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Voyager Portal

Voyager Portal

Sales & Business Development
London, UK
Posted 6+ months ago

What is Voyager?

Voyager is helping the world's largest commodity and energy companies transform their bulk marine shipping. Our technology provides customers with an end-to-end SaaS solution for managing the lifecycle of a Voyager from planning through to execution and claims.

The company is leveraging the latest technologies including GenerativeAI, Machine Learning, and no-code applications to deliver a world-class product trusted by Fortune 50 companies.

Voyager has raised over $10m in VC funding from groups including Flexport Ventures, ScOp Ventures, Phaze Ventures and ATX Ventures.

About the role:

Every day in a fast-growing startup is different and the pace of change can be rapid. During your time at Voyager your role will include a range of responsibilities:

Industry and product knowledge

  • Stay tuned on industry trends to increase your credibility in front of customers. This may include attending conferences, networking events, reading industry publications, and taking part in case studies
  • Invest time in understanding how existing Voyager customers are leveraging the platform to create value
  • Learning about our Demurrage and Voyage Management products

Generate leads

  • Prospecting into assigned target accounts and identify new accounts
  • Contacting leads in order to qualify their suitability and readiness for Voyager.
  • Booking meetings with prospects and existing customers

Building relationships with prospects and closing deals

  • Develop a market strategy to convert your target accounts to customers
  • Conducting thorough discovery with your prospects’ to determine pain points.
  • Run customer demonstrations and map the organisations key stakeholders and running product demonstrations that will connect them to the values of our solution.
  • Support Pre-sales in developing implementation plans, success metrics and deployment plans that align with the customer's unique business needs
  • Partnering with Pre-Sales architects in overseeing any technical validation, trials, or proof of concepts, that may be required to ensure the effectiveness of Voyager.
  • Lead contract negotiations and close deals within your market
  • Ensure a smooth handover to the Customer Experience team
  • Maintain close contact with client to ensure they are getting value from the platform

Continuous improvement

  • Maintain robust data in the CRM to support sales forecasting
  • Contribute to the product and marketing team to ensure the product continuously improves
  • Continuously evaluate your performance and work with your manager to identify development areas

About you:

At Voyager, we believe it’s your skills and attributes that ultimately make you successful in a role. Here’s what we’re looking for:

  • Consultative selling - relying on proven sales methodologies, you take a strategic and structured approach to identifying new business opportunities, engaging internal and client stakeholders, and closing deals.
  • Influential - you are highly credible and able to engage internal and external stakeholders and align them to a common vision.
  • Discovery - you are curious about the people you speak with, you ask intelligent questions that result in meaningful insights, you probe in a way that leads people to step outside their mindset, you unearth pain points and elicit new ideas.
  • Storytelling - you are able to capture your audience’s attention, keep them engaged, establish a connection, and build trust.
  • Explaining - you can present a subject matter in a simplified way, that enables your audience to both understand it, and relay it back to others.
  • Coachability - you have the ability to adapt and improve as required.

We think you’ll likely have these skills and attributes if you have the following experience:

  • You are a high performer who has consistently over-achieved or been in the top 10% of your team
  • You have been selling SaaS products to corporate or enterprise clients
  • You are comfortable working many deals at the same time and following a land-and-expand strategy

Compensation and benefits:

  • £50,000 to £60,000 base salary + quarterly commissions
  • Stock options
  • Healthcare
  • Technology allowance
  • Annual all-hands event. Previous locations have included Lisbon, Panama, Buenos Aires and Houston

What you can expect from the interview process

This is what a typical hiring process with us for this position looks like:

● Submit application

● Online Assessment - we will send you a 30-minute online assessment to complete

● 1st Interview - You'll meet one of our internal stakeholders for an initial interview

● Hiring Manager Interview - You'll meet your potential hiring manager and understand

more about the job, challenges and expectations. We'll further assess you for your

experience and skills.

● Panel Interview - You'll meet a few other internal stakeholders who will work with you on

a daily basis. This interview will help us and you verify the cultural fit between the

company and your profile, as well as provide you with more insights into the role.

● Reference Checks - We will ask you to share a few contacts of people that have worked

with you for a professional reference check.

● Offer