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Business Development Representative

🇺🇸 Hybrid - FL

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $36K - $60K

💻 Sales

🗓️ October 8th, 2025

Salesforce

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Elsevier is hiring a Business Development Representative. The role involves generating sales appointments through cold calling and emails, managing prospecting activities, and collaborating with the sales team to present technology solutions to prospective universities. The representative will maintain accurate customer accounts in Salesforce and support both sales and marketing efforts.

Highlights
  • Generate high volume of sales appointments via cold calling and emails
  • Manage prospecting timelines, deadlines, and follow-ups
  • Collaborate with outside sales team to schedule webinar demonstrations
  • Present technology and products to prospective universities
  • Create and maintain customer accounts using Salesforce
  • Required skills: excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication; ability to convey complex content
  • Strong relationship-building skills to understand customer needs
  • Proficient IT skills and ability to quickly learn new technologies
  • Compensation: U.S. base pay range $36,000 - $60,100; total target cash $55,400 - $92,600
  • Benefits include comprehensive health, retirement plans, wellbeing programs, family benefits, and paid time off

Business Development Representative Full Description

Business Development Representative
Florida
Full time

Business Development Representative
 
Do you enjoy building customer relationships that lead to successful outcomes?
 
About our Team
As a global leader in nursing and health education, we prepare Nurses and Allied Health professionals for successful careers. We provide world-class content, innovative learning tools and analytics that improve educational outcomes and help prepare students for the future. We build solid relationships with our customers to understand their needs and provide solutions that deliver successful results.
 
About the Role
As a Business Development Representative, you will be handling top-of-funnel sales, generating appointments, database management, strategic targeting, and cold calling. You will be an integral member of the Sales Team supporting the Sales Representatives and Marketing Team.
 
Responsibilities
  • Generating a high volume of sales appointments via cold calling and emails, and managing prospecting timelines, deadlines, and follow-ups
  • Collaborating with our outside sales team to schedule webinar demonstrations of our technology
  • Presenting our technology and products to prospective universities
  • Creating and maintaining customer accounts in Salesforce to ensure accurate information

Requirements
  • Demonstrate excellent written, verbal and presentation skills including communicating complex content to a range of audiences
  • Have a natural ability to build relationships with customers to understand future needs and requirements
  • Have great IT skills and the ability to learn new technology quickly
  • Be a motivated self-starter with a positive attitude and a customer-focused approach
  • Be a good team player, enjoy collaborating and solving problems with others

About the Business
A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.
 
U.S. National Base Pay Range: $36,000 - $60,100. Total Target Cash: $55,400 - $92,600. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.

Pay mix between base and variable pay varies based on sales role; please discuss with the recruiter.

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
● Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
● Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
● Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
● Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
● Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
● Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
● In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

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