Sales Development Representative

About the Role

As part of the Kerr sales organization, the Sales Development Representative will begin their sales career in a program designed to teach the necessary skills required to be successful in an assigned territory, navigate the sales cycle, and meet or exceed set targets. As part of a team for a leading dental supplier, you will be mentored towards working with existing customers, while growing the customer base across multiple dental market segments and channels.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop an understanding of who a Kerr Sales Representative is, and what the role entails
• Acquire product knowledge of core products through online, in person and in field sales training
• Explore learning on more technical product information and competitive activity to gain confidence supporting sales and marketing efforts
• Under the direction of the manager, begin mapping out accounts to focus on
• Begin to schedule lunch and learns, in parallel to attending product foundation training
• Ability to execute scheduled lunch and learn within the first 6 months.
• Acquire knowledge on the consistent use of CRM to manage sales opportunities and growth within the territory
• Schedule co-travel days to acquire learning required to move towards a field sales role
• Support Regional Key Account Manager with pricing submissions and custom catalogs

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• New to sales, with a desire to begin a sales career in dental
• Valid driver’s license with acceptable driving record
• Willing to relocate upon graduation of the SDP program, to take on a sales representative role in an open territory

Skills

• Curious, ambitious, adaptable, and ready to learn
• Capable of digesting and verbalizing technical product and clinical information.
• Ability to work independently, plan and prioritize workload
• Capacity to work collaboratively with the larger team
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with ability to effectively communicate technical, chemical, and mechanical information simply and concisely
• Ability to forge relationships with clinicians, decision makers, and dealer partners to build preference for the representative, Kerr products and the Kerr Brand
• Ability to make decisions with consideration to business impact for both current and future opportunities

Travel

• Ability to travel including evenings, weekends, and overnight stays up to 40%