Sales & Customer Success Global (1001+ employees)

Business Development Representative at Global

OCEAN+ profile for BDRs: intensive outbound prospecting, qualified lead generation, and high-volume conversation opening.

Must be able to sell upward to HQ in addition to managing local markets

High emotional resilience is the strongest predictor of success in global sales

Fluent English with commercial and financial vocabulary is a baseline requirement

Generic profile Startup (1-50 employees) SMB (51-200 employees) Enterprise (201-1000 employees)

Ideal OCEAN+ Profile

Openness 57 Conscientiousness 84 Extraversion 87 Agreeableness 67 Emotional Stability 69 Structure & Rhythm 60
Ideal range
Openness
47 67

At global corporations (1001+ employees), openness to trying new channels and sales strategies

Conscientiousness
75 92

At global corporations (1001+ employees), discipline in pipeline management and follow-up

Extraversion
78 95

At global corporations (1001+ employees), the energy to build relationships and close deals

Agreeableness
57 77

At global corporations (1001+ employees), the balance between assertive persuasion and active listening

Emotional Stability
60 77

At global corporations (1001+ employees), resilience in the face of constant rejection and long sales cycles

Structure & Rhythm
50 70

At global corporations (1001+ employees), building long-term relationships with clients

Strengths and Red Flags

Strengths

  • Discipline in high-volume outreach cadences
  • Creativity to personalize messages and sequences
  • Adapting negotiation style and value proposition to local market and culture
  • Managing sales teams distributed across multiple time zones with process consistency

Red Flags

  • Vanity metrics: lots of activity, few qualified meetings
  • Copy-pasting templates without real personalization
  • Assumes a sales model that works in one market translates directly to another
  • Centralizes decisions without empowering local sales leaders

Interview Questions

Describe your best outbound sequence that generated qualified meetings. Which channels did you use, how many steps did it have, and what was the conversion rate?

Evaluates: Conscientiousness and Openness

Tell me about a prospect who took 4 months to respond. How did you stay in touch without becoming spam? Did you improvise each touch or follow a fixed cadence?

Evaluates: Emotional Stability and Structure & Rhythm

In which markets outside your own have you sold directly? What adaptations did you make?

Evaluates: Cultural intelligence and real tactical adaptation

How do you manage the tension between standardizing the sales process and giving local teams autonomy?

Evaluates: Balance between control and decentralization

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This Role in Other Contexts

Generic profile

Business Development Representative — base profile with no company context

View profile → Startup (1-50 employees)

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View profile → SMB (51-200 employees)

In LATAM SMBs, the Sales Manager reports directly to the owner or CEO

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In LATAM enterprise, personal relationships remain decisive

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