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Entry Level Sales Associate
Job description
Entry Level Agency Recruiter/Business Development Associate:
- $70k-75k OTE year 1, $101k OTE year 2, $151k year 3
- Sales experience or internship preferred
- No Life Science experience needed
Meet is a global, Life Sciences focused recruitment company founded in London, with offices in New York City, San Francisco, San Diego, Raleigh, and Berlin. Our clients range across the world's top Medical Device, Diagnostic, Pharmaceutical, and Biotechnology companies. After multiple record breaking years in a row, we're looking to continue this success through 2023.
Here at Meet, we strive to grow, develop, and support all of our recruiters so everyone can see success in their professional and personal lives. With the right combination of work ethic, people skills, self-drive, and our learning and development program, Meet DNA, you can see success through promotion, leadership responsibilities, and commission.
We are able to offer an autonomous work environment, where our employees are trusted to do what is expected of them. No micromanagement, just recruitment.
Meet’s Values: Positivity, Integrity, Creativity, Success, and Quality
Agency recruiting is sales, with a twist. But why?
- It's a more personalized approach. You're selling career opportunities to individuals.
- In traditional sales, you're selling a product. In this position, you're selling your services, job opportunities, clients, and Meet
- Engaging in business development activities, lead generation, and account management
- With hands-on support, you will source multiple candidates utilizing cold calls, our CRM database, LinkedIn Recruiter, Job Adverts, referrals, and more
- Through your daily activities, your goal is to grow your network and pipeline through sales outreach practices and strategies
- Building rapport with candidates and clients, asking the right questions to better sell your services and clients into your network
- This is a more holistic take on sales however you are still working towards metrics and targets. You see results, successes, and growth from the hard work you're putting in daily
What is Meet looking for within their entry-level recruiters?
- Someone with an entrepreneurial mindset and wants to work within a more personalized area
- Someone that is hungry to succeed, grow and have a successful career
- Ambition and a previous history of success in any environment, a "go-getter"
- A person that is able to naturally network and engage with people from various backgrounds
- An ability to work both independently and as well as within a team
- Someone who thrives in working towards goals and targets while building long-lasting relationships with candidates and clients
What is the role of an entry-level recruiter/sales associate?
- Working in a face-paced role in which you will be interacting with numerous hiring managers, assisting them with their staffing needs
- Source multiple candidates utilizing cold calls, LinkedIn Recruiter, Job Adverts, and referrals
- Become an expert in the Life Sciences industry while becoming a matchmaker for clients and candidates for open positions.
- Delivering a superb candidate experience that begins with the initial phone call all the way through delivering and closing the offer
- Acting as a representative on behalf of Meet and our global clients in order to attract and maintain the best talent in the industry
- Using social media, networking events, job adverts, headhunting and referrals to uncover high-quality candidates to fill live roles
Compensation, Benefits, and Incentives:
Meet offers a base salary of $50,000 with unlimited earning potential through our non-threshold and uncapped commission structure. After your first 3 deals, you will receive a promotion and a $5k pay increase (average promotion time is 6 months). First Year OTE $70k-$75k. Second year OTE $101k. Third year OTE $151k. Additional benefits include:
- Healthcare, Dental, Vision, 401(k)
- Generous PTO package includes the week off between Christmas and New Year’s and a free day off for your birthday!
- Meet DNA, our award-winning training program to help everyone at all levels achieve their goals and ensure growth with a clear promotion path
- The opportunity to be a part of a young, energetic, ambitious team that will offer support throughout your career
Performance-based incentives:
- All expense-paid monthly incentives to 5-star and Michelin-star restaurants
- Vacations to Ibiza, Rio, Antigua, or Miami
- Experience days where we give you $500 and additional PTO to do whatever you want and experience life
- Extra days of PTO, expensed dinners and lunches, gift cards to your favorite shops, late start and early finish, and much more
Our success in Life Sciences:
- Life Sciences is extremely resilient. We had 9 consecutive record breaking quarters of revenue growth from 2020-2022
- In 2021 a private equity firm invested in us
- 2022 we signed over 200 clients as a global business
- In 2023 our contract team reached a record number of runners out
- Life Science companies and Technology companies have grown strong partnerships over the past couple of years, making San Diego one of the fastest growing hub's in Life Sciences
Do you have the following?
- Bachelor's Degree (preferred)
- Sales experience (preferred)
- Collaborated in a team-oriented environment
If you think you have what it takes to start a career as a recruiter with one of the top life science companies in the industry, apply now!
E: jonathan.arth@peoplewithchemistry.com