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virtual7

Inside Sales Specialist

Sales OperationsUpdated on Nov 13
Full-timeKarlsruhe, GermanyNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Completed commercial vocational training, such as office management or sales training, or a completed degree in economics/business studies.
  • Several years of professional experience in inside sales, sales support, or a comparable position.
  • Practical experience operationally managing sales processes, particularly opportunities, customer relationship management systems, and creating and following up on offers.
  • Knowledge of offer and sales processes and how structured, reliable process support contributes to sales success.
  • Understanding of commercial relationships and ability to learn complex administrative processes.
  • Confident use of modern artificial intelligence applications such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Microsoft Copilot, and willingness to work digitally.
  • Confident use of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel.
  • Comfort communicating with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders, with a strong service orientation.
  • Ability to work independently, carefully, and solution-oriented while keeping track of multiple parallel topics.
  • Very good German and good English language skills.

Responsibilities

  • Qualify incoming project inquiries and advance them together with the sales team.
  • Communicate with customers and partners by telephone and in writing, and support the development and maintenance of long-term business relationships.
  • Create offers, coordinate their review, and support the full opportunity-to-order process.
  • Maintain opportunities, customer contacts, and sales activities in customer relationship management systems, ensuring high data quality and transparent sales processes.
  • Prepare profiles of IT specialists and project-related documents, and support the creation of customer-specific offers and concepts.
  • Work closely with Partner Delivery Management and coordinate commercial and administrative processes related to assignments of external IT specialists.
  • Support contract management, service billing, reporting, and other administrative processes in project-based services.
  • Conduct analyses and status checks, monitor open items, and provide transparency into ongoing sales activities.
  • Identify opportunities to improve sales processes and contribute ideas for their further development.
  • Use modern artificial intelligence applications such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Microsoft Copilot to improve process efficiency and productivity.

Desired Qualifications

  • Professional experience in IT services, project work, or a professional-services environment.
  • Understanding of project-based services and collaboration among sales, customers, partners, and external specialists.
  • Experience working with freelancers, external service providers, or staffing agencies.
  • Knowledge of the Microsoft 365 sales environment.
  • Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations.
  • Initial experience with contract management and service billing.

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