Junior Business Development Representative - Middle East, Arabic speaker

About Us: We are the leader in human centric cybersecurity. Half a million customers, including 87 of the Fortune 100, rely on Proofpoint to protect their organizations. We're driven by a mission to stay ahead of bad actors and safeguard the digital world. Join us in our pursuit to defend data and protect people.

How We Work

At Proofpoint, you'll be part of a global team that breaks barriers to redefine cybersecurity, guided by our BRAVE core values: Bold in how we dream and innovate, Responsive to feedback, challenges, and opportunities, Accountable for results and best in class outcomes, Visionary in future focused problem solving, Exceptional in execution and impact.

Corporate Overview

Proofpoint is a leading cybersecurity company protecting organizations' greatest assets and biggest risks: vulnerabilities in people. With an integrated suite of cloud based solutions, Proofpoint helps companies around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks. Leading organizations of all sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 1000, rely on Proofpoint for people centric security and compliance solutions mitigating their most critical risks across email, the cloud, social media, and the web.

We are singularly devoted to helping our customers protect their greatest assets and biggest security risk: their people. That's why we're a leader in next generation cybersecurity.

The Role

We are currently seeking a highly motivated and energetic individual to join our Business Development team to generate qualified sales opportunities for our sales team in the Middle East.

As part of the Business Development team, you will be working closely with the regional sales and marketing teams to generate sales accepted leads via multiple channels with a mix of inbound (lead follow up) and outbound (prospecting) activities. You will be responsible for gathering intelligence and developing a deep understanding of your assigned accounts. You will then action this intelligence to connect our sales team with influencers and decision makers within the prospect accounts and across all vertical markets. Working closely with both Account Management and Marketing you will define and execute a successful account based sales strategy for the Middle East.

Your day to day

• Qualify and develop inbound and outbound sales accepted leads and respond to product inquiries.
• Gather actionable intelligence (competition, projects, purchase intent, etc.) for the list of accounts that you will be responsible for.
• Follow up on all leads generated by marketing and convert initial interest into sales accepted leads.
• Manage email campaigns to generate new sales prospects.
• Manage cold calling telephone based campaigns to generate new sales prospects.
• Complete accurate tracking of communication with current and potential customers in
• Schedule demonstrations between Enterprise Sales team members and potential customer.

What You Bring To The Team

• Previous experience developing new relationships via cold calling and email prospecting.
• Experience working and succeeding in a goal driven environment preferred.
• Highly motivated individual with a competitive personality, and good attention to detail.
• Previous experience with solutions that can be deployed in private or public clouds a plus.
• Experience working with or other CRM is a bonus.
• Excellent phone and interpersonal communication skills (verbal and written) as well as organisational skills.
• Academic qualifications Degree level educated ideally.
• Fluent English and Arabic language skills required.

Why Proofpoint

Protecting people is at the heart of our award winning cybersecurity solutions, and the people who work here are the key to our success. We're a customer focused and driven to win organisation with leading edge products. We are an inclusive, diverse, multinational company that believes in culture fit, but more importantly 'culture add', and we strongly encourage people from all walks of life to apply.

We believe in hiring the best and the brightest to help cultivate our culture of collaboration and appreciation. Apply today and explore your future at Proofpoint!

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive benefits
• Learning & Development: leadership and professional development workshops, stretch project assignments, and mentoring opportunities to help employees reach their full potential.
• Flexible work environment: Remote options, hybrid schedules, flexible hours, etc.
• Annual wellness and community outreach days
• Recognition for your contributions
• Global collaboration and networking opportunities

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