leaders L&D directors and C-suite executives at large organizations. These are not easy contacts to reach and thats exactly why this role exists. If you thrive on the challenge of breaking through to hard-to-reach people and you know how to use LinkedIn email and the phone creatively to do it this role was made for you.
Key Responsibilities
- Work existing prospect lists and cold outreach targets to book qualified appointments for the senior sales team
- Execute multi-channel outreach across cold calling email and LinkedIn
- Research prospects and prepare briefing notes or sales enablement material for executives before calls
- Use tools like LinkedIn Sales Navigator Apollo or similar platforms to identify and engage decision-makers
- Maintain clean CRM records and report on pipeline activity consistently
- Collaborate with the sales team to refine messaging and targeting over time
Ideal Candidate
- Proven B2B SDR or appointment setting experience ideally selling into HR L&D or People functions
- Strong cold calling skills and comfortable handling rejection without losing momentum
- Creative and resourceful when reaching hard-to-reach contacts knows how to get past the gatekeeper
- Heavy LinkedIn user who understands social selling not just connection requests
- Excellent spoken and written English neutral accent preferred for US market calls
- Familiarity with the HR leadership development or executive coaching space is a strong plus
- Self-directed and able to work independently in a remote environment
Compensation Structure
- Base salary: $1300 - $1500/month USD depending on experience
- Variable comp: incentives per qualified appointment set and closed with potential to reach $2000/month
- Annual team performance bonus
Why This Role
Youll be selling a product that Fortune 500 companies genuinely value backed by a team that knows how to close once you get them in the room. Theres real room to grow here Neil was clear that the right person could eventually move into a closing role as the team scales. If youre a hunter who knows how to work a list build creative outreach sequences and get decision-makers on the phone this is your opportunity to grow with a company thats serious about investing in sales.
Required Experience:
IC
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