Sustainable Business Development Associate !

Our Strive growing team is looking for a new Sustainability Engagement Associate (native Dutch)!

Strive belongs to the Vertis Environmental Finance group. For over 20 years, our mission is to inspire and empower businesses to make the transition to a zero-carbon economy and our drive is relentless to move the world towards a greener future. At Strive we have developed Klimatribe, a 3-in-1 platform that seeks to engage employees in the fight against climate change by measuring, reducing and neutralizing their carbon footprint.

As our ideal candidate, you will be passionate about a zero-carbon world, entrepreneurial in your creativity, and strategic in your actions. You will already have some experience in sales and will be excited about developing new business with our corporate clients.

The role is based in Madrid.

Please apply ONLY if you satisfy the below requirements and with an ENGLISH language CV.

🌟 The role

This position will report to the Head of Klimatribe Product and the person will support developing new business and following up the current clients. You will have personal sales targets according to the business strategy, you will contact clients directly, discuss needs, prepare proposals, and close deals.

More About The Role And Core Responsibilities

• Build and execute a sales business plan according to your manager. Develop new business.
• Contact clients directly and build your relationships.
• Follow up and support customers with strategic and administrative tasks.
• Prepare proposals for the clients together with your manager
• Data entry tasks for sales figures, metrics, and reports
• Develop sales process improvements

We believe you'll be great for this role if you...

• Native Dutch speaker. English fluent and knowledge of other European languages are a plus.
• +2 years successful track record in sales, B2B will be an advantage
• Passion and education on sustainability or related industry is desirable
• Have exceptional communication skills
• You are goal-oriented
• Empathy to anticipate and understand clients’ needs, resilience and self-motivated
• Good problem-solving capacity. Develop a process that helps clients determine the best solutions
• Have high energy

Our benefits and perks 🏆

• Work for an inspiring vision for a more sustainable future.
• The opportunity to join an early-stage product team with incredible opportunity and help grow the product into a profitable addition to the business.
• We believe in the future of work being FLEXIBLE, and we offer our employees flexible working from home agreements.
• Work amongst a diverse team of passionate, and high-calibre individuals located across the world.
• Team events to bring our people in amazing destinations across Europe.
• Career development opportunities.
• Of course, a competitive salary and bonus scheme
• You can sleep well at night knowing you are helping organizations towards a greener future.

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