Sales Development Representative
KPA exists to help companies keep their workforces safe and healthy. At the end of the day, we succeed if our clients can send their employees home at night, having not experienced the trauma of a workplace accident or an injury.
How do we do it? By offering a unique combination of software, consulting, and training that helps clients identify, remedy, and prevent workplace safety and compliance problems so they can focus on what’s important—their core business.
Help us help keep people safe and businesses working efficiently. Named as one of Built In Colorado’s Best Places to Work, KPA is made up of diverse, vibrant individuals working together for the greater good.
We’re here to help our clients build safe, thriving organizations, and we’re looking for some like-minded people to help us do it.
KPA has an immediate opening for a motivated Sales Development Representative to develop new business from a range of inbound leads and outbound sales efforts to drive substantial sales growth in new and existing markets. This role requires cross-functional collaboration, working closely with marketing and field sales teams. A successful candidate will be familiar with the SDR function and tenacious about growing business for their sales teams in their designate territory and vertical. The SDR role is pivotal for KPA’s success and scaling.
In this entry sales role, you will be accountable for activity metrics, meeting set metrics, outreach cadence expectations and accountable for bookings. This position requires an organized, focused and positive individual who can take coaching and learn while doing. Integrity is a must.
More specifically, you will:
- Actively generate qualified meetings and opportunities with a defined business vertical.
- Manage an ongoing outbound, account-based strategy to drive new business for a field sales team.
- Manage a pipeline of inbound marketing generated leads.
- Apply social selling tactics to generate new business.
- Work closely with field Account Executives to develop territory and account plans.
- Participate in discussions with marketing and sales management teams to develop and monitor marketing plans, lead generation, and effective measurement against sales goals.
- Precisely track business metrics including activity metrics, meetings set metrics, outreach cadence expectations and accountable for bookings.
- Effectively uses marketing and sales automation systems including Salesforce, Outreach, Hubspot.
Job Qualifications:
- 0-2 years of experience in a role carrying a monthly performance target or quota. Bonus if it was in a B2B technology environment.
- Experience in an outbound, cold calling sales environment.
- Comfortable navigating challenging conversations and overcoming common roadblocks to quickly build rapport with sales prospects.
- Experience managing strategic outreach efforts that make a measurable impact on lead conversion, sales pipeline generation, and sales bookings.
- Experience using sales productivity tools like a CRM to scale and track your efforts.
- Ability to build relationships internally and partner with Account Executives on account-based selling.
- Desire to build a career in sales.
- If you don't meet all of these qualifications, tell us why you're a great candidate!
Compensation:
- Annual base salary between $42-48k
- Quarterly bonus and commission potential up to $8k, bringing annual on-target earnings between $70-80k
KPA Office/Event Attendance and COVID-19 Vaccination Policy
Daily office attendance is currently optional for all employees. Each office will be open for those seeking the opportunity to return to the office. Team meetings and events will be held in both KPA Offices and outside of KPA Offices where employee attendance will be expected.
For all KPA office sites, events and meetings, any employee attending, even temporarily, must be fully vaccinated with at least fourteen (14) days following their final vaccine. The final vaccine is defined as a second dose for Pfizer or Moderna, or the first dose of Johnson and Johnson.
About KPA
For over 30 years, KPA has helped 10,000+ clients achieve regulatory compliance, maintain a safe workplace, and save money.
Business Nuts and Bolts
Founded in 1986, KPA is a leading provider of Environment, Health & Safety (EHS), and Workforce Compliance software and consulting services. KPA solutions help clients identify, remedy, and prevent workplace safety and compliance problems across their entire enterprise. The combination of KPA's software, consulting services, and award-winning training content helps organizations minimize risk so they can focus on what's important—their core business.
KPA’s majority investor is a tier-one private equity firm, Providence Equity Partners, which provides -capital and expertise to accelerate growth organically and through additional acquisitions. We’re now in an exciting time of accelerated growth with the promotion of our SaaS solutions.
Honoring Our Experiences, Building Mutual Respect
At KPA, we strive to build an environment that respects our talented colleagues’ individual experiences and mutual respect for our customers and partners regardless of color, religion, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. We aim to make meaningful contributions to celebrate our differences and learn from each other, uniting in an open and accepting culture that acknowledges everyone’s physical, workplace safety, and psychological safety.
We are passionate about what we do, how we do and why we do it. Our culture is driven by the KPA core values – Integrity, Helpful, Excellence, Agile, Respectful, and Teamwork. Success will be determined by the capabilities, energy and character of the people we bring into our organization and the performance they achieve.
KPA, with headquarters in Colorado and teammates throughout the United Sates, is recognized as one of Colorado's Best Places to Work 2021 by Built In Colorado.
“To be ranked so highly in Built In’s Best Places to Work Awards is a recognition of KPA’s dedication to creating a team of outstanding professionals and our efforts to create a positive and safe workplace culture for everyone,” said Chris Fanning, KPA President and CEO. “I believe we’ve developed a high caliber organization comprised of passionate people who are experts in their respective fields and deliver great value to our customers.”
As a growing company KPA values its employees by supporting them with a full benefits package including:
- Medical (both PPO and HDHP plans available)
- Flexible Spending Account or Health Savings Account (dependent on medical plan)
- Dental
- Vision
- Paid Time Off increasing with tenure
- Paid Holidays and floating holidays
- 401(k) match with immediate vesting
- No-cost Basic Life and AD&D Insurance
- Short- and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Telehealth
- Pet Insurance
KPA is committed to providing equal opportunity in all of our employment practices, including selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation, to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, religion, religious dress/grooming, color, ethnicity, sex (including sex stereotyping), sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, creed, uniform service member status, military or veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, breast-feeding and/or pregnancy-related conditions, age, protected medical condition, leave status, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristics, or any other legally-protected status in accordance with the requirements of all federal, state and local laws. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
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