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CTS & CloudM • Utrecht, Netherlands

Business Developer

Employment type:  Full time

4 days/week at home

A little flex time

Job Description

Business Developer

| Dutch language skills required |

We have an exciting opportunity within our high performing B2B Sales Team. As the successful candidate your primary focus will be to increase the market penetration of Google Cloud products within our target customer base.

You'll possess a willingness to learn and will be energetic and proactive in identifying new prospects while working closely together with the Google Cloud Sales teams. You’ll have a desire to drive activity within target customers using your creativity, and a strong motivation to be successful within a growing business.

Reporting into the Marketing Manager you will be responsible for the qualification of all new leads as well as following up on potential prospects and identifying new opportunities. You’ll have opportunities to increase your knowledge and skills quickly through ongoing training and development.

Please note: The ability to speak Dutch is an important requirement for this role.

Responsibilities:

  • Identify and establish relationships with target contacts within potential customers
  • Book high quality meetings to meet with our Sales Team
  • Follow up on inbound marketing activity and leads
  • Qualify and nurture lead queues
  • Identify opportunities for upselling within existing customers
  • Update the CRM on a daily basis ensuring it’s up to date and relevant
  • Achieve sales performance in line with set targets
  • You’ll get involved in our drive towards social progress where possible. Whether that’s getting involved in one of our community projects or simply buying local when travelling with the company.

Key Skills:

  • Excellent Dutch language skills (written and spoken)
  • Previous experience working within an inside sales role or cold calling role
  • Excellent people management skills and an ability to drive sales results
  • Good knowledge of CRM skills, ideally Salesforce or Hubspot
  • Ability to create engaging content on social media channels (LinkedIn)

CTS Culture:

Over the last 10+ years our open culture has been the backbone of our growth. We’ve nurtured an environment that empowers our people to get the job done. Meanwhile, we invest in their education, development, and - whether for family, mental health or other reasons - we give the flexibility to maintain a real work-life balance.

We strive to progress our industry as a whole and are using the B Corporation framework to continuously build on how we can treat our employees, community and environment with respect. We’re excited to see the progress we can collectively make.

Over the coming years we want to become the number one dedicated Global Partner for Google Cloud. To get there we’re growing and building talented teams ready to change the world using Google technologies. So if you’re passionate, curious and keen to get stuck in - Get in touch and join us for the ride!

Location:

You can decide to work out of our office in Central Utrecht, or you can work from home primarily if that is your preference. You may also have occasional meetings at customer sites around the Netherlands.

Benefits:

  • Competitive Salary
  • Private healthcare scheme
  • Company contributed pension
  • Flexible working culture
  • Unlimited paid holidays - We don’t restrict you to your annual quota
  • Bi-annual company events, an opportunity to meet colleagues you don’t see every day (post-covid)
  • Regular opportunities to attain industry recognised training and certifications
  • Opportunity to develop within a fast growing tech business with ambitious year on year growth trajectory
  • High spec equipment (laptops, phones, etc.)

About CTS:

Cloud Technology Solutions (CTS) is the largest dedicated Google Cloud practice in Europe and one of the world’s leading cloud transformation experts. We offer a unique full stack Google Cloud solution for businesses, encompassing cloud migration, transformative working and IT infrastructure, through to machine learning, big data and app development.

We are trusted by many well-known businesses, government and education establishments around the world. We have appeared in Deloitte’s UK Tech Fast 50, Sunday Times Top Track 100, and were recognised within the Deloitte Fast 500 EMEA and Northern Tech awards. We are also proud holders of 2021 Google Awards for both Workspace and GCP.

We have a brilliant team of more than 230 people in offices in Manchester, Edinburgh, London and Utrecht, as well as across our globally remote workforce. We’re still growing, and that means we need more brilliant people who share our ambition to join our team.

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks full pay, followed by 13 weeks statutory
Enhanced paternity leave – 5 weeks to be taken within first 2 years (not more than 2 weeks in any 6month period)
Adoption leave – 26 weeks full pay, followed by 13 weeks statutory
Shared parental leave
Work from anywhere scheme – work overseas for up to 3 months in any 12 month period.
Unlimited annual leave
Enhanced sick pay – 10 paid sick days per annum
Pregnancy loss leave
Teambuilding days
Teambuilding holidays
Dog friendly office
Dog friendly co-working space
Open to part time work for some roles
Enhanced sick days
Health insurance
Dental coverage
Mental health platform access
Gym membership
Compassionate leave
Birthday off
Cycle to work scheme
Faith rooms
Life assurance
Matched pension contribution
Volunteer days
Personal development days
Personal development budgets
Company wide holidays/offsites
L&D budget
Financial coaching
Charity donation scheme
Lunch and learns
Employee assistance programme
Skilled worker visas
Employee discounts
Core benefits such as Company Contributed Pensions and Private Health Insurance with a fully comprehensive mental health support package, plus dental and optical reimbursements.
Opportunities to be involved with our DEI and Environmental Boards who strive to pave the way not just in our company but in our industry, making a real difference.
Investment in you - We'll pay for certifications, and give you paid time off to study or attend interesting events.
Location
96%
Employees are very happy with their working location freedom
Hours
91%
Employees are very happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
83%
Employees are very happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
85%
Employees feel that they can find the perfect balance of life and work
Role modelling
91%
Employees feel that flexible working is part of the culture
Autonomy
93%
Employees feel they have complete autonomy over getting their work done

Working at CTS & CloudM

Company employees

290

Gender diversity (male:female)

65:35

Office locations

Manchester (Head Office), London, Edinburgh and Utrecht

Hiring Countries

Netherlands
United Kingdom

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