Drive business growth and ensure customer success as a Business Development Executive at Halter in the Waikato region.
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The Business Development Executive at Halter is responsible for driving growth and ensuring customer satisfaction within the agricultural sector by executing sales strategies and building strong relationships with farmers. This role requires a proactive approach, focusing on both expanding the customer base and optimizing the sales process, utilizing skills in lead generation and pipeline management. Ideal candidates will have a background in farm systems or agriculture, along with a strong sales acumen and a passion for helping farmers succeed. Halter's team is characterized by a commitment to meaningful work and a culture that embraces challenges.
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As a Business Development Executive at Halter, you will play a critical role in driving business growth and ensuring customer success within your designated territory. You will be responsible for executing sales strategies, building strong customer relationships, and meeting ambitious growth targets, all while acting as Halter’s on-the-ground representative. This role requires a proactive and hands-on approach, with a focus on both expansion and long-term customer satisfaction.
In this role, you will prioritise daily efforts that optimise growth performance and drive value for your customers. Working closely with cross-functional teams, including Product, Support, and other regional sales teams, you’ll share field insights to ensure Halter’s technology continues to meet the needs of farmers. Your contributions will directly support Halter’s mission to support 50% of the world's habitable landmass to be more productive and sustainable.
This role is based in the Waikato region and will require travel.
These requirements are fundamental for this role.
A deep passion for helping farmers succeed. Experience in farm systems or within the agricultural sector.
A hunter. Someone who is driven to exceed goals in a sales role. Experience in growing new business, owning the end-to-end sales cycle from lead generation to close.
Passion and enthusiastic people. Attitude and potential are extremely important to us.
A phenomenal attitude and a team player with the ability to consistently overcome challenges.
A Hunter with a never-say-never attitude.
A deep passion for helping farmers succeed.
A phenomenal attitude and a team player with the ability to consistently overcome challenges.
The ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced working environment with a high degree of autonomy.
A hunger for success and personal growth to be able to evolve quickly alongside a world-class sales team.
On-farm sales meetings: Understanding the needs and problems of your prospects then clearly communicating functionality, benefits and highlighting value relative to each farming operation.
Prospecting: Building and growing a pipeline of quality farms fit for Halter, while continuously reducing sales cycle times. Managing newly sourced and inbound leads through the initial stages of the pipeline including screening and qualifying.
Networking: Building and leveraging industry relationships to establish and maintain Halter's brand.
Forecasting: Working with the Regional Sales Manager to enable monthly and quarterly forecasting of revenue.
Growth initiatives: Working with the Regional Sales Manager to optimise and evolve the sales process to become faster, more efficient, and more predictable as the company scales.
Other duties as required from time to time.
Work that genuinely matters. Every now and again a company comes along that transforms an entire industry and leaves the world in a better place. Our team gets to be part of something truly meaningful, helping farmers improve their livelihoods, spend more time with their families, and build more sustainable operations.
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