Taos, an IBM Company, is immediately hiring a Business Development Representative. This position will be located in (insert location) and remote. We offer a competitive salary and solid benefits package.

Who you are:

You are an eager, motivated professional with previous roles in sales or business development. Your experience has made you comfortable with generating new business leads and identifying potential opportunities through daily calling activities. You possess solid interpersonal abilities and understand the importance of maintaining relationships with key contacts and decision makers. Your ability to follow through allows you to independently execute both tactical and strategic initiatives. You are an excellent communicator with strong verbal skills to cold call and speak with high-level executives as well as strong written skills to produce documentation and newsletters. You would thrive in a role that requires you to work quickly and efficiently under minimal supervision.

What you’ll be doing:

Owning, maintaining, and modernizing a proprietary database, updating its details via Discover.org and other sources
Generating leads and identifying potential opportunities for Taos through daily calling activities into the database and other lead sources, focusing on cold-calling and positioning the Taos portfolio
Overseeing guest invitations to exclusive Taos events, collaborating with Sales, Marketing, and Line of Business leaders
Owning and developing a monthly newsletter, distributing through layers of internal management, and keeping key contacts up to date on the latest happenings at Taos
Assisting Taos Business Development Executives (BDEs) with bringing in new business as Taos continues to grow in the IT Services marketplace
Providing excellent communication on a regular basis with BDEs and executives
Representing Taos in a highly professional and courteous manner
Using daily calls, personal contacts, and social media outreach to promote Taos services and produce qualified leads
Developing an in-depth understanding of Taos service and solution offerings to ensure your ability to answer technical and non-technical questions that prospects may have
Coordinating and scheduling meetings for prospects and BDEs
Following up on prospective leads
Gathering market insight through calling efforts by determining patterns and market trends
Adding and updating contact and company information in the database
Documenting all activity for each contact and touchpoint
Performing other duties as assigned

What you’ll bring with you:

Previous sales experience working from a target list (Inside Sales experience is a plus)
Aptitude to learn and understand the IT service/consulting business
Time management skills to efficiently develop relationship across a variety of channels
Ability to prospect, qualify, and build a working pipeline of accounts
Comfortable having “BANT” qualifying discussions around current technologies, projects, and initiatives
Excellent communication and customer service skills, great phone presence
Motivation to perform a repetitive task
Ability to work in a fast-paced sales environment
Comfortable cold calling prospects
Hands-on experience with Salesforce.com and MS Excel

Who is Taos?

Taos helps today’s enterprises and rapidly growing businesses harness the power of the cloud and DevOps with digital transformation and optimization solutions. From Executive Leadership to our delivery teams, Taos listens, understands, and delivers best-in-class work. Our deep technical expertise and solutions-driven approach help address our client’s biggest business challenges and opportunities. As a Global Leader of Cloud and DevOps, Taos continues to solve What’s Next.

Referrals:

We love referrals so much that we pay for them! If you know someone that you would recommend, send an email to referrals@taos.com or Contact Us and we will do the rest! We’ll make sure that you receive the $1000 referral bonus after they are employed with us.

Compensation:

Our compensation package includes a competitive salary, medical and dental insurance, 401k, paid vacation, sick time and holiday pay, plus loads of free training (Puppet, Chef, Nagios, LAMP Stack, PMP, ITIL, Python, etc.)!

Equal Opportunity

Taos Mountain, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color national origin, sex, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

Veterans are encouraged to apply!

E-Verify Participant:

This employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. Please go to http://www.taos.com/join-our-team/ and review the E-Verify Participant and Right to Work links for more information.