Position Summary: As a Sales Development Representative, your mission is to prospect warm leads via phone, text, and email to qualify them for Career Step programs and transfer to an Account Executive for enrollments. You will be the first point of contact for an enormous number of learners, requiring a high degree of organizational and professional phone skills.
$15/hr + No Cap Commission! With an Earning potential of $60k! Essential Job Functions: Prospecting by using Salesforce to contact warm leads to discuss their career goals in healthcare and transfer them to an Account Executive to close the sale via text, email, and phone calls. Make strategic outbound calls, emails, and texts Contact warm prospects to convert to opportunities for our Account Executives to close Exceed sales quotas on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis You create your own paycheck, requires true ownership of your work ethic Match customer's needs to our E-learning products efficiently Build value in the product and overcome objections Knowledge, Skills, Abilities: Education: Associate's Degree or higher preferred Experience: Customer-facing roles; Working in a B2C environment; Pipelining; Prospecting; Salesforce experience is a plus; InContact phone experience is a plus Computer Skills: Fluent with MS Office, Word, Excel, Outlook email. Computer proficiency is highly important. Other Requirements: Strong written and oral communication skills Analyzing data and drawing conclusions Previous experience in sales or sales development is a plus Ability to multi-task and work efficiently Contact Center experience a plus About Us: At Penn Foster Group, we are transforming online learning to help learners by bringing together Penn Foster, CareerStep, Ashworth College, James Madison High School, the New York Institute of Photography, the New York Institute of Art and Design, and other education platforms. Together, we create an accelerated path to greater economic mobility through real-world skills and knowledge that enable learners to achieve long-term success in the workplaces of the future. Our history dates back to 1890 when our founder, Thomas Foster, pioneered distance education by offering training by mail for coal miners to get the necessary skills for safer jobs. Today, with the partners who use our education and training programs, we continue that mission of providing accessible training and education for in-demand skills and are building a workforce that's prepared for the future job market.
Equal Employment Opportunity: We strive toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Penn Foster Group by intentionally building teams that are diverse – in identities, lived experiences, and ideas to create a culture where people feel connected to each other and have a sense of belonging. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion because it is the foundation that enables us to achieve what we set out to do as an organization – from maximizing the number of learners who can reach their goals while giving them the kinds of experiences we want them to have, to becoming the type of company we want to work in.
What We Offer : We offer a robust benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending, generous paid time off, sponsored volunteer opportunities, a 401K with a company match, plus free access to all of our online programs.
