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Sales Development Representative, Dutch Speaking

Abnormal Security · Remote - UK

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Motion
Outbound: you'll be cold calling and emailing
Language
Dutch required
Level
SDR / BDR

What they'll measure you on

Quoted from the posting. Have a number ready for each one in your answers.

  • “The ideal SDR candidate should have the perfect mix of experience, sales intuition, career ambition, team oriented mindset, quota driven mentality, empathetic / humble, positive, confident and can handle rejection.”
  • “Proactively seek new business opportunities in the market”
  • “Qualify leads from marketing campaigns as sales opportunities”
  • “Meet or exceed monthly, quarterly and yearly targets”

Tools in this posting

  • Salesforce

    Know how a lead becomes a contact, an account and an opportunity, and how you'd log a call and a next step.

  • Orum or Nooks

    Parallel dialers mean more connects per hour. Show you can open well in the first five seconds when a live person answers.

Your prep checklist

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Questions they're likely to ask

  • Walk me through why you want to be an SDR, and why here.

    They want proof you chose this role and this company on purpose. Name something specific from their site.

  • Tell me about a time you got a lot of 'no's in a row. What did you do?

    Rejection is the job. Show a habit that kept you going and what you changed.

  • How do you organize your day when you have 80 dials and 40 emails to get through?

    They're checking you can plan: blocks of time, priorities, and when you review what worked.

  • Tell me about a goal you set and hit. How did you track it?

    SDRs live by numbers. Use a real number and say how you measured progress.

  • What would you do in your first 30 days here?

    Bring a short 30-60-90 outline. It shows you think like the job already started.

  • What feedback have you received that changed how you work?

    SDR managers often ask about coachability. Pick something real and show the before and after.

  • Cold call me. You're selling our product to one of their buyers.

    Outbound SDR interviews often include a role-play. Open with who you are, why you're calling, and a question.

  • The prospect says 'Just send me an email.' What do you say?

    Acknowledge it, ask one question to make the email useful, then ask for 15 minutes.

  • How would you research an account before calling?

    Name two or three signals: recent hiring, funding, a new leader, tech they use. Then how it changes your opener.

  • Write a three-sentence cold email to a VP at a target account.

    Short, about them, one ask. Reference something specific.

Questions to ask them

  • What does a great first 90 days look like for an SDR here?
  • How are SDRs measured: meetings booked, meetings held, or pipeline created?
  • How do SDRs and AEs work together day to day?
  • What's the typical path from SDR to AE here, and how long does it take?
  • What does coaching look like: call reviews, role-plays, 1:1s?

Expect objections in the role-play. The objection library has word-for-word answers to the twelve most common ones.

Read the full posting
About the Role We are hiring the “best of the best” sales professionals who are passionate about their craft and want to continue to excel within our elite sales organization. Our Business Development Representatives will be the “tip of the spear” in the sales process within an assigned territory of business for prospective accounts. The ideal SDR candidate should have the perfect mix of experience, sales intuition, career ambition, team oriented mindset, quota driven mentality, empathetic / humble, positive, confident and can handle rejection. The candidate will need to have good organization and written / verbal communication skills, Needs to be comfortable with making phone calls and professional to have high level conversations with C level stakeholders in medium to large organizations. The candidate needs to be able to adapt to a fast paced environment, be familiar with our tools, our processes and be able to ramp up quickly. What you will do • Contact potential clients through outbound cold calls and emails • Identify client needs and suggest appropriate products/services • Proactively seek new business opportunities in the market • Qualify leads from marketing campaigns as sales opportunities • Exercise leadership, demonstrate effective sales planning, and work in a positive and motivating way with internal counterparts and external customers. • Meet or exceed monthly, quarterly and yearly targets • Effectively partner and work across sales teams • Act as the subject matter expert on Abnormal AI product offering. Must Haves • 6 months - 1 plus years proven work experience as a Business Development Rep • Fluency in Dutch is a must • Representative, Sales Account Executive or similar role (less experience is ok for the right candidate) • Demonstrated ability to collaborate with a distributed sales team • Capability of understanding customer pain points, requirements and correlating potential business to value • Strong, professional communication skills -- written, verbal, presentation • Aptitude to manage numerous requests and time demands concurrently, while achieving production goals from assigned territory or set of accounts • Hands-on experience with multiple sales techniques (including cold calls) • We actively encourage our SDRs to embrace and utilise AI to its fullest potential, whether to create sharper personalisation or stronger relevance in prospect outreach. We'd love to hear how you currently leverage AI tools in your prospecting and day-to-day workflow • Drive, Grit, Team Oriented: strong desire to compete and win • BA/BS degree or relevant experience Nice to Have • Outreach • Salesforce • Orum • Lusha • ActivelyAI • Glean • Claude #LI-AA1 A note on AI in our process: Abnormal AI uses AI-assisted tools to help our recruiting team prepare for candidate interviews. These tools analyze resume content and role requirements to suggest interview questions and areas for the interviewer to explore.They do not make hiring decisions or screen candidates automatically. Every decision about a candidacy is made by a person. Further, if your application is successful and Abnormal AI makes a conditional offer of employment, we will carry out pre-employment checks which must be successfully completed to progress to a final offer. All processes and pre-employment checks are in line with prevailing legislation and Abnormal AI's policies relevant to our security and privacy standards. Abnormal AI is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. For our EEO policy statement please click here. If you would like more information on your EEO rights under the law, please click here.

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