Business Development Associate, Forecast
3+ days a week in office
AI-native platform for financial, resource & project management
Job no longer available
AI-native platform for financial, resource & project management
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
3+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To unlock the power of intelligence to help people do the best work of their lives.
Role
Who you are
- Prior experience in an lead generation role for a SaaS product, ideally with a focus on the SMB and mid market space
- A real creative flair and attitude - you’ll love to think of interesting ways to genuinely connect with our customers and understand their business challenges
- A commercial understanding and attitude, with the capability to understand the project management industry (and accompanying opportunity!) and how our tool fits into their technology landscape
- Determination and resilience will be key - you’ll be have a quota and your persistence and go getter attitude will be a key part of your success
- Excellent interpersonal skills both written and verbal, with the ability to to forge and build strong prospect relationships
- A hunger to learn and develop yourself - we’ll give you all the tools to need to be successful so your personal drive and ambition is a must!
What the job involves
- As a Business Development Associate, you’ll be part of our newly formed and quick growing London based team responsible for driving the Forecast rocketship forward, working in a space brimming with untapped opportunity
- You’ll enjoy the thrill of the chase – your commercial mindset and natural tenacity will be key in working to qualify meaningful leads via your own creative sourcing efforts or marketing campaigns, and you’ll partner closely with your Account Executive to hand over warm opportunities
- Using creative and thoughtful approaches, you’ll actively research and prospect new customers in a defined space, engaging with and building relationships with influential senior level stakeholders
- Develop a detailed strategy plan on how you will build your territory and account list
- Generate interest and evangelise the transformative value of the Forecast platform, engaging customers and passing over the qualified lead for closure to your partnered Account Executive
- Carefully and accurately document leads through our CRM, ensuring Salesforce hygiene so you can accurately forecast and track prospects
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Forecast is a business management platform that helps project-based companies automate operations, empower people, and leverage insights to drive business performance and client success.
The company believes every day should be filled with less ad-hoc and administrative work. That freedom creates more room to focus on evolving, improving, and empowering people to think innovatively. Whether it is designing, structuring, acting, or simply steering the company in the right direction.
Forecasts want to enable people to spend time acting from data, instead of spending time collecting it. It will enable people to move from the old world of projects first to a new world of client-first, which in turn will help deliver better results.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-28% employee growth in 12 months
Glassdoor (2.9)
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2021
$19m
SERIES A
Nov 2019
$5.5m
SEED
Total funding: $25.8m
Company benefits
- Time off: 25 days of annual leave and an extra three days off during the December holiday period
- Forecast flex days: 5 more paid days off every year to pursue your life outside of work
- Paid sabbatical: After four years at Forecast, you get a three-month paid sabbatical on us
- Pension: We offer pension plans, so you can plan your future and beyond - all including a Forecast contribution
- Health benefits: We provide insurance options to help keep you covered when things don't go to plan
- Flexible work: Stay close to your colleagues and your home with our flexible in-office policy
- Welcoming offices: Central locations, food, and fun reasons to get together outside of work
- Social events: We've always got fun reasons to get together outside of work
- Setup to succeed: The equipment, software, and study support you need
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Danny Larsen
(Co-Founder)Previously worked for 3 years at Netcompany, being a Consultant for 2 years and a Senior Architect for 1 year.
Dennis Kayser
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked for 5 years at IBM, holding various positions such as Senior Strategy Consultant - Smarter Commerce and Sales Operations - Distribution Sector.
Niels Frederiksen
(Co-Founder)Previously Web Analytics Consultant at Visionize for 2 years and co-founder of EMP Group
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