About Us
Sophos is a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions that defeat cyberattacks, including Managed Detection and Response (MDR) and incident response services and a broad portfolio of endpoint, network, email, and cloud security technologies. As one of the largest pure-play cybersecurity providers, Sophos defends more than 600,000 organizations and more than 100 million users worldwide from active adversaries, ransomware, phishing, malware, and more. Sophos’ services and products connect through the Sophos Central management console and are powered by Sophos X-Ops, the company’s cross-domain threat intelligence unit. Sophos X-Ops intelligence optimizes the entire Sophos Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which includes a centralized data lake that leverages a rich set of open APIs available to customers, partners, developers, and other cybersecurity and information technology vendors. Sophos provides cybersecurity-as-a-service to organizations needing fully managed security solutions. Customers can also manage their cybersecurity directly with Sophos’ security operations platform or use a hybrid approach by supplementing their in-house teams with Sophos’ services, including threat hunting and remediation. Sophos sells through reseller partners and managed service providers (MSPs) worldwide. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at
www.sophos.com.
Role Summary
Sophos is looking for a candidate with phone based selling experience who is hungry to take their business development skills to the next level. To join our world class APJ Marketing team, you will need to be sharp, tenacious and passionate. You will develop into a high calibre cyber security consultant to the India mid-market, and to articulate our rapidly evolving technology to secure them against the rapidly changing threat landscape of today and tomorrow. Thus establishing skills for a career in a critical and leading technology sector.
As a Sales Development Representative (SDR), you will be responsible for generating new business opportunities for the entire Sophos product suite. This high impact position has been created to help accelerate the growth of Sophos across India, by proactively generating high value new business opportunities from mid-market and small-enterprise organizations.
The Sales Development Representative’s primary function is to proactively uncover, nurture and generate new business opportunities for the Sophos’ sales teams by leveraging both inbound marketing generated leads and via strategic pro-active outbound prospecting.
These qualified opportunities will then be passed to our Sales team and partner network for follow-up and closure. The SDR role is key link between marketing and sales.
What you will do
- Based in India, the primary focus is to identify and nurture new business opportunities in the India mid-market sector, through both inbound and outbound prospecting activities.
- You will manage a funnel of inbound leads coming in from our website and leads created from field marketing activities such as webinars and events.
- You will also research and hunt for new business opportunities using outbound prospecting techniques, making use of prospecting tools such as Cognism, ZoomInfo, 6sense and LinkedIn Sales Navigator
- You will leverage various data sources, qualitative data insights and prospecting information to build a significant ‘target prospect’ pool to nurture leads and ultimately convert them into high quality sales opportunities for sales.
- Conduct high quality discovery calls with prospects and develop the ability to articulate value and sell cutting edge technology solutions to businesses throughout the region.
- Nurture leads into high quality sales opportunities for local channel and sales.
- Develop the ability to articulate value and sell cutting edge technology solutions to businesses.
- Become an expert on information security to be able to advise prospects and customers.
- Uncover and compose detailed, succinct summaries of prospects infrastructure, pain and business.
- Achieve quotas around opportunity generation and revenue from high daily activity levels.
- Work closely with field marketing to understand and help execute successful campaigns.
- Develop rapport and relationships with channel partners and sales teams.
- Attend and participate in weekly/monthly assigned team meetings.
What you will bring
- 2-3+ years' experience as an SDR in a new business, phone-based, high-volume, customer-facing role.
- Proven experience and track record in an outbound prospecting lead generation environment.
- Familiarity with CRM systems (Salesforce) and SDR productivity tools (Outreach, ZoomInfo, 6sense, Sales Navigator).
- Ability to connect with, engage and identify customer needs and pain points, and propose relevant solutions.
- Experience in handling objections and overcoming rejections.
- Process-oriented approach to lead management and workflows.
- Understanding of the partner / distributor ecosystem.
- Experience working with sales reps / account managers for appointment-setting.
- Experience in the IT and/or IT security industry within the B2B space in India.
- Passion for technology in the B2B space.
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At Sophos, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don't check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don't let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply.
What's Great About Sophos?
· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. Please refer to the location details in our job postings for further information.
· Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
· Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
· Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
· Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
· Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
· Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing
Our Commitment To You
We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.
Data Protection
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