# Business Development Representative (BDR)

**Company**: Thomson Reuters
**Location**: Dubai, Dubai
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Sales
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Are you motivated to launch your career in a high-energy, competitive environment with a leading technology company? Our Business Development Representative (BDR) position will prepare you for an exciting and rewarding career in the highly competitive software sales arena.

You will gain hands-on experience sourcing and qualifying leads within our Tax & Legal businesses while building product knowledge and sales skills. You will work with a market leader and partner with a world-class sales organization to prospect across a wide range of legal, corporate, and government entities, promoting industry-recognized cloud solutions.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Meet or exceed monthly and annual targets and maintain consistently strong performance against YTD goals.

- Meet or exceed daily contact targets and activity metrics.

- Actively engage in coaching, partnering with managers and team members to share ideas and learn from one another.

- Accurately and promptly log all activities and customer contacts in Salesforce.

- Consistently demonstrate Thomson Reuters culture and values.

- Demonstrate agility in rapidly learning new knowledge and acquiring new skills.

- Remain effective under pressure, maintaining stable performance while managing time pressure, ambiguity, and stress professionally.

- Demonstrate tenacity, determination, persistence, patience, and resilience in the face of adversity.

- Be receptive to change and demonstrate openness and willingness to adapt behavior in response to new situations.

- Partner creatively with sales and marketing team members to develop campaigns that generate highly qualified sales opportunities and convert them into revenue.

**Required Qualifications**

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Strong interpersonal skills with a personable and professional approach.

- Ability to conduct yourself in a professional manner.

- Ability and willingness to quickly learn new concepts, products, and skills.

- Commitment to a schedule that coincides with customers' working hours.

- Intermediate computer skills and the ability to navigate Microsoft applications and other business software.

- Motivated and competitive, with a positive attitude and results-oriented mindset.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree.

- Previous experience as a Business Development Representative (BDR), Sales Development Representative (SDR), or in a similar sales or lead-generation role.

- Previous experience selling tax-related software, technology, SaaS, or other solutions to tax and accounting professionals.

- Tax-related professional experience or knowledge of tax and accounting workflows, processes, or customer needs.

- Previous experience using a CRM system such as Salesforce.

**What's in it For You?**

- Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset.

- Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions.

- Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

## Skills

### Required
- verbal and written communication
- interpersonal skills
- Microsoft applications
- time management
- adaptability

### Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree
- BDR/SDR experience
- tax-related software experience
- CRM system experience

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